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Jean Gaston Darboux

1842 - 1917

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Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Gaston Darboux is the 186th most popular mathematician (up from 189th in 2019), the 1,187th most popular biography from France (up from 1,330th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Mathematician.

Jean Gaston Darboux is most famous for his work on differential geometry. He is credited with the invention of the Darboux integral and the Darboux theorem.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 186 out of 1,004Before him are Edward Norton Lorenz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Étienne Bézout, Simplicius of Cilicia, Édouard Lucas, and Alonzo Church. After him are Jakob Steiner, Hans Hahn, G. I. Taylor, Harald Bohr, Rafael Bombelli, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 25Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin, Georg Brandes, Sophus Lie, Okita Sōji, Ambrose Bierce, and Édouard Lucas. After him are Carl von Linde, Giovanni Giolitti, Johannes Zukertort, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Giovanni Boldini, and Mykola Lysenko. Among people deceased in 1917, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 24Before him are Ludwig Minkus, Mackenzie Bowell, Scott Joplin, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, and Frances Xavier Cabrini. After him are Ranavalona III, Léon Bloy, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Adolph Wagner, Hugo Simberg, and Lucien Petit-Breton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 1,187 out of 6,770Before him are Richard III, Duke of Normandy (1001), Alain Touraine (1925), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Jean Gerson (1363), Robert de Sorbon (1201), and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827). After him are Robert I, Count of Artois (1216), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Ferdinand Buisson (1841), and Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 39Before him are Michel Rolle (1652), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Édouard Lucas (1842). After him are Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), André Weil (1906), Élie Cartan (1869), and Pierre Bouguer (1698).