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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger

1790 - 1874

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Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger (4 April 1790 – 8 May 1874) was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France. In hydraulic engineering, he is often credited improperly for the application of the momentum principle to a hydraulic jump in a rectangular open channel in 1828. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger has received more than 15,078 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger is the 702nd most popular mathematician (down from 687th in 2019), the 4,237th most popular biography from France (down from 4,053rd in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 702 out of 1,004. Before him are Eduard Čech, Lady Byron, Jacques Tits, Abu Said Gorgani, Marc-Antoine Parseval, and Dmitry Grave. After him are Ennio de Giorgi, Helena Rasiowa, Francesco Faà di Bruno, James Ivory, Al-Birjandi, and Federigo Enriques.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 43. Before him are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Ignaz von Rudhart, Melchor Múzquiz, and Jean René Constant Quoy. After him are Juan Álvarez, Letitia Christian Tyler, Abel P. Upshur, Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz, William Davies Evans, and John Ross. Among people deceased in 1874, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 42. Before him are Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Heinrich von Kittlitz, John Phillips, Fritz Reuter, and Victor Baltard. After him are Vilém Blodek, Jean Cruveilhier, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Charles-Mathias Simons, Sylvain Van de Weyer, and Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 4,237 out of 6,770. Before him are Valentine Hugo (1887), Georges de la Falaise (1866), Francis de Miomandre (1880), Virginie Ledoyen (1976), Henri Oreiller (1925), and Roger Marche (1924). After him are Jean Debucourt (1894), Jacques Noël (1920), Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1842), Annette Messager (1943), Auguste Giroux (1874), and Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 99. Before him are Serge Lang (1927), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), and Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755). After him are Victor Puiseux (1820), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), Cédric Villani (1973), and Laurent Lafforgue (1966).

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