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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 43,217 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edmond Laguerre is the 722nd most popular mathematician (down from 619th in 2019), the 4,202nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,542nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edmond Laguerre ranks 722 out of 823. Before him are Douglas Hartree, Vera T. Sós, Solomon W. Golomb, Antanas Mockus, E. T. Whittaker, and Cesare Arzelà. After him are Pyotr Novikov, Leopold Vietoris, Grigore Moisil, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Tom M. Apostol, and Wendelin Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Edmond Laguerre ranks 79. Before him are Louis Ruchonnet, Manuel Pardo, Friedrich Tietjen, George du Maurier, Heinrich Caro, and Princess Marie of Baden. After him are Charles Augustus Young, Emil Stang, Rafael Zaldívar, James Gibbons, José Eugenio Ellauri, and Thomas François Burgers. Among people deceased in 1886, Edmond Laguerre ranks 47. Before him are Jules Malou, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Tomás Villalba, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and David Rice Atchison. After him are Gustav Fischer, Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Samuel J. Tilden, Randolph Caldecott, and Théodore Aubanel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 4,202 out of 6,011. Before him are Élie Bayol (1914), Eleanor of Normandy (1010), Sebastian Roché (1964), Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798), Georges Lacombe (1902), and Louis Aliot (1969). After him are Florent Pagny (1961), Robert Guédiguian (1953), Luc Ferry (1951), Benjamin Pavard (1996), Michel Leclère (1946), and Mathieu Flamini (1984).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Edmond Laguerre ranks 98. Before him are Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), and Victor Puiseux (1820). After him are Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Cédric Villani (1973), Henri Padé (1863), James Lighthill (1924), and Roger Apéry (1916).

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