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Jean-Marie Duhamel

1797 - 1872

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Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel (; French: [dy.amɛl]; 5 February 1797 – 29 April 1872) was a French mathematician and physicist. His studies were affected by the troubles of the Napoleonic era. He went on to form his own school École Sainte-Barbe. Duhamel's principle, a method of obtaining solutions to inhomogeneous linear evolution equations, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Marie Duhamel is the 595th most popular mathematician (down from 355th in 2019), the 3,624th most popular biography from France (down from 2,531st in 2019) and the 87th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Marie Duhamel ranks 595 out of 1,004Before him are Johann Radon, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Chen Jingrun, Henry Dudeney, and Otto E. Neugebauer. After him are Giacomo F. Maraldi, Jai Singh II, Pierre Fatou, Sydney Chapman, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, and Carl Adam Petri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Jean-Marie Duhamel ranks 61Before him are Innocent of Alaska, Ramón Castilla, Karl Otfried Müller, Henry E. Steinway, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Johann Andreas Wagner. After him are Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Peter Georg Bang, Paweł Strzelecki, El Hadj Umar Tall, José Mariano Salas, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. Among people deceased in 1872, Jean-Marie Duhamel ranks 46Before him are Carl Jaenisch, Pavel Kiselyov, Frederick Denison Maurice, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, and Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are George Catlin, Martin Ohm, Edwin Atherstone, Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, and Dimitrija Demeter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Marie Duhamel ranks 3,624 out of 6,770Before him are Ferdinand Sarrien (1840), Louis Bourdaloue (1632), Antoine de la Sale (1388), Gaucelm Faidit (1170), Charles de Bonchamps (1760), and Tignous (1957). After him are Brigitte Fontaine (1939), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Willy Sagnol (1977), Gabriel François Doyen (1726), Benoît Jacquot (1947), and Louis Charles Delescluze (1809).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Marie Duhamel ranks 87Before him are Jean Leray (1906), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842). After him are Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), and Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816).