Claude Mylon

Claude Mylon (1618 to 1660) was a French mathematician and lawyer who belonged to the Academie Parisienne, the circle of scholars that continued Marin Mersenne's group in Paris and became the foundation of the Academie des Sciences. He was the son of a counsellor to Louis XIII, trained in law and was admitted to the bar in 1641. He joined Mersenne's circle around 1645 and kept careful notes of its discussions. After the death of Le Pailleur in 1654 he held the correspondence of the academy and passed problems of Fermat and Frenicle de Bessy on to mathematicians in Holland, and he exchanged letters with van Schooten, Pascal and Roberval about games of chance. His own attempts at mathematics, such as the area of the Pearls of Sluze and the length of the cycloid arc, were unsuccessful, and his importance lies in his work as a communicator of other people's results.