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The French naturalist Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is known to mathematicians for two contributions—a translation into French of Newton’s Method of Fluxions, and his “Essai d’arithmétique morale,” which appeared in 1777 in the fourth volume of a supplement to his celebrated multi-volume Histoire naturelle.
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Eves, H.W. (1997). In Mathematical Circles; A Selection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes (excerpt) (1969). In: Pi: A Source Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2736-4_43
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