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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

1786 - 1856

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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (French: [binɛ]; 2 February 1786 – 12 May 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important contributions by Cayley and others. In his memoir on the theory of the conjugate axis and of the moment of inertia of bodies he enumerated the principle now known as Binet's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Philippe Marie Binet has received more than 105,288 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jacques Philippe Marie Binet is the 451st most popular mathematician (down from 420th in 2019), the 3,086th most popular biography from France (down from 2,909th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 451 out of 1,004. Before him are Whitfield Diffie, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Oscar Zariski, and Yves Meyer. After him are Francesco Maurolico, Yang Hui, William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, and Yuri Manin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 32. Before him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Nicolás Bravo, Joachim Lelewel, Justinus Kerner, Marc Seguin, and Agustina de Aragón. After him are Sergey Uvarov, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Gregor MacGregor, Albrecht Adam, and Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol. Among people deceased in 1856, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 31. Before him are Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, John Ross, William Buckland, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, and Wilhelm von Biela. After him are Emil Aarestrup, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, and Julie Guicciardi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 3,086 out of 6,770. Before him are Simon Marmion (1425), Jean Richepin (1849), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Yves Meyer (1939), Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), and Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498). After him are Armand Salacrou (1899), Jean-François Revel (1924), Pierre Bézier (1910), Jacques Hamel (1930), Francis Garnier (1839), and Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 73. Before him are Pierre Vernier (1580), Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Ozanam (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), and Yves Meyer (1939). After him are Jean Leray (1906), René de Saussure (1868), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), and Louis Bachelier (1870).

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