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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