MATHEMATICIAN

Henri Brocard

1845 - 1922

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Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʁəne ʒɑ̃ batist ɑ̃ʁi bʁɔkaʁ]; 12 May 1845 – 16 January 1922) was a French meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Contemporary mathematician Nathan Court wrote that he, along with Émile Lemoine and Joseph Neuberg, was one of the three co-founders of modern triangle geometry. He was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and was an officer of the Légion d'honneur. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Brocard is the 523rd most popular mathematician (up from 557th in 2019), the 3,216th most popular biography from France (up from 3,625th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henri Brocard ranks 523 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre François Verhulst, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Viktor Sadovnichiy, Endre Szemerédi, Ernest William Brown, and Guðbrandur Þorláksson. After him are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Dennis Sullivan, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, David Mumford, Luis Caffarelli, and George David Birkhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Henri Brocard ranks 60. Before him are Gustave Ador, William, Prince of Wied, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, William Kingdon Clifford, and Àngel Guimerà. After him are Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Ivan Puluj, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Gustaf Cederström, Wilhelm von Bode, and Ulisse Dini. Among people deceased in 1922, Henri Brocard ranks 77. Before him are Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Christiaan de Wet, Heinrich Rubens, Kabayama Sukenori, and Viktor Kingissepp. After him are Bahaeddin Şakir, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Géza Gárdonyi, William J. Seymour, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Alexander Antonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Brocard ranks 3,216 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard de Prony (1755), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Simon Marmion (1425), Charles Rollin (1661), and Freya Stark (1893). After him are Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), René Daumal (1908), Auguste Vaillant (1861), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Henri Brocard ranks 79. Before him are Yves Meyer (1939), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Albert Girard (1595), Pierre Vernier (1580), and Pierre Wantzel (1814). After him are Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Jean Leray (1906), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517).

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