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Émilie du Châtelet

1706 - 1749

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French mathematician and physicist. Her most recognized achievement is her philosophical magnum opus, Institutions de Physique (Paris, 1740, first edition; Foundations of Physics). She then revised the text substantially for a second edition with the slightly modified title Institutions physiques (Paris, 1742). It circulated widely, generated heated debates, and was translated into German and Italian in 1743. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émilie du Châtelet is the 62nd most popular mathematician (down from 59th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from France (up from 422nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 62 out of 1,004. Before her are Friedrich Bessel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Marin Mersenne. After her are Ludolph van Ceulen, Girard Desargues, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Hermann Minkowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 2. Before her is Benjamin Franklin. After her are Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, John Dollond, John Baskerville, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and Giuseppe Asclepi. Among people deceased in 1749, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 1. After her are Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Alessandro Magnasco, Shahu I, Adel Shah, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Jan van Huysum, William Jones, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Matthias Bel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 419 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Claude Bernard (1813), James I of Aragon (1208), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783). After her are Alfred Kastler (1902), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Pierre Laval (1883), and Francis Poulenc (1899).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 15. Before her are Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Sophie Germain (1776), and Marin Mersenne (1588). After her are Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752).

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