Gabriel Cramer
Gabriel Cramer (born 31 July 1704 in Geneva, died January 4, 1752) is a Swiss mathematician and physicist, a student of Johann Bernoulli (published his work), a professor at the University of Geneva.
The author of works on the theory of determinants (Cramer's patterns), mathematical analysis, algebraic curve theory (among others studied the properties of the so-called devil curve) and the history of mathematics. In 1728 he proposed the solution of the Petersburg paradox. In 1750 he gave formulas (previously discovered by Colin Maclaurin as early as 1729) expressing the solution of the system of equations by means of determinants. Authoritative control (person):
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