MATHEMATICIAN

Camille Jordan

1838 - 1922

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Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (French: [ʒɔʁdɑ̃]; 5 January 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camille Jordan has received more than 255,637 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Camille Jordan is the 171st most popular mathematician (up from 181st in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from France (up from 1,281st in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Camille Jordan ranks 171 out of 1,004Before him are Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Aleksandr Lyapunov. After him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, Jean-Pierre Serre, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, and Édouard Lucas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Camille Jordan ranks 20Before him are Yamagata Aritomo, Anton Mauve, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Princess Louise of Prussia, Liliʻuokalani, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. After him are Ōkuma Shigenobu, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Konstanty Kalinowski, Marià Fortuny, 11th Dalai Lama, and Edward W. Morley. Among people deceased in 1922, Camille Jordan ranks 28Before him are Andrey Markov, Léon Bonnat, Nellie Bly, Paul Deschanel, Gabriel Narutowicz, and Mori Ōgai. After him are Alessandro Moreschi, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Lothar von Richthofen, Velimir Khlebnikov, Ōkuma Shigenobu, and Hermann Alexander Diels.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Jordan ranks 1,225 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Marie Leclair (1697), Sonia Rykiel (1930), André Antoine (1858), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Philippe Troussier (1955), and Jean Vigo (1905). After him are Charles, Duke of Berry (1686), Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543), Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1847), Blanche Monnier (1849), Guillaume Brune (1763), and Charles Péguy (1873).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Camille Jordan ranks 36Before him are Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), André Weil (1906), Pierre Bouguer (1698), René Thom (1923), and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749). After him are Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Édouard Lucas (1842), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Laurent Schwartz (1915), and Étienne-Louis Malus (1775).