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Alexis Fontaine des Bertins

Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.

Life
Fontaine was born in Claveyson, Dauphiné. He first got a taste for maths by reading the ''Géométrie de l'infini'' of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1733. He died, aged 67, in Cuiseaux. == Publications ==
Publications
• ''Mémoires donnés à l'Académie royale des sciences, non imprimés dans leur temps'' (1764) • ''Traité de calcul différentiel et intégral, par M. Fontaine, de l'Académie royale des sciences, pour servir de suite aux mémoires de la même Académie'' (1770) ==Sources==
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