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Jean-Robert Argand

1768 - 1822

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Jean-Robert Argand (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁɔbɛʁ aʁɡɑ̃]; July 18, 1768 – August 13, 1822) was a Genevan amateur mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Robert Argand has received more than 105,962 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jean-Robert Argand is the 254th most popular mathematician (up from 260th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 160th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Robert Argand ranks 254 out of 1,004. Before him are Émile Picard, Edmund Landau, Jabir ibn Aflah, Jacopo Riccati, Édouard Roche, and Abraham Zacuto. After him are Alfred Korzybski, Michael Stifel, Hugo Steinhaus, Guo Shoujing, Andreas Osiander, and Hans Hahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Jean-Robert Argand ranks 17. Before him are Lazare Hoche, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Tecumseh, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Nakşidil Sultan, and Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom. After him are Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Peter Wittgenstein, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Joseph Anton Koch, and Wang Zhenyi. Among people deceased in 1822, Jean-Robert Argand ranks 16. Before him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein. After him are Sophie de Condorcet, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Slimane of Morocco, Bathilde d'Orléans, Platon Zubov, and Dmitry Levitzky.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean-Robert Argand ranks 162 out of 1,015. Before him are Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), Ernest Bloch (1880), Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919), Charles Bally (1865), Kurt Huber (1893), and Édouard Claparède (1873). After him are Ernest Ansermet (1883), Robert Frank (1924), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Marc Allégret (1900), Ueli Maurer (1950), and Peter Sauber (1943).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jean-Robert Argand ranks 9. Before him are Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), and Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695). After him are Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jakob Hermann (1678), and Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687).

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