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Henri Brocard

1845 - 1922

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Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard (12 May 1845 – 16 January 1922) was a French meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name.Contemporary mathematician Nathan Court wrote that he, along with Émile Lemoine and Joseph Neuberg, was one of the three co-founders of modern triangle geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Brocard has received more than 22,747 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Henri Brocard is the 396th most popular mathematician (up from 494th in 2019), the 2,826th most popular biography from France (up from 3,059th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henri Brocard ranks 396 out of 823Before him are Pierre Wantzel, Albert Girard, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Jacques Tits, Alfred J. Lotka, and Ignazio Danti. After him are Ibn Sahl, Qin Jiushao, Caspar Wessel, Lennart Carleson, Helmut Hasse, and Grigory Margulis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Henri Brocard ranks 47Before him are Elihu Root, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Friedrich Martens, Émile Baudot, Àngel Guimerà, and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Ivan Puluj, Jules Guesde, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Harriet Backer, and Antonio Maceo Grajales. Among people deceased in 1922, Henri Brocard ranks 61Before him are Felip Pedrell, Joseph Oller, Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Kamo, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha. After him are Dimitrios Gounaris, Jules Guesde, Heinrich Rubens, Viktor Kingissepp, Michael Mayr, and Luigi Denza.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Brocard ranks 2,826 out of 6,011Before him are André Glucksmann (1937), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642), Itta of Metz (592), Michel Corrette (1707), and Jacques Brugnon (1895). After him are Jenny Longuet (1844), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Mélanie Laurent (1983), Olivier Martinez (1966), Michel Camdessus (1933), and Eugène de Mazenod (1782).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Henri Brocard ranks 70Before him are Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Pierre Wantzel (1814), and Albert Girard (1595). After him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jean Leray (1906), Yves Meyer (1939), and Johannes de Muris (1290).