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Édouard Lucas

1842 - 1891

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François Édouard Anatole Lucas (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa edwaʁ anatɔl lykɑ]; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Lucas is the 184th most popular mathematician (down from 177th in 2019), the 1,168th most popular biography from France (up from 1,275th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Édouard Lucas ranks 184 out of 1,004. Before him are Giambattista della Porta, Zoia Ceaușescu, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Étienne Bézout, and Simplicius of Cilicia. After him are Alonzo Church, Jean Gaston Darboux, Jakob Steiner, Hans Hahn, G. I. Taylor, and Harald Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Édouard Lucas ranks 24. Before him are James Dewar, Vasily Vereshchagin, Georg Brandes, Sophus Lie, Okita Sōji, and Ambrose Bierce. After him are Jean Gaston Darboux, Carl von Linde, Giovanni Giolitti, Johannes Zukertort, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Giovanni Boldini. Among people deceased in 1891, Édouard Lucas ranks 26. Before him are Franz Miklosich, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Carl Nägeli, Charles I of Württemberg, Albert Pike, and Jan Neruda. After him are Georges Ernest Boulanger, N. R. Pogson, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Theophil Hansen, Joseph Petzval, and Ernest Meissonier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Lucas ranks 1,168 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Leonard of Noblac (496), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762). After him are André Bazin (1918), Marion Cotillard (1975), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Kylian Mbappé (1998), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), and Marie Louise Gonzaga (1611).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Édouard Lucas ranks 38. Before him are Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), and Étienne Bézout (1730). After him are Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), André Weil (1906), and Élie Cartan (1869).

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