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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

1789 - 1857

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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (UK: KOH-shee, KOW-shee, US: koh-SHEE; French: [oɡystɛ̃ lwi koʃi]; 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus (thereby creating real analysis), pioneered the field complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. Cauchy also contributed to a number of topics in mathematical physics, notably continuum mechanics. A profound mathematician, Cauchy had a great influence over his contemporaries and successors; Hans Freudenthal stated: "More concepts and theorems have been named for Cauchy than for any other mathematician (in elasticity alone there are sixteen concepts and theorems named for Cauchy)." Cauchy was a prolific worker; he wrote approximately eight hundred research articles and five complete textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustin-Louis Cauchy is the 39th most popular mathematician (down from 36th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from France (down from 215th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Mathematician.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician who is most famous for his contributions to analysis, differential equations, and number theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 39 out of 1,004. Before him are Luca Pacioli, Niels Henrik Abel, Brahmagupta, Pope Sylvester II, Georg Cantor, and Apollonius of Perga. After him are John Napier, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Johann Bernoulli, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and Al-Battani.

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Among people born in 1789, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 2. Before him is Georg Ohm. After him are Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, William John Swainson, María Isabella of Spain, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Heinrich Schwabe. Among people deceased in 1857, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 2. Before him is Auguste Comte. After him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Carl Czerny, Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 234 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Michel Platini (1955), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Christian Dior (1905). After him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Richard II of England (1367), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Louis X of France (1289), and Nicéphore Niépce (1765).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 10. Before him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), and Pope Sylvester II (938). After him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), and Girard Desargues (1591).

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