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Joseph Diez Gergonne

1771 - 1859

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Joseph Diez Gergonne (19 June 1771 at Nancy, France – 4 May 1859 at Montpellier, France) was a French mathematician and logician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Diez Gergonne is the 337th most popular mathematician (up from 634th in 2019), the 2,112th most popular biography from France (up from 3,972nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Diez Gergonne ranks 337 out of 1,004Before him are Pavel Alexandrov, Eugenio Beltrami, Alfred Korzybski, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Gotthold Eisenstein, and Julius Plücker. After him are Lev Pontryagin, Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Joseph Diez Gergonne ranks 19Before him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Mungo Park, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, and Ferdinando Paer. After him are Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Mikhail Miloradovich, Rahel Varnhagen, Nicolas Chopin, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1859, Joseph Diez Gergonne ranks 30Before him are Louis Poinsot, Carl Adolph Agardh, John Austin, Tatya Tope, Robert Stephenson, and Abd al-Rahman of Morocco. After him are Yoshida Shōin, Alfred Vail, Zygmunt Krasiński, Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and William Cranch Bond.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Diez Gergonne ranks 2,112 out of 6,770Before him are Guy Roux (1938), Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), and François Périer (1919). After him are Jacques Cazotte (1719), Léon Flameng (1877), Princess Elisabeth of Savoy (1800), Joseph Joubert (1754), John I, Duke of Alençon (1385), and Marcel Schwob (1867).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Diez Gergonne ranks 60Before him are Édouard Roche (1820), Oronce Finé (1494), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), and René-Louis Baire (1874). After him are Paul Émile Appell (1855), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Guillaume Postel (1510), Philippe de La Hire (1640), and Jean Dieudonné (1906).