graded 15/15
french mathematician of the 17th century who did lots of cool stuff
read here on github (removed overleaf link because im using a local setup now but if youre thinking about starting out with latex then please use overleaf)
this paper contains:
- biography
- parents
- early life
- studies
- promotion
- mathematics
- character
- contributions to mathematics
- analysis
- optics
- stochastics
- dice problem
- problem of points
- number theory
- two square problem
- factorization method
- little theorem
- last theorem
everything is structured!
- sources are included in ./sources
- sections are in ./sections
- ./lib contains preamble, glossary, nomenclature (symbolverzeichnis in german) and some other temporary options
- ./img contains... well should be obvious
- brechung.ggb opens in geogebra and can exported as tikz (located in brechung.tex with small edits)
- factor_algorithm.nsd opens with structorizer
this project uses a package called dirtytalk, which is not available in miktex in the package installer (but readily available on overleaf), here are instructions on how to install it for miktex
- dl zip from
- compile with
latex dirtytalk.ins - make folder structure in home or root
TeXMFlocal\tex\latex\dirtytalk\dirtytalk.sty\latex\doc\dirtytalk
- add folder to miktex console for all users
- refresh fndb
edited using mainly overleaf and vscode with the latex-workshop extension
labels and references used with "fig:" prefix for pictures/figures, "sec:" for sections, "eq:" for equations
names (teachers and mine) are censored, first name is censored because our last names are actually more common than our first ones