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Henri Poincaré

1854 - 1912

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Jules Henri Poincaré (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃ʁi pwɛ̃kaʁe] ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. He has further been called "the Gauss of modern mathematics". Due to his success in science, along with his influence and philosophy, he has been called "the philosopher par excellence of modern science". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Poincaré is the 20th most popular mathematician (down from 19th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from France (up from 128th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Mathematician.

Henri Poincaré is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He is credited with laying the foundations of topology and introducing the Poincaré conjecture, which was one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics until it was solved by Grigori Perelman in 2003.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henri Poincaré ranks 20 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, Jacob Bernoulli, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Évariste Galois, and Hero of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Henri Poincaré ranks 4. Before him are Pope Benedict XV, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Rimbaud. After him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, and James George Frazer. Among people deceased in 1912, Henri Poincaré ranks 2. Before him is Emperor Meiji. After him are Joseph Lister, Robert Falcon Scott, August Strindberg, Thomas Andrews, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Beernaert, Jules Massenet, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, and Frederick VIII of Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Poincaré ranks 110 out of 6,770. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Louis the Pious (778), Pope Urban V (1310), Pope Clement VI (1291), and Madame de Pompadour (1721). After him are Pope John XXII (1244), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Marquis de Sade (1740), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Pope Innocent VI (1282), and Anatole France (1844).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Henri Poincaré ranks 4. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717). After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

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