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MATHEMATICIAN

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 41,705 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac is the 561st most popular mathematician (down from 339th in 2019), the 3,554th most popular biography from France (down from 2,378th in 2019) and the 84th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 561 out of 823Before him are Evgraf Fedorov, Theodosius of Bithynia, Johann Radon, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Max August Zorn, and Cahit Arf. After him are Chen Jingrun, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Dai Zhen, Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, and Karol Borsuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1581, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 15Before him are Hendrik Brouwer, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Hedwig of Denmark, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, and Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him is Edmund Gunter. Among people deceased in 1638, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 20Before him are Hercules Seghers, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Barbara Longhi, George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Joachim Wtewael, and John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. After him are Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Gabriello Chiabrera, Paulus Moreelse, and John Wilbye.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 3,554 out of 6,011Before him are Gaucelm Faidit (1170), Victor Laloux (1850), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Yvonne Loriod (1924), and Coline Serreau (1947). After him are Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Hélène Grimaud (1969), Dominique Wilkins (1960), and Jules Bianchi (1989).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ranks 84Before him are Louis Bachelier (1870), Jacques Ozanam (1640), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), and Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765). After him are Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), and Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725).