MATHEMATICIAN

Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin

1866 - 1962

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Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas, baron de la Vallée Poussin (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ etjɛn ɡystav nikɔla baʁɔ̃ də la vale pusɛ̃]; 14 August 1866 – 2 March 1962) was a Belgian mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin has received more than 41,583 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin is the 560th most popular mathematician (up from 567th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 560 out of 1,004Before him are Max Dehn, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Cahit Arf, Henri Brocard, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, and Paul Bernays. After him are Gino Fano, Agner Krarup Erlang, Francesco Barozzi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Thoralf Skolem, and Giacomo F. Maraldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 98Before him are James J. Corbett, J. B. M. Hertzog, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Alexey Troitsky, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Prince Aribert of Anhalt. After him are Johannes Jørgensen, Ernest William Brown, Jaan Poska, Alexander Protopopov, Tilemachos Karakalos, and Wlodimir Ledóchowski. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 108Before him are Abdullah Goran, Carl Diem, Hermann Muhs, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Franz Kaiser, and Raquel Meller. After him are Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Donald Lippincott, Kunio Yanagita, Josef Uridil, and A. K. Fazlul Huq.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 492 out of 1,190Before him are Louis Van Hege (1889), Henri Anspach (1882), Jean Van Hamme (1939), Marie Popelin (1846), Peter Benoit (1834), and Sophie Wilmès (1975). After him are Marouane Fellaini (1987), Felix Timmermans (1886), Tony Parker (1982), Andrei Kozyrev (1951), Vincent Kompany (1986), and Jan Decleir (1946).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin ranks 7Before him are Simon Stevin (1548), Victor D'Hondt (1841), Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Pierre Deligne (1944), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), and Pierre François Verhulst (1804). After him are David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), Elias M. Stein (1931), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), and Jacques Tits (1930).