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Gabriel Lamé

1795 - 1870

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Gabriel Lamé (22 July 1795 – 1 May 1870) was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity (for which linear elasticity and finite strain theory elaborate the mathematical abstractions). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Lamé has received more than 90,943 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gabriel Lamé is the 193rd most popular mathematician (down from 156th in 2019), the 1,357th most popular biography from France (down from 1,155th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Mathematician.

Gabriel Lamé was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work in the theory of equations.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gabriel Lamé ranks 193 out of 1,004. Before him are Ahmes, Georg von Peuerbach, Jean Gaston Darboux, Hermann Grassmann, Abu Nasr Mansur, and Jakob Steiner. After him are Theaetetus, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Al-Khazini, Giovanni Ceva, Al-Karaji, and Laurent Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Gabriel Lamé ranks 15. Before him are Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and John William Polidori. After him are Saverio Mercadante, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Hadji Murad, Johns Hopkins, Anselme Payen, and Heinrich Marschner. Among people deceased in 1870, Gabriel Lamé ranks 17. Before him are Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Victor Noir, and Anthony Mary Claret. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, Saverio Mercadante, Ignaz Moscheles, Jules de Goncourt, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabriel Lamé ranks 1,357 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis III of Anjou (1403), Richardis (840), Georges Prêtre (1924), Sebastian Castellio (1515), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), and Françoise Gilot (1921). After him are Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), Claude Lanzmann (1925), and Pierre Cauchon (1371).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Gabriel Lamé ranks 40. Before him are René Thom (1923), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Édouard Lucas (1842), and Jean Gaston Darboux (1842). After him are Laurent Schwartz (1915), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), and Pierre Varignon (1654).

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