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Marc-Antoine Parseval

1755 - 1836

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Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes (27 April 1755 – 16 August 1836) was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which showed that the Fourier transform is unitary. He was born in Rosières-aux-Salines, France, into an aristocratic French family, and married Ursule Guerillot in 1795, but divorced her soon after. A monarchist opposed to the French Revolution, imprisoned in 1792, Parseval later fled the country for publishing poetry critical of the government of Napoleon. Later, he was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences five times, from 1796 to 1828, but was never elected. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc-Antoine Parseval is the 610th most popular mathematician (up from 700th in 2019), the 3,718th most popular biography from France (up from 4,229th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 610 out of 1,004. Before him are Boris Delaunay, Efim Zelmanov, Nicomedes, Jürgen Moser, Sulochana Gadgil, and Karol Borsuk. After him are James Ivory, Al-Birjandi, Shigefumi Mori, David Ruelle, Michael Freedman, and Kushyar Gilani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 41. Before him are Gaspard de Prony, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Sarah Siddons, Jacques Labillardière, and Dorothea Viehmann. After him are Stanisław Staszic, Nicolas Fuss, Narayan Rao, Thomas Hardwicke, William Bradford, and Abol-Fath Khan Zand. Among people deceased in 1836, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 42. Before him are Reşid Mehmed Pasha, Andrey Razumovsky, Orest Kiprensky, Adolf Stieler, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After him are Emily Donelson, John Pond, Miguel Barragán, Edward Livingston, Stephen F. Austin, and William B. Travis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 3,718 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Nicolas (1913), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Georges Marchal (1920), Léon Gaumont (1864), and Georges Speicher (1907). After him are Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Charb (1967), René Llense (1913), Samir Nasri (1987), Catherine Frot (1956), and Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 90. Before him are Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre Fatou (1878), and Jacques Herbrand (1908). After him are René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Pierre-Louis Lions (1956).

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