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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 99,323 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacques Philippe Marie Binet is the 421st most popular mathematician (down from 394th in 2019), the 2,918th most popular biography from France (down from 2,631st in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 421 out of 823. Before him are Luigi Cremona, Viggo Brun, Adriaan van Roomen, John Vitéz, Karl Mollweide, and Lars Hörmander. After him are Goro Shimura, Otto Hölder, Mihailo Petrović, Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, and Dinostratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 34. Before him are Gregor MacGregor, Albrecht Adam, Nicolás Bravo, Agustina de Aragón, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Marc Seguin. After him are Joachim Lelewel, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Sergey Uvarov, William R. King, and Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov. Among people deceased in 1856, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 30. Before him are Pyotr Chaadayev, Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, William Buckland, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Johann Kaspar Mertz, and Karel Havlíček Borovský. After him are Wilhelm von Biela, Emil Aarestrup, Vicente López y Planes, Henry Pottinger, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, and Agostino Bassi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 2,918 out of 6,011. Before him are Antoine Berman (1942), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Jean Eustache (1938), Marie-José Nat (1940), Serge Dassault (1925), and André-Louis Debierne (1874). After him are Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Pierre Benoit (1886), Henri Maspero (1883), Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), and Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet ranks 71. Before him are Pierre Vernier (1580), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Albert Girard (1595), and Henri Brocard (1845). After him are Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jean Leray (1906), Yves Meyer (1939), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jacques Herbrand (1908).

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