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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant

1797 - 1886

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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (French pronunciation: [ademaʁ ʒɑ̃ klod baʁe də sɛ̃ vənɑ̃]; 23 August 1797 – 6 January 1886) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. The one-dimensional Saint-Venant equation is a commonly used simplification of the shallow water equations. Although his full surname was Barré de Saint-Venant, in mathematical literature other than French he is known as Saint-Venant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant has received more than 79,572 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant is the 400th most popular mathematician (down from 316th in 2019), the 2,764th most popular biography from France (down from 2,286th in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 400 out of 1,004. Before him are Qin Jiushao, Campanus of Novara, Lars Hörmander, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Richard Hamming, and Benedetto Castelli. After him are Enrico Betti, Richard S. Hamilton, Hans Freudenthal, Bhāskara I, Philippe de La Hire, and Abraham Fraenkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 44. Before him are Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, James Ferguson, Jeremias Gotthelf, and January Suchodolski. After him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Wilhelm Beer, Friedrich von Lütke, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, El Hadj Umar Tall, and Karl Otfried Müller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 2,764 out of 6,770. Before him are René Crevel (1900), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), Jean Ferrat (1930), Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845), and Claude Lefort (1924). After him are Alain Finkielkraut (1949), Alix, Duchess of Brittany (1200), Augustin Pajou (1730), Isabelle Aubret (1938), Bernard Werber (1961), and Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 64. Before him are Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Albert Girard (1595), and Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813). After him are Philippe de La Hire (1640), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), and Jacques Ozanam (1640).

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