MATHEMATICIAN

Edmond Laguerre

1834 - 1886

Photo of Edmond Laguerre

Icon of person Edmond Laguerre

Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (9 April 1834, Bar-le-Duc – 14 August 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician and a member of the Académie des sciences (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Laguerre is the 683rd most popular mathematician (up from 687th in 2019), the 4,017th most popular biography from France (up from 4,185th in 2019) and the 97th most popular French Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Edmond Laguerre by language

Loading...

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edmond Laguerre ranks 683 out of 1,004. Before him are John Hadley, Jean Bourgain, Thoralf Skolem, Julius Petersen, Nilakantha Somayaji, and Egon Pearson. After him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Ken Ribet, Friedrich Waismann, Roy Kerr, Jerzy Różycki, and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande.

Most Popular Mathematicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Edmond Laguerre ranks 72. Before him are Vilém Blodek, Franz Steindachner, Hermann Usener, Étienne Laspeyres, Valtazar Bogišić, and Friedrich Tietjen. After him are John Wesley Powell, Lyuben Karavelov, Miguel Grau Seminario, Georg Hermann Quincke, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, and Felix Dahn. Among people deceased in 1886, Edmond Laguerre ranks 42. Before him are Pyotr Tkachev, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Ivan Aksakov, Leopold Zunz, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, and Richard Dadd. After him are Paul Bert, Jules Malou, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Winfield Scott Hancock, Tomás Villalba, and Eduard Oscar Schmidt.

Others Born in 1834

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1886

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 4,017 out of 6,770. Before him are Pascal Lainé (1942), Claude Dauphin (1903), Eugène Lanti (1879), Jean de Brunhoff (1899), Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1842), and Paul César Helleu (1859). After him are Pierre Montet (1885), François Heutte (1938), Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Ochs (1883), and François de Créquy (1625).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 97. Before him are René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Pierre-Louis Lions (1956). After him are Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), Charles Dupin (1784), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Victor Puiseux (1820), and Paul Montel (1876).

French born Mathematicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous