MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

1957 - 2016

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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (29 May 1957 – 3 September 2016) was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is the 651st most popular mathematician (up from 694th in 2019), the 3,906th most popular biography from France (up from 4,205th in 2019) and the 94th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ranks 651 out of 1,004Before him are Lev Schnirelmann, Edward Routh, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, and Alessandro Galilei. After him are Dai Zhen, Haskell Curry, William Burnside, Johan Jensen, Aleksey Krylov, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ranks 210Before him are Timothy Treadwell, Michael Foreman, Kevin Pollak, Jakob Nielsen, Tsai Ming-liang, and Goodluck Jonathan. After him are Carlos Renato Frederico, Nick Hornby, Ali Larijani, Serhii Plokhy, Kenji Kawai, and Eric S. Raymond. Among people deceased in 2016, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ranks 273Before him are Ioannis Grivas, Lupita Tovar, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Lúcio Lara, Sushil Koirala, and Bill Mollison. After him are László Sárosi, Yang Jiang, Alphons Egli, Pen Sovan, Garry Shandling, and Jimmy Bain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ranks 3,906 out of 6,770Before him are Jeanne Jugan (1792), Esther Duflo (1972), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Daniel Duval (1944), Marcel Cachin (1869), and Eddy Mitchell (1942). After him are Georges Mouton (1770), Cerrone (1952), Hugh VIII of Lusignan (1106), Dominique Blanc (1956), Robert Charpentier (1916), and Jules Cambon (1845).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ranks 94Before him are Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), and Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816). After him are Louis Bachelier (1870), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), Charles Dupin (1784), and Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819).