Marin Mersenne (1588 – 1648) was a French Mathematician mainly now remembered for his work on a class of primes - Mersenne Primes.

However his major contribution to science was being at the centre of a network of exchange of information between scientists and Mathematicians at a time when no technical journals were published.

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