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Edmond Laguerre

1834 - 1886

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Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (9 April 1834, Bar-le-Duc – 14 August 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician and a member of the Académie des sciences (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Laguerre has received more than 46,229 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edmond Laguerre is the 687th most popular mathematician (up from 719th in 2019), the 4,184th most popular biography from France (up from 4,185th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edmond Laguerre ranks 687 out of 1,004. Before him are Bernt Michael Holmboe, Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, David Gale, Sylvestre François Lacroix, and Alexander Esenin-Volpin. After him are Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Roy Kerr, Viktor Sadovnichiy, Jürgen Moser, and Heinz Hopf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Edmond Laguerre ranks 70. Before him are Lyuben Karavelov, John Wesley Powell, Herman Snellen, Adrien René Franchet, Petter Adolf Karsten, and Hermann Wilhelm Vogel. After him are Felix Dahn, Friedrich Tietjen, Vilém Blodek, George du Maurier, Aleksey Suvorin, and Yuriy Fedkovych. Among people deceased in 1886, Edmond Laguerre ranks 42. Before him are Pyotr Tkachev, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Leopold Zunz, Jules Malou, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, and Richard Dadd. After him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Zinovios Valvis, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Albert Küchler, Gustav Fischer, and Frederick Guthrie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 4,184 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), Abel de Pujol (1785), François Bracci (1951), Louis Garrel (1983), Ernest Goüin (1815), and Alexandre Lacazette (1991). After him are Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), Odilon Barrot (1791), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jacques Martin (1921), Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874), and Léon-Adolphe Amette (1850).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 95. Before him are Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Serge Lang (1927), and Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765). After him are Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Victor Puiseux (1820), and Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819).

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