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Pierre Vernier

1580 - 1637

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Pierre Vernier (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ vɛʁnje]; 19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté (at that time ruled by the Spanish Habsburgs, now part of France) – 14 September 1637, same location) was a mathematician and instrument inventor. He was the inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Vernier is the 490th most popular mathematician (down from 431st in 2019), the 3,059th most popular biography from France (down from 2,986th in 2019) and the 77th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Vernier ranks 490 out of 1,004. Before him are Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Whitfield Diffie, Guidobaldo del Monte, James Stirling, Albert Girard, and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov. After him are Otto Hölder, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Lazarus Fuchs, Simon von Stampfer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, and Stephen Cole Kleene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Pierre Vernier ranks 18. Before him are Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Augusta of Denmark, António de Andrade, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Andrea Falconieri, and Gaspar de Borja y Velasco. After him are Matei Basarab, Julius Schiller, Daniël Heinsius, Carlo Contarini, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania, and Thomas Middleton. Among people deceased in 1637, Pierre Vernier ranks 13. Before him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Robert Fludd, Isaac Beeckman, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Péter Pázmány, and Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania. After him is Theodoor Rombouts.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 3,059 out of 6,770. Before him are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Henri Laurens (1885), Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Charles Percier (1764), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), and Nasreddine Dinet (1861). After him are Raymond Sommer (1906), Louis Buffet (1818), Charles Tournemire (1870), Mathieu Amalric (1965), Félix Bracquemond (1833), and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 77. Before him are Jacques Ozanam (1640), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Yves Meyer (1939), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Albert Girard (1595). After him are Pierre Wantzel (1814), Henri Brocard (1845), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Jean Leray (1906), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), and Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725).

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