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Gabriel Cramer

1704 - 1752

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Gabriel Cramer (French: [kʁamɛʁ]; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752) was a Genevan mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Cramer has received more than 196,543 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Cramer is the 95th most popular mathematician (up from 101st in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 57th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Gabriel Cramer is most famous for his work on the Cramer-Rao Bound, which is a fundamental theorem in statistics that gives an upper bound on the variance of estimators.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gabriel Cramer ranks 95 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Leopold Kronecker. After him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Isaac Barrow, Grigori Perelman, and Joan Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Gabriel Cramer ranks 1. After him are Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Tahmasp II, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, Hans Hermann von Katte, John Kay, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Johann Andreas Segner, and Louis de Jaucourt. Among people deceased in 1752, Gabriel Cramer ranks 1. After him are Louis, Duke of Orléans, Henriette of France, Jacopo Amigoni, Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Giulio Alberoni, Antonio Corradini, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Jean François de Troy, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Joseph Butler, and Pietro Grimani.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gabriel Cramer ranks 55 out of 1,015. Before him are Johannes Itten (1888), Robert Walser (1878), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Henry Fuseli (1741), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825). After him are Albert I of Germany (1255), Michel Mayor (1942), Aga Khan IV (1936), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), H. R. Giger (1940), and Daniel Bovet (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Gabriel Cramer ranks 4. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Johann Bernoulli (1667), and Jacob Bernoulli (1654). After him are Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750).

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