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René-Louis Baire

1874 - 1932

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René-Louis Baire (French: [bɛʁ]; 21 January 1874 – 5 July 1932) was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variables réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René-Louis Baire is the 328th most popular mathematician (up from 330th in 2019), the 2,090th most popular biography from France (up from 2,341st in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, René-Louis Baire ranks 328 out of 1,004. Before him are Lennart Carleson, Kunihiko Kodaira, Edward Waring, Georg Alexander Pick, Emil Artin, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant. After him are Eutocius of Ascalon, Wilhelm Ackermann, Pavel Alexandrov, Eugenio Beltrami, Alfred Korzybski, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, René-Louis Baire ranks 66. Before him are Joseph Erlanger, Emilie Louise Flöge, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Wu Peifu, Martin Lowry, and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. After him are Lina Cavalieri, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, István Bethlen, Carl Schlechter, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, and Elsa Beskow. Among people deceased in 1932, René-Louis Baire ranks 42. Before him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Johannes Schober, Ahmed Shawqi, Alajos Szokolyi, Ramon Casas, and Tomáš Baťa. After him are Alexander Grin, José Félix Uriburu, Harriet Backer, John Philip Sousa, Louis Anquetin, and Patrick Geddes.

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In France

Among people born in France, René-Louis Baire ranks 2,090 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Coysevox (1640), Peter Nolasco (1180), Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Jehan Alain (1911), and Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937). After him are Jean Rouch (1917), Pierre Reverdy (1889), Amalric of Bena (1150), Victorine Meurent (1844), Pierre d'Aubusson (1423), and Anne Jules de Noailles (1650).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, René-Louis Baire ranks 59. Before him are Paul Lévy (1886), Édouard Roche (1820), Oronce Finé (1494), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Alain Connes (1947), and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797). After him are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Guillaume Postel (1510), and Philippe de La Hire (1640).

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