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Pierre Bouguer

1698 - 1758

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Pierre Bouguer (French: [buˈge]) (16 February 1698, Le Croisic – 15 August 1758, Paris) was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Bouguer is the 217th most popular mathematician (down from 165th in 2019), the 1,348th most popular biography from France (down from 1,172nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre Bouguer was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work in the field of geodesy. He was one of the first scientists to study the Earth's gravitational field and the variation in gravity with altitude.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Bouguer ranks 217 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Guldin, Robert Grosseteste, Piet Hein, Peter Tait, Élie Cartan, and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi. After him are Thomas Abbt, Hermann Schwarz, Robert Aumann, Pedro Nunes, Laurent Schwartz, and Martin Kutta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Pierre Bouguer ranks 6. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Colin Maclaurin, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. After him are Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Johann Jakob Bodmer, and Erik Pontoppidan. Among people deceased in 1758, Pierre Bouguer ranks 6. Before him are Pope Benedict XIV, Hans Egede, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Barbara of Portugal, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Jonathan Edwards, Senesino, Johan Helmich Roman, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and Antoine de Jussieu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bouguer ranks 1,348 out of 6,770. Before him are Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), Élie Cartan (1869), Lazare Hoche (1768), Jean-Claude Killy (1943), Charles Leclerc (1772), and Theobald II of Navarre (1239). After him are Michel Adanson (1727), Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Monique Wittig (1935), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), Jane Avril (1868), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Bouguer ranks 45. Before him are Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), André Weil (1906), and Élie Cartan (1869). After him are Laurent Schwartz (1915), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Pierre Varignon (1654), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), and Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816).

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