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  1. 1588-1648. French mathematician and
  2. philosopher who, from his base in Paris, did
  3. much to disseminate throughout Europe the
  4. main advances of French science. In
  5. mathematics he defined a particular form of
  6. prime number, since referred to as a Mersenne
  7. prime.
  8.