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Girard Desargues

1591 - 1661

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Girard Desargues (French: [ʒiʁaʁ dezaʁɡ]; 21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Girard Desargues is the 64th most popular mathematician (up from 110th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from France (up from 755th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Mathematician.

Girard Desargues was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work on projective geometry.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Girard Desargues ranks 64 out of 1,004. Before him are Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marin Mersenne, Émilie du Châtelet, and Ludolph van Ceulen. After him are Nikolai Lobachevsky, Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Gaspard Monge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1591, Girard Desargues ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa I, and Jusepe de Ribera. After him are Guercino, Louise de Marillac, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Alexandre de Rhodes, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Stanisław Koniecpolski, Valentin de Boulogne, Isabella of Savoy, and Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1661, Girard Desargues ranks 3. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin, and Shunzhi Emperor. After him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Shah Shuja, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Vasile Lupu, Murad Bakhsh, Jan Fyt, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, and Zheng Zhilong.

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In France

Among people born in France, Girard Desargues ranks 427 out of 6,770. Before him are Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Pierre Laval (1883), Francis Poulenc (1899), and Fernandel (1903). After him are André Derain (1880), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Antoine of Navarre (1518), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), and Arthur Honegger (1892).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Girard Desargues ranks 16. Before him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706). After him are Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Émile Picard (1856).

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