Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent

Jesuit, mathematician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1584

Place of Birth: Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1667

Profession: priest, professor, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (8 September 1584 Bruges – 5 June 1667 Ghent) was a Flemish Jesuit and mathematician.
He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum.