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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 28,114 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean-Étienne Montucla is the 603rd most popular mathematician (down from 570th in 2019), the 3,722nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,347th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 603 out of 823. Before him are Joseph Raphson, Louis J. Mordell, Michael Artin, Alfred Pringsheim, Saunders Mac Lane, and Jürgen Moser. After him are Plato Tiburtinus, John Playfair, Alicia Boole Stott, Ludwig Bieberbach, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, and Jan Śniadecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 26. Before him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francesco Bartolozzi, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Joseph Duplessis, and John Wilkes. After him are George Mason, Ivan Osterman, Charles Townshend, William Duesbury, and Dru Drury. Among people deceased in 1799, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 31. Before him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier, William Curtis, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Johann Hedwig, Giuseppe Parini, and Francesco Mario Pagano. After him are Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Johann Julius Walbaum, William Withering, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Vasily Bazhenov, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 3,722 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Ragnotti (1945), Noël Bas (1877), Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668), Charles Dancla (1817), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), and René Llense (1913). After him are Pierre Bec (1921), Henri Callot (1875), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), Isaac de Benserade (1613), Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), and Françoise Rosay (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 90. Before him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678). After him are Charles Dupin (1784), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), and Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771).

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