Alexandre Savérien

{{short description|French mathematician}}

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Alexandre Julien Savérien (16 July 1720 – 3 May 1805) was a French mathematician who was also an expert in several other subject areas. He was born in Arles and became accomplished in both mathematics and naval engineering at a young age.{{Cite book |last1=Piaia |first1=Gregorio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FfprCgAAQBAJ |title=Models of the History of Philosophy: Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age |last2=Santinello |first2=Giovanni |date=2015-08-24 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-017-9966-9 |pages=98–115 |language=en}} in 1754, he published the Universal Dictionary of Mathematics and Physics and Histoire des philosophes modernes in 1773, where he named the nine greatest modern philosophers as Jakob Abbadie, Erasmus, Thomas Hobbes, Nicole, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Bayle, Clarke, and Collins.{{Cite book |last=Holland |first=Jocelyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwGPDwAAQBAJ |title=The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 |date=2019-05-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-5013-4607-1 |pages=20 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Nakhimovsky |first=Isaac |date=January 2003 |title=The Enlightened Epicureanism of Jacques Abbadie: L'Art de se connoı^tre soi-même and the morality of self-interest |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/S0191-6599%2802%2900092-X |journal=History of European Ideas |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1016/S0191-6599(02)00092-X |s2cid=171058718 |issn=0191-6599}} He later became a member of the Academy of Lyon.