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Gabriel Cramer

1704 - 1752

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Gabriel Cramer (French: [kʁamɛʁ]; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752) was a Genevan mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Cramer is the 118th most popular mathematician (down from 95th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 56th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Gabriel Cramer is most famous for his work on the Cramer-Rao Bound, which is a fundamental theorem in statistics that gives an upper bound on the variance of estimators.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gabriel Cramer ranks 118 out of 1,004. Before him are Ctesibius, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, George Green, Leonid Kantorovich, Alexander Friedmann, and William Oughtred. After him are Christopher Clavius, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Barrow, G. H. Hardy, Nicomachus, and Brook Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Gabriel Cramer ranks 1. After him are Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Tahmasp II, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, John Kay, Hans Hermann von Katte, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Johann Andreas Segner, and Louis de Jaucourt. Among people deceased in 1752, Gabriel Cramer ranks 1. After him are Louis, Duke of Orléans, Henriette of France, Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Antonio Corradini, Giulio Alberoni, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Jean François de Troy, Jacopo Amigoni, Joseph Butler, and Pietro Grimani.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gabriel Cramer ranks 67 out of 1,015. Before him are Michel Mayor (1942), Johannes Itten (1888), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Werner Arber (1929), Hans Küng (1928), and Ferdinand Hodler (1853). After him are Emil Jannings (1884), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Max Frisch (1911), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Siegfried Wagner (1869), and Alejo Carpentier (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Gabriel Cramer ranks 4. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), and Johann Bernoulli (1667). After him are Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710).

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