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Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin

1866 - 1962

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Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas, baron de la Vallée Poussin (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ etjɛn ɡystav nikɔla baʁɔ̃ də la vale pusɛ̃]; 14 August 1866 – 2 March 1962) was a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for proving the prime number theorem. The King of Belgium ennobled him with the title of baron. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin is the 422nd most popular mathematician (up from 560th in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 493rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 422 out of 1,004. Before him are Roger Cotes, Jakow Trachtenberg, Daniele Barbaro, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Guido Fubini. After him are Ignazio Danti, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Maryam Mirzakhani, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and Yuri Manin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 58. Before him are Joel Hastings Metcalf, Johann Strauss III, Kazys Grinius, Elizabeth von Arnim, Gustav Cassel, and Kazimierz Twardowski. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Holger Nielsen, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Robert Broom, Roger Fry, and António José de Almeida. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 80. Before him are Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Louis Massignon, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, John Rimmer, Milan Vidmar, and Michel de Ghelderode. After him are Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Ahmad bin Yahya, Max Fabiani, Erik Scavenius, Ricardo Rodríguez, and Diego Martínez Barrio.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 342 out of 1,190. Before him are Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), Richilde, Countess of Hainaut (1100), Leo Joseph Suenens (1904), Henry of Ghent (1217), Dirk II, Count of Holland (901), and Achille Van Acker (1898). After him are René Jacobs (1946), Joseph Cardijn (1882), Gaston Eyskens (1905), Georges Theunis (1873), Jan Porcellis (1583), and Lambert Lombard (1505).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 5. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548), Victor D'Hondt (1841), Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), and Pierre Deligne (1944). After him are Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), and Elias M. Stein (1931).

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