Étienne d'Espagnet (born c. 1596) was the son of parliamentary counselor
Jean d'Espagnet Jean d'Espagnet (1564 – c. 1637) was a French The Renaissance, Renaissance polymath. He was a lawyer and politician, a mathematician and Alchemy, alchemist, an antiquarian, poet and friend of French literati.
D'Espagnet was a counsellor in the Pa ...
and Charlotte De Mangeau. He became a parliamentary counselor in 1617. He married in 1629 and had a son in 1634.
He was friends with
Viète and
Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (; ; 17 August 1601 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his d ...
.
d'Espagnet shared mathematical interest with Fermat and was the recipient of at least some of Fermat's mathematical papers.
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1590s births
French political people
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