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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

1789 - 1857

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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (UK: KOH-shee, KOW-shee, US: koh-SHEE, France: / ˈoɡystɛ̃ˈ lwˈi kˈoʃˈi /, OH-gus-TEY loo-EE KOH-SHEE; 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus (thereby creating real analysis), pioneered the field complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustin-Louis Cauchy has received more than 934,449 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Augustin-Louis Cauchy is the 31st most popular mathematician (up from 33rd in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from France (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Mathematician.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician who is most famous for his contributions to analysis, differential equations, and number theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 31 out of 823. Before him are David Hilbert, Évariste Galois, Pope Sylvester II, Srinivasa Ramanujan, François Viète, and John Napier. After him are Georg Cantor, Gerolamo Cardano, George Boole, Kurt Gödel, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, and Ada Lovelace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 2. Before him is Georg Ohm. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Friedrich List, María Isabella of Spain, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Heinrich Schwabe, and Abbas Mirza. Among people deceased in 1857, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 2. Before him is Auguste Comte. After him are Carl Czerny, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Eugène François Vidocq, Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Alfred de Musset, Eugène Sue, Francis Beaufort, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 185 out of 6,011. Before him are François Viète (1540), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Louis de Broglie (1892), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809). After him are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Théodore Géricault (1791), Louis VII of France (1120), Alfred Sisley (1839), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), and Guy of Lusignan (1150).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 10. Before him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), and François Viète (1540). After him are Sophie Germain (1776), Gaspard Monge (1746), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Marin Mersenne (1588), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728).

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