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Gilles de Roberval

1602 - 1675

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Gilles Personne de Roberval (August 10, 1602 – October 27, 1675), French mathematician, was born at Roberval near Beauvais, France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilles de Roberval has received more than 69,612 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gilles de Roberval is the 234th most popular mathematician (down from 220th in 2019), the 1,648th most popular biography from France (down from 1,552nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Mathematician.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.91

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gilles de Roberval ranks 234 out of 1,004. Before him are S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, Piet Hein, Joseph Petzval, and Seymour Papert. After him are Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, Isaac Beeckman, Farkas Bolyai, Johannes de Sacrobosco, and Nicolaus II Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Gilles de Roberval ranks 7. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin, Otto von Guericke, Athanasius Kircher, Elisabeth of France, Francesco Cavalli, and Philippe de Champaigne. After him are Salomon van Ruysdael, Per Brahe the Younger, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Zhu Yujian, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. Among people deceased in 1675, Gilles de Roberval ranks 8. Before him are Gerrit Dou, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, James Gregory, and Thomas Willis. After him are Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Leopoldo de' Medici, Gaspard Dughet, and Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilles de Roberval ranks 1,648 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Canguilhem (1904), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), Robert-François Damiens (1715), and Germaine Dulac (1882). After him are Charlotte Perriand (1903), Thibaud Gaudin (1229), Felix of Valois (1127), Jacques Dutronc (1943), Émile Coué (1857), and Marcel Aymé (1902).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Gilles de Roberval ranks 48. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Pierre Varignon (1654), and Élie Cartan (1869). After him are Joseph Bertrand (1822), Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), and Maurice René Fréchet (1878).

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