François Nicole (23 December 1683 – 18 January 1758) was a French

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, born in

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and died there, who published his ''Traité du calcul des différences finies'' in 1717; it contains rules both for forming differences and for effecting the summation of given series. Besides this, in 1706 he wrote a work on

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s, especially spherical epicycloids; and in 1729 and 1731 he published memoirs on

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's essay on

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s of the third degree..

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1683 births 1758 deaths 18th-century French mathematicians Members of the French Academy of Sciences {{France-mathematician-stub