Nicolas Guisnée From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia French mathematician Application de l'algebre a la geometrie, 1733 Nicolas Guisnée (died 2 September 1718) was a French mathematician. He studied mathematics with Nicolas Malebranche and was a protégé of Guillaume de l'Hôpital. Engineer of the king, he was a royal professor of mathematics at the college of maître Gervais. François Nicole, Pierre Rémond de Montmort, Émilie du Châtelet and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are some of his students.[1] He was named "associé géomètre" at the Royal Academy of Sciences on 15 January 1707.[2] He died in Paris. Works Guisnée, Nicolas (1733). Application de l'algebre a la geometrie (in French). Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau. References ↑ "Frauke Böttcher, Das mathematische und naturphilosophische Lernen und Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet (1706–1749)". ↑ "Institut de France Académie des sciences. Les membres du passé dont le nom commence par G". Authority control databases InternationalISNIVIAFWorldCatNationalGermanyUnited StatesFranceBnF dataNetherlandsBelgiumPeopleDeutsche BiographieOtherIdRef Related Articles