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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; French: [oɡystɛ̃ lwi koʃi]; 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 980,017 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Augustin-Louis Cauchy is the 36th most popular mathematician (down from 31st in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from France (down from 185th in 2019) and the 9th 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 36 out of 1,004. Before him are François Viète, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, Georg Cantor, Ada Lovelace, and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. After him are Kurt Gödel, Johann Bernoulli, Emmy Noether, Pope Sylvester II, Gottlob Frege, and George Boole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 2. Before him is Georg Ohm. After him are Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, María Isabella of Spain, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. 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, Alfred de Musset, Dominic Savio, Mikhail Glinka, Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Francis Beaufort.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 215 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Valois (1553), Charles IV of France (1294), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Pope Clement IV (1190), and Pope Urban IV (1185). After him are Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), André Breton (1896), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Gustave Le Bon (1841), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Augustin-Louis Cauchy ranks 9. Before him are Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), Joseph Fourier (1768), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Évariste Galois (1811), and François Viète (1540). After him are Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Gaspard Monge (1746), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), and Urbain Le Verrier (1811).

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