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Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

1581 - 1638

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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (the very translation where Fermat wrote a margin note about Fermat's Last Theorem). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac has received more than 43,966 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac is the 655th most popular mathematician (down from 559th in 2019), the 4,045th most popular biography from France (down from 3,539th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 655 out of 1,004. Before him are Efim Zelmanov, Fritz Noether, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Charles Dupin, Jacobus Golius, and Thomas Digges. After him are Jerzy Różycki, Johann Schreck, Nicolas Fuss, Cesare Arzelà, Oswald Veblen, and Alessandro Galilei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1581, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 16. Before him are Hedwig of Denmark, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Edmund Gunter, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, and Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.  Among people deceased in 1638, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 24. Before him are Georg Flegel, Joachim Wtewael, Jacques Blanchard, George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. After him are Gabriello Chiabrera, and John Wilbye.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 4,045 out of 6,770. Before him are Ernest Labrousse (1895), Bernard Genghini (1958), Victor Lanoux (1936), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), Jean Grémillon (1902), and René Maire (1878). After him are Henri Jobier (1879), Régis Wargnier (1948), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Françoise Rosay (1891), André Blondel (1863), and Willy Ronis (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 90. Before him are Henri Brocard (1845), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), and Charles Dupin (1784). After him are Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Serge Lang (1927), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Edmond Laguerre (1834), and Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678).

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