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Jean-Étienne Montucla

1725 - 1799

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Jean-Étienne Montucla (5 September 1725 – 18 December 1799) was a French mathematician and historian. Montucla was born at Lyon, France. Career In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise on quadrature, Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du cercle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Étienne Montucla has received more than 31,420 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean-Étienne Montucla is the 490th most popular mathematician (up from 600th in 2019), the 3,292nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,706th in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 490 out of 1,004. Before him are Samuel Eilenberg, David Mumford, Moritz Pasch, Alfred Pringsheim, Friedrich Hirzebruch, and René de Saussure. After him are Johannes de Muris, Joseph Raphson, Stanisław Leśniewski, Pavel Urysohn, Pierre François Verhulst, and Theon of Smyrna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 23. Before him are Franz Moritz von Lacy, Arthur Guinness, Guillaume Le Gentil, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, and Johann Peter Beaulieu. After him are Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Duplessis, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Wilkes, Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Charles Townshend. Among people deceased in 1799, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 26. Before him are Johann Hedwig, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. After him are Patrick Henry, Giuseppe Parini, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Johann Julius Walbaum, William Curtis, and Alexander Bezborodko.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 3,292 out of 6,770. Before him are Beatrice of England (1242), Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (1831), Nicolas Mignard (1606), Annabella (1907), Vincent Lindon (1959), and Philippe Streiff (1955). After him are Pascal Lamy (1947), Antoine Berman (1942), Charles Rollin (1661), Johannes de Muris (1290), Casimir Delavigne (1793), and Joseph de Guignes (1721).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 76. Before him are Jacques Ozanam (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Yves Meyer (1939), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Jean Leray (1906), and René de Saussure (1868). After him are Johannes de Muris (1290), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Louis Bachelier (1870), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), and Pierre Fatou (1878).

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