MATHEMATICIAN

Pierre Raymond de Montmort

1678 - 1719

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Pierre Remond de Montmort was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris on 27 October 1678 and died there on 7 October 1719. His name was originally just Pierre Remond. His father pressured him to study law, but he rebelled and travelled to England and Germany, returning to France in 1699 when, upon receiving a large inheritance from his father, he bought an estate and took the name de Montmort. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Raymond de Montmort is the 414th most popular mathematician (up from 688th in 2019), the 2,662nd most popular biography from France (up from 4,188th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Raymond de Montmort ranks 414 out of 1,004Before him are Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Edmund Gunter, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Gilles de Roberval, Ernesto Cesàro, and Oscar Zariski. After him are Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Roger Cotes, Jakow Trachtenberg, Daniele Barbaro, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, and Mitchell Feigenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Pierre Raymond de Montmort ranks 10Before him are Amaro Pargo, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Filippo Juvarra, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Peter Lacy. After him are Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Jakob Hermann, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, and Abraham Darby I. Among people deceased in 1719, Pierre Raymond de Montmort ranks 15Before him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Boris Sheremetev, and Arp Schnitger. After him are Carlo Cignani, Arnold Houbraken, Pasquier Quesnel, Farrukhsiyar, Köprülüzade Numan Pasha, and Georg Heinrich von Görtz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Raymond de Montmort ranks 2,662 out of 6,770Before him are Louison Bobet (1925), Valery Larbaud (1881), Georges Guynemer (1894), Gabriel Matzneff (1936), Sébastien Loeb (1974), and Pierre Leroux (1797). After him are Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (1487), Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642), Renaud Camus (1946), Marius Aventicensis (532), and François de Charette (1763).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Raymond de Montmort ranks 70Before him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), and Gilles de Roberval (1602). After him are Jacques Ozanam (1640), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Yves Meyer (1939), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Albert Girard (1595).