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Pierre Louis Maupertuis

1698 - 1759

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great. Maupertuis made an expedition to Lapland to determine the shape of the Earth. He is often credited with having discovered the principle of least action – a version of which is known as Maupertuis's principle – which he expressed as an integral equation that describes the path followed by a physical system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Louis Maupertuis is the 113th most popular mathematician (down from 98th in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from France (down from 675th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre Louis Maupertuis is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He is also known for being a mathematician and philosopher.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 113 out of 1,004. Before him are Émile Picard, Willebrord Snellius, Paul Cohen, Alexis Clairaut, Grigori Perelman, and Ctesibius. After him are George Green, Leonid Kantorovich, Alexander Friedmann, William Oughtred, Gabriel Cramer, and Christopher Clavius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 1. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Colin Maclaurin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, 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 1759, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 4. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Louise Élisabeth of France, and Ferdinand VI of Spain. After him are Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Sedjefakare.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 767 out of 6,770. Before him are Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Louis Le Vau (1612), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), and David Guetta (1967). After him are Bruno Latour (1947), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Louis Renault (1877), Peter Waldo (1140), Dom Pérignon (1639), and Armand Fallières (1841).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 24. Before him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), and Alexis Clairaut (1713). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), and Henri Lebesgue (1875).

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