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The 12 pages that link to Marin Mersenne, each with the reason it gives.

• René DescartesRelated: Mersenne circulated Descartes’s work and organized objections to the Meditations.

• Blaise PascalRelated: Mersenne’s circle helped circulate Pascal’s early mathematical work and experimental claims.

• AcousticsRelated: His measurements helped establish quantitative relationships among string length, tension, and pitch.

• Pierre de FermatRelated: Mersenne’s network helped circulate mathematical problems and results among Fermat’s contemporaries.

• BarometerRelated: He examined Torricelli's apparatus and helped spread knowledge of the experiment.

• Republic of LettersRelated: Mersenne connected scholars and helped circulate questions, results, and criticisms among them.

• Mersenne primeRelated: His 1644 work listed conjectured prime exponents for numbers of this form.

• Pierre GassendiRelated: Mersenne’s network helped circulate Gassendi’s work and brought him into contact with leading thinkers.

• Evangelista TorricelliRelated: Mersenne publicized Torricelli’s barometer experiments to the wider European scientific community.

• Perfect numberRelated: Testing numbers bearing his name became central to finding even perfect numbers.

• Girard DesarguesRelated: Mersenne’s circle circulated Desargues’s mathematical ideas.

• Catalan–Mersenne conjectureRelated: The conjecture iterates the operation associated with Mersenne numbers.