Maupertuis, Pierre Louis (1698-1759)

Maupertius was a French mathematician and philsopher who served as the Director of the Academie des Sciences and the President of the Prussian Academy of Science. His principle of least action states that in all natural phenomena action tends to be minimized.

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	Date: 9/5/1986 Location: Paris, France