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Jean Frédéric Frenet

1816 - 1900

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Jean Frédéric Frenet (French: [fʁənɛ]; 7 February 1816 – 12 June 1900) was a French mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist. He was born and died in Périgueux, France. He is best known for being an independent co-discoverer of the Frenet–Serret formulas. He wrote six out of the nine formulas, which at that time were not expressed in vector notation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Frédéric Frenet is the 631st most popular mathematician (down from 503rd in 2019), the 3,818th most popular biography from France (down from 3,353rd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Frédéric Frenet ranks 631 out of 1,004. Before him are Leonard Eugene Dickson, Serge Lang, Willem 's Gravesande, Grete Hermann, Dmitri Egorov, and Jakob Hermann. After him are Alfréd Haar, Al-Qalqashandi, Douglas Hartree, Dinostratus, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, and François d'Aguilon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Jean Frédéric Frenet ranks 38. Before him are Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Dmitry Milyutin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Dimitrie Ghica, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, and Lajos Haynald. After him are Moritz Steinschneider, William Sterndale Bennett, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Stephen Allen Benson, Jubal Early, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce. Among people deceased in 1900, Jean Frédéric Frenet ranks 70. Before him are Johan Kjeldahl, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Adrien René Franchet, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, and James Edward Keeler. After him are Arsenio Martínez Campos, Karl Doppler, Gustaf Åkerhielm, Albert Bernhard Frank, John Anderson, and Alexandre de Serpa Pinto.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Frédéric Frenet ranks 3,818 out of 6,770. Before him are Odilon Barrot (1791), Bernard Cazeneuve (1963), Inès de La Fressange (1957), Sanchia of Provence (1225), Cecilia of Normandy (1056), and Anselm of Laon (1050). After him are Louis Bastien (1881), Robert de Clari (1170), Frédéric Dard (1921), André Roosevelt (1879), Micheline Bernardini (1927), and Mathé Altéry (1927).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Frédéric Frenet ranks 93. Before him are Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), and Serge Lang (1927). After him are Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Louis Bachelier (1870), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), and Charles Dupin (1784).

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