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Michel Rolle

1652 - 1719

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Michel Rolle (21 April 1652 – 8 November 1719) was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Rolle is the 155th most popular mathematician (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,047th most popular biography from France (up from 1,074th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Mathematician.

Michel Rolle is most famous for being the first black player to play in the French National Football team.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michel Rolle ranks 155 out of 1,004. Before him are John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, Vincenzo Viviani, Marian Rejewski, Andrey Markov, and Colin Maclaurin. After him are Oliver Heaviside, Aloysius Lilius, Autolycus of Pitane, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Peter Lax, and Scipione del Ferro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1652, Michel Rolle ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement XII, and Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine. After him are Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, Boris Sheremetev, Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Cornelis de Bruijn, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental, Thomas Otway, and Johann Ernst Glück. Among people deceased in 1719, Michel Rolle ranks 5. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, and Shah Jahan II. After him are Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 1,047 out of 6,770. Before him are Magdalena of France (1443), Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Inessa Armand (1874), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), and Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644). After him are Marcel Dupré (1886), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Philippe Ariès (1914), Thierry Henry (1977), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), and Louis-Jules Trochu (1815).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 33. Before him are Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Gabriel Lamé (1795), and Joseph Liouville (1809). After him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Étienne Bézout (1730), Édouard Lucas (1842), and Jean Gaston Darboux (1842).

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