1797 - 1886
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, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 316 out of 823. Before 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.
1530 - 1590
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 310
1908 - 1988
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 311
1494 - 1555
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 312
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 313
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 314
1915 - 2008
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 315
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 316
940 - 1000
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 317
1903 - 1930
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 318
1893 - 1978
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 319
1859 - 1906
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 320
1885 - 1954
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 321
1821 - 1896
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 322
Among people born in 1797, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 36. Before 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 21. Before 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.
1797 - 1824
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 30
1797 - 1856
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 31
1797 - 1848
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 32
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 33
1797 - 1855
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1797 - 1878
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 35
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 36
1797 - 1817
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 37
1797 - 1862
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 38
1797 - 1889
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 39
1797 - 1871
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 40
1797 - 1848
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 41
1797 - 1882
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 42
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 15
1826 - 1886
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 16
1843 - 1886
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 17
1820 - 1886
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 18
1833 - 1886
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 19
1809 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 20
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 21
1824 - 1886
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 22
1828 - 1886
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 23
1818 - 1886
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 24
1834 - 1886
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 25
1818 - 1886
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 26
1803 - 1886
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 27
Among people born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 2,293 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1513 - 1593
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 2,287
1567 - 1625
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 2,288
300 - 300
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 2,289
1844 - 1927
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 2,290
1851 - 1940
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 2,291
1907 - 1972
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 2,292
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,293
1643 - 1704
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,294
1888 - 1962
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,295
1615 - 1672
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,296
1899 - 1959
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,297
1374 - 1447
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,298
1987 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,299
Among mathematicians born in France, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant ranks 56. Before 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).
1654 - 1722
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 50
1607 - 1684
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 51
1874 - 1932
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 52
1822 - 1900
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 53
1510 - 1581
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 54
1494 - 1555
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 55
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 56
1813 - 1854
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 57
1816 - 1872
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 58
1906 - 1992
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 59
1886 - 1971
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 60
1735 - 1796
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 61
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 62