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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

1786 - 1856

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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (French: [binɛ]; 2 February 1786 – 12 May 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important contributions by Cayley and others. In his memoir on the theory of the conjugate axis and of the moment of inertia of bodies he enumerated the principle now known as Binet's theorem. He is also recognized as the first to describe the rule for multiplying matrices in 1812, and Binet's formula expressing Fibonacci numbers in closed form is named in his honour, although the same result was known to Abraham de Moivre a century earlier. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Philippe Marie Binet is the 410th most popular mathematician (up from 451st in 2019), the 2,650th most popular biography from France (up from 3,087th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 410 out of 1,004. Before him are Karl Menger, Jean Dieudonné, Christian Kramp, Johann Benedict Listing, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, and Edmund Gunter. After him are Gilles de Roberval, Ernesto Cesàro, Oscar Zariski, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and Roger Cotes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 28. Before him are Ludwig Börne, Nathaniel Wallich, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William George Horner, and Gaspar del Bufalo. After him are Nicolás Bravo, Winfield Scott, Marc Seguin, Joachim Lelewel, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, and Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol. Among people deceased in 1856, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 31. Before him are Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Julie Guicciardi, Augustin Thierry, Pyotr Chaadayev, Georgios Sinas, and William Buckland. After him are Emil Aarestrup, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, and Karel Havlíček Borovský.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 2,650 out of 6,770. Before him are Pascal Bruckner (1948), Daniel Revenu (1942), Jacques Cœur (1395), André Téchiné (1943), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), and Patrice Leconte (1947). After him are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Gilbert Simondon (1924), Augustin Pajou (1730), Jean-Delphin Alard (1815), Jacques de Vitry (1170), and Louison Bobet (1925).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 68. Before him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Guillaume Postel (1510), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Jean Dieudonné (1906), and Christian Kramp (1760). After him are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jacques Ozanam (1640), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Yves Meyer (1939), and Ismaël Bullialdus (1605).

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