Michel Rolle

Michel Rolle (April 21, 1652 - November 8, 1719) was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He also invented the current standardized notation

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:sqrt{x}

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to denote the nth root of x.

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Rolle was born in Ambert, Basse-Auvergne. In 1675, he moved from Ambert to Paris and was elected in 1685 to join the Acad?mie Royale des Sciences and became a Pensionnaire G?ometre of the Acad?mie (1699). He had then already been given a pension by Jean-Baptiste Colbert after solving one of Jacques Ozanam's problems.

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