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Pierre Alphonse Laurent

1813 - 1854

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Pierre Alphonse Laurent (18 July 1813 – 2 September 1854) was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer best known for discovering the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Alphonse Laurent is the 444th most popular mathematician (down from 397th in 2019), the 2,846th most popular biography from France (down from 2,737th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 444 out of 1,004. Before him are Nina Bari, Alfred Clebsch, Benedetto Castelli, Thomas Henderson, Igor Ansoff, and Frigyes Riesz. After him are Johann II Bernoulli, Yang Hui, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Hermann Bondi, Goro Shimura, and Yves Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 36. Before him are Moritz Wagner, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Frédéric Ozanam, Camilla Collett, Pōmare IV, and William Smith. After him are Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Adolph Kolping, Stephen Heller, Jean Stas, Ludwig Leichhardt, and Carl Jaenisch. Among people deceased in 1854, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 23. Before him are Jeremias Gotthelf, John Martin, Kamehameha III, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Nicolás Bravo, and Arthur Aikin. After him are Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Émilie de Villeneuve, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Macedonio Melloni, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, and Vatroslav Lisinski.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 2,846 out of 6,770. Before him are Thierry Sabine (1949), Armand Trousseau (1801), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555), Georges Leclanché (1836), André Salmon (1881), and Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764). After him are Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Julie d'Aubigny (1670), Ousmane Dembélé (1997), and Anne Dacier (1645).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 72. Before him are Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), and Jacques Ozanam (1640). After him are Yves Meyer (1939), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Albert Girard (1595), Pierre Vernier (1580), and Pierre Wantzel (1814).

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