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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 73,357 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant is the 316th most popular mathematician (down from 302nd in 2019), the 2,293rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,109th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 316 out of 823Before him are Giambattista Benedetti, Lev Pontryagin, Oronce Finé, Edmund Landau, Shing-Tung Yau, and Kiyosi Itô. After him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, Ernesto Cesàro, Theodor Kaluza, and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 36Before him are Kamehameha II, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Wilhelm Beer, Antonio Rosmini, and Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier. After him are Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Pierre Leroux, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and Friedrich von Lütke. Among people deceased in 1886, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 21Before him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Karl von Piloty, Lydia Koidula, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Eliza Lynch, and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust. After him are Adolphe Monticelli, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Jules Jamin, José Hernández, Marco Minghetti, and Eugène Isabey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 2,293 out of 6,011Before him are Jacques Amyot (1513), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Saint Martial (300), Victorine Meurent (1844), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), and Violette Leduc (1907). After him are Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Marguerite of Lorraine (1615), Benjamin Péret (1899), Henry Beaufort (1374), and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 56Before him are Pierre Varignon (1654), Antoine Gombaud (1607), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Guillaume Postel (1510), and Oronce Finé (1494). After him are Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Paul Lévy (1886), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), and Alain Connes (1947).