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Siméon Denis Poisson

1781 - 1840

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Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (, US also ; French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Siméon Denis Poisson is the 74th most popular mathematician (up from 93rd in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from France (up from 630th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 74 out of 1,004. Before her are Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, Giuseppe Peano, and Stanislaw Ulam. After her are Bhāskara II, Regiomontanus, János Bolyai, Katherine Johnson, Pappus of Alexandria, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 5. Before her are George Stephenson, Eugène de Beauharnais, Bernard Bolzano, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After her are Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, René Laennec, Adelbert von Chamisso, David Brewster, Stamford Raffles, William I of Württemberg, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1840, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 5. Before her are Niccolò Paganini, Caspar David Friedrich, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, and Frederick William III of Prussia. After her are Emperor Kōkaku, Lucien Bonaparte, Jacques MacDonald, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Dingane kaSenzangakhona.

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In France

Among people born in France, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 480 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Albert Lebrun (1871), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pytheas (-380), Louis Néel (1904), and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852). After her are Roger Vadim (1928), Fernand Léger (1881), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Charles Nicolle (1866), Stephen, King of England (1095), and André Masséna (1758).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 19. Before her are Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Gaspard Monge (1746). After her are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), and Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788).

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