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Henri Poincaré

1854 - 1912

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Jules Henri Poincaré (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃ʁi pwɛ̃kaʁe] ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. He has further been called the "Gauss of modern mathematics". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Poincaré has received more than 2,018,043 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Henri Poincaré is the 19th most popular mathematician, the 128th most popular biography from France (down from 125th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Mathematician.

Henri Poincaré is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He is credited with laying the foundations of topology and introducing the Poincaré conjecture, which was one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics until it was solved by Grigori Perelman in 2003.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henri Poincaré ranks 19 out of 1,004. Before him are Fibonacci, Pierre de Fermat, Niels Henrik Abel, Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, and Srinivasa Ramanujan. After him are Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Luca Pacioli, John von Neumann, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Henri Poincaré ranks 4. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, and Pope Benedict XV. After him are Leoš Janáček, Emil von Behring, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Kautsky, Henri La Fontaine, James George Frazer, Paul Sabatier, and Milan I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1912, Henri Poincaré ranks 3. Before him are Emperor Meiji, and August Strindberg. After him are Frederick VIII of Denmark, Jules Massenet, Frédéric Passy, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, Karl May, Thomas Andrews, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Robert Falcon Scott.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Poincaré ranks 128 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Hugh Capet (940), Charles VI of France (1368), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), and Louis XII of France (1462). After him are Saint Sebastian (300), Joseph Fourier (1768), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Paul Verlaine (1844), Albert Schweitzer (1875), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Henri Poincaré ranks 4. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749). After him are Joseph Fourier (1768), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), and Marin Mersenne (1588).

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