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Antoine Gombaud

1607 - 1684

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Antoine Gombaud, alias Chevalier de Méré, (1607 – 29 December 1684) was a French writer, born in Poitou. Although he was not a nobleman, he adopted the title chevalier (knight) for the character in his dialogues who represented his own views (chevalier de Méré because he was educated at Méré). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Gombaud has received more than 54,461 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Gombaud is the 257th most popular mathematician (up from 287th in 2019), the 1,850th most popular biography from France (up from 2,000th in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Antoine Gombaud ranks 257 out of 823Before him are Jabir ibn Aflah, William George Horner, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Michael Stifel, Andreas Osiander, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī. After him are Abraham Zacuto, Abraham bar Hiyya, Jean-Robert Argand, Eugène Charles Catalan, Sam Loyd, and Gotthold Eisenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, Antoine Gombaud ranks 8Before him are John Harvard, Madeleine de Scudéry, Jan Lievens, Anna Maria van Schurman, Zhu Yousong, and Infante Carlos of Spain. After him are Wenceslaus Hollar, Paul Gerhardt, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, Antonio Barberini, and Song Si-yeol. Among people deceased in 1684, Antoine Gombaud ranks 10Before him are Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Nicola Amati, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Josefa de Óbidos, Anne Gonzaga, and Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Johann Rosenmüller, Maria d'Este, Alvise Contarini, Roger Williams, and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Gombaud ranks 1,850 out of 6,011Before him are Charles de Bourbon (1523), Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1343), John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (1693), and Joseph Meister (1876). After him are Francis Veber (1937), Louis Durey (1888), Aymon, Count of Savoy (1291), Georges Guynemer (1894), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), and François-Édouard Picot (1786).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Antoine Gombaud ranks 51Before him are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Henri Cartan (1904), Édouard Roche (1820), Émile Picard (1856), Michel Chasles (1793), and Pierre Varignon (1654). After him are René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Guillaume Postel (1510), Oronce Finé (1494), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), and Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813).