Maupertuis P math

When1:  1744

When2:  1746

Who:    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis [Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de]

What:   mathematician

Where:  France

Detail: He lived 1698 to 1759 and developed dynamics maximizing-minimizing principle (principle of least action or least-action principle or principle of stationary action or stationary-action principle).

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