MATHEMATICIAN

Jacques Pelletier du Mans

1517 - 1583

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Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier (Latin: Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Pelletier du Mans has received more than 31,242 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Pelletier du Mans is the 635th most popular mathematician (down from 575th in 2019), the 3,972nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,606th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Pelletier du Mans ranks 635 out of 1,004Before him are Robert Simson, Elias M. Stein, Alexander Gelfond, Ingrid Daubechies, Hilda Geiringer, and Joseph Diez Gergonne. After him are Mark Krein, Paul Neményi, Paul Gordan, Harold Hotelling, Georg Stiernhielm, and Vera T. Sós.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1517, Jacques Pelletier du Mans ranks 12Before him are Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Li Shizhen, Pierre Belon, Rembert Dodoens, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, and Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk.  Among people deceased in 1583, Jacques Pelletier du Mans ranks 18Before him are Andrey Kurbsky, Antoinette de Bourbon, Juan de Garay, Humphrey Gilbert, Zacharias Ursinus, and Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels. After him is Thomas Erastus.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Pelletier du Mans ranks 3,972 out of 6,770Before him are J. R. D. Tata (1904), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Guy de la Chapelle (1868), Léon Delagrange (1872), Dominique Fernandez (1929), and Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771). After him are Ratramnus (800), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), André Lerond (1930), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), and Pierre Michon (1945).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Pelletier du Mans ranks 88Before him are Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Henri Brocard (1845), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), and Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771). After him are Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Serge Lang (1927), and Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765).