Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon d'Osangis (1724, Paris – 1767, Berlin) was a French

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

and writer. She was the daughter of the scientist

Jean Pigeon Jean Pigeon d'Osangis (born 1654, Donzy; died 1739) was a French physicist and mathematician, noted for the construction of planispheres. In the University of Wrocław's map collection, there survives one of only two remaining examples of a 7-cm t ...

. In 1744, she eloped with her teacher, mathematician

Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval André Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval was a French mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Charenton-le-Pont on 16 February 1716 and died in Berlin on 2 September 1764. In 1744, he was forced to flee France to Switzerland due to his criticism ...

, to

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, where they married, and then to Berlin. In 1752, she was a teacher of

princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (25 February 1726 – 8 October 1808) was a Prussian princess, married to Prince Henry of Prussia. Wilhelmina was the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel and Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt ...

Works

* ''Le méchaniste (sic) philosophe ou Mémoire contenant plusieurs particularités de la vie et des ouvrages du sieur Jean Pigeon on père La Haye, 1750.''

References

* Assézat, Œuvres complètes de Diderot. Paris, Garnier, 1875. Vol. 9, p. 77. * * 1724 births 1767 deaths French women mathematicians 18th-century French mathematicians 18th-century French women scientists 18th-century Prussian educators 18th-century Prussian women 18th-century French women {{France-mathematician-stub