1788 - 1867
Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century. He later wrote an introduction to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie.As a mathematician, his most notable work was in projective geometry, although an early collaboration with Charles Julien Brianchon provided a significant contribution to Feuerbach's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Victor Poncelet has received more than 126,760 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Jean-Victor Poncelet is the 100th most popular mathematician (up from 105th in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from France (up from 747th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Mathematician.
Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French mathematician who is most famous for the development of the theory of projective geometry.
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Among mathematicians, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 100 out of 823. Before him are Joan Clarke, Siméon Denis Poisson, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Christian Goldbach, Thomas Harriot, and János Bolyai. After him are Gabriel Cramer, Hippocrates of Chios, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Lodovico Ferrari, John Couch Adams, and Thābit ibn Qurra.
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 94
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 95
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
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1690 - 1764
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 97
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 98
1802 - 1860
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 99
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 100
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 101
470 BC - 410 BC
HPI: 64.66
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1804 - 1851
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 103
1522 - 1565
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 104
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 105
836 - 901
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 106
Among people born in 1788, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 5. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Lord Byron, Sarah Baartman, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. After him are Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Robert Peel, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. Among people deceased in 1867, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 9. Before him are Charles Baudelaire, Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor Kōmei, Théodore Rousseau, Otto of Greece, and Franz Bopp. After him are Sakamoto Ryōma, Maria Theresa of Austria, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Elias Howe, Princess Sophie of Saxony, and Archduchess Mathilda of Austria.
1788 - 1860
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 2
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 3
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 4
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 5
1788 - 1851
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 6
1788 - 1855
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 7
1788 - 1819
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 8
1788 - 1850
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 9
1788 - 1836
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 10
1788 - 1865
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 11
1788 - 1831
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 12
1821 - 1867
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 3
1832 - 1867
HPI: 74.45
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1831 - 1867
HPI: 69.02
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1812 - 1867
HPI: 68.17
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1815 - 1867
HPI: 66.67
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1791 - 1867
HPI: 65.76
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1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
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1836 - 1867
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1816 - 1867
HPI: 63.48
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1831 - 1867
HPI: 59.77
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1819 - 1867
HPI: 59.57
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1845 - 1867
HPI: 59.29
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1849 - 1867
HPI: 58.97
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Among people born in France, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 714 out of 6,011. Before him are Maurice Chevalier (1888), Pierre Loti (1850), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Alexandre Millerand (1859), François Darlan (1881), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781). After him are Georges Sorel (1847), Raoul Dufy (1877), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Marin Marais (1656), Jean Giraud (1938), and Robert Doisneau (1912).
1888 - 1972
HPI: 64.95
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1850 - 1923
HPI: 64.92
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1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 710
1859 - 1943
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 711
1881 - 1942
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 712
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 713
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
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1847 - 1922
HPI: 64.87
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1877 - 1953
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 716
1736 - 1793
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 717
1656 - 1728
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 718
1938 - 2012
HPI: 64.83
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1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 720
Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 22. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698). After him are Girard Desargues (1591), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Alexis Clairaut (1713), and Michel Rolle (1652).
1728 - 1777
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 16
1752 - 1833
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 17
1661 - 1704
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 18
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 19
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 20
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 21
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 22
1591 - 1661
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 23
1822 - 1901
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 24
1871 - 1956
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 25
1875 - 1941
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 26
1713 - 1765
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 27
1652 - 1719
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 28