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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

was born 326 years ago

28 September 1698

Pierre-Louis Maupertuis was a French mathematician who is most famous for formulating the principle of least action.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maupertuis/