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Girard Desargues

1591 - 1661

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Girard Desargues (French: [ʒiʁaʁ dezaʁɡ]; 21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Girard Desargues has received more than 91,345 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Girard Desargues is the 110th most popular mathematician, the 755th most popular biography from France (up from 787th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Mathematician.

Girard Desargues was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work on projective geometry.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Girard Desargues ranks 110 out of 1,004. Before him are Thomas Harriot, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Charles Hermite, Paul Ehrenfest, John Wallis, and Anthemius of Tralles. After him are Brook Taylor, János Bolyai, John Couch Adams, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, and Meton of Athens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1591, Girard Desargues ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa I, and Jusepe de Ribera. After him are Guercino, Louise de Marillac, Alexandre de Rhodes, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Valentin de Boulogne, Isabella of Savoy, Stanisław Koniecpolski, and Andrew Bobola. Among people deceased in 1661, Girard Desargues ranks 3. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin, and Shunzhi Emperor. After him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Vasile Lupu, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Zheng Zhilong, Andrea Sacchi, Louis Couperin, Jan Fyt, and Teimuraz I of Kakheti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Girard Desargues ranks 755 out of 6,770. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor (1726), François Mansart (1598), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Robert Doisneau (1912), Joan II of Navarre (1311), and Marie Laforêt (1939). After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Thomas Bangalter (1), and Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Girard Desargues ranks 23. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), and Charles Hermite (1822). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), and Henri Lebesgue (1875).

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