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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 14,385 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger is the 690th most popular mathematician (down from 548th in 2019), the 4,069th most popular biography from France (down from 3,256th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 690 out of 823Before him are Viktor Sadovnichiy, Federigo Enriques, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Stanisław Zaremba, Cornelius Lanczos, and Eugenio Calabi. After him are Gladys West, Saharon Shelah, Dmitry Grave, Annie S. D. Maunder, Stanisław Mazur, and Alexander Esenin-Volpin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 41Before him are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, William Smith, William Davies Evans, Ignaz von Rudhart, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, and Melchor Múzquiz. After him are Letitia Christian Tyler, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, John Ross, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, Johann Jakob Heckel, and Tommaso Grossi. Among people deceased in 1874, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 42Before him are John Phillips, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Fritz Reuter, Vilém Blodek, Victor Baltard, and Heinrich von Kittlitz. After him are Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Richard Thomas Lowe, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, and Charles Sumner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 4,069 out of 6,011Before him are Renaud Lavillenie (1986), Alfred Manessier (1911), Adil Rami (1985), Presnel Kimpembe (1995), Karen Lancaume (1973), and Charles Fabry (1867). After him are Paul Passy (1859), Antoine de Caunes (1953), Karin Viard (1966), Hélène Vincent (1943), Jacques Miller (1931), and Madeleine Robinson (1917).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger ranks 95Before him are Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Charles Dupin (1784), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957). After him are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Victor Puiseux (1820), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), and Cédric Villani (1973).