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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 64,889 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gilles de Roberval is the 220th most popular mathematician (down from 208th in 2019), the 1,557th most popular biography from France (down from 1,480th in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Mathematician.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gilles de Roberval ranks 220 out of 823. Before him are John Horton Conway, Tullio Levi-Civita, Pedro Nunes, Hugo Steinhaus, Menaechmus, and John Charles Fields. After him are Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Seymour Papert, Lloyd Shapley, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, and Thomas Abbt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Gilles de Roberval ranks 7. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin, Otto von Guericke, Elisabeth of France, Athanasius Kircher, Francesco Cavalli, and Philippe de Champaigne. After him are Salomon van Ruysdael, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Per Brahe the Younger, Zhu Yujian, and William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1675, Gilles de Roberval ranks 10. Before him are Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, James Gregory, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Thomas Willis, and Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Leopoldo de' Medici, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Feodosia Morozova, Gaspard Dughet, and Allaert van Everdingen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilles de Roberval ranks 1,557 out of 6,011. Before him are Yvette Guilbert (1865), Georg Muffat (1653), Henri de Lubac (1896), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594), and Claude Garamond (1499). After him are Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), Adam de la Halle (1245), Arman (1928), Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), and Liane de Pougy (1869).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Gilles de Roberval ranks 45. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Édouard Lucas (1842), and Élie Cartan (1869). After him are Henri Cartan (1904), Édouard Roche (1820), Émile Picard (1856), Michel Chasles (1793), Pierre Varignon (1654), and Antoine Gombaud (1607).

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