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Joseph Liouville

1809 - 1882

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Joseph Liouville ( LEE-oo-VIL; French: [ʒozɛf ljuvil]; 24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician and engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Liouville is the 148th most popular mathematician (up from 151st in 2019), the 1,017th most popular biography from France (up from 1,065th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Mathematician.

Joseph Liouville is most famous for his theorem on zeta functions and their connection to prime numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Liouville ranks 148 out of 1,004. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, John G. Kemeny, Gabriel Lamé, George Pólya, and Lars Ahlfors. After him are John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, Vincenzo Viviani, Marian Rejewski, Andrey Markov, and Colin Maclaurin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Joseph Liouville ranks 12. Before him are William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Bruno Bauer. After him are Albert Pike, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Juliusz Słowacki, Ljudevit Gaj, and Hermann Grassmann. Among people deceased in 1882, Joseph Liouville ranks 13. Before him are Theodor Schwann, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Francesco Hayez, Bruno Bauer, Léon Gambetta, and Louis Blanc. After him are John Nelson Darby, William Stanley Jevons, Vasily Perov, Thomas Hill Green, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Liouville ranks 1,017 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Chilperic I (539), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Roger Etchegaray (1922), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), and Robert Doisneau (1912). After him are Georges Bernanos (1888), Louis Desaix (1768), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charlotte of Savoy (1441), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), and Victoire of France (1733).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Liouville ranks 32. Before him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Gabriel Lamé (1795). After him are Michel Rolle (1652), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Édouard Lucas (1842).

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