Charles-René Reynaud (or Reyneau), (1656, Brissac – 24 February 1728, Paris) was a French mathematician.
Biography
editA priest of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, father Reyneau was successively professor of philosophy at Toulon and Pézenas, and then of mathematics at the college of Angers. He was a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Angers and free associate of the French Academy of Sciences.
His Analyse démontrée is a collection of the main theories prevalent in works of (?) etc.; Reyneau added demonstrations or offered better ones.
Publications
edit- Analyse démontrée, ou la Méthode de résoudre les problèmes de mathématiques, Paris, 1708, 2 t., in one vol. in-4°
- Several editions online at Hathi Trust Digital Library, including la deuxième, Paris, Quillau, 1736-1738
- Science du calcul des grandeurs en général, ou Éléments de mathématiques, Paris, J. Quillau, 1714–35, 2 vol. in-4°, with figures
Sources
edit- Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire, vol.7, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1835, p. 567–8.