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Antoine Gombaud

1607 - 1684

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Antoine Gombaud, alias Chevalier de Méré, (1607 – 29 December 1684) was a French writer, born in Poitou. Although he was not a nobleman, he adopted the title chevalier (knight) for the character in his dialogues who represented his own views (chevalier de Méré because he was educated at Méré). Later his friends began calling him by that name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Gombaud is the 372nd most popular mathematician (down from 352nd in 2019), the 2,360th most popular biography from France (up from 2,509th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Antoine Gombaud ranks 372 out of 1,004. Before him are Shiing-Shen Chern, Martin Davis, Lars Hörmander, Zhu Shijie, Daina Taimiņa, and Sergei Sobolev. After him are Vladimir Drinfeld, Michael Maestlin, László Lovász, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, John Milnor, and Raymond Smullyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, Antoine Gombaud ranks 11. Before him are Jan Lievens, Infante Carlos of Spain, Wenceslaus Hollar, Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Paul Gerhardt, and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. After him are Akile Hatun, Zhu Yousong, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Antonio Barberini, Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, and Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst. Among people deceased in 1684, Antoine Gombaud ranks 11. Before him are Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Nicola Amati, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Anne Gonzaga, Josefa de Óbidos, and Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Johann Rosenmüller, Caspar Netscher, Maria d'Este, Alvise Contarini, and Gonzales Coques.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Gombaud ranks 2,360 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), Sarah Kofman (1934), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Olivier Assayas (1955), and Micheline Presle (1922). After him are Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), and Thomas Merton (1915).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Antoine Gombaud ranks 62. Before him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), and Paul Émile Appell (1855). After him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Guillaume Postel (1510), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786).

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