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Jean-Étienne Montucla

French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)

1725 - 1799

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His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Jean-Étienne Montucla is the 560th most popular mathematician (down from 490th in 2024), the 3,403rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,291st in 2019) and the 83rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 560 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Nayrizi, Johann Baptist Cysat, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Johann Samuel König, Athir al-Din al-Abhari, and Samuel Eilenberg. After him are Pál Turán, D. R. Kaprekar, Solomon Lefschetz, Isadore Singer, Louis J. Mordell, and Giovanni Battista Zupi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 23. Before him are Franz Moritz von Lacy, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Guillaume Le Gentil, Arthur Guinness, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, and Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Joseph Duplessis, Johann Peter Beaulieu, John Wilkes, Francesco Bartolozzi, Charles Townshend, and George Mason. Among people deceased in 1799, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 29. Before him are Claude Balbastre, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Patrick Henry, Johann Hedwig, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, and William Curtis. After him are Giuseppe Parini, Johann Julius Walbaum, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, William Withering, Francesco Mario Pagano, and Alexander Bezborodko.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 3,403 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Foix (1453), Jorge Chávez (1887), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), François de Tournon (1489), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), and Zacharie Astruc (1833). After him are Peter II, Duke of Brittany (1418), Jacques Dupont (1928), Albert Ayat (1875), Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), and Armand Salacrou (1899).

Among Mathematicians In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Étienne Montucla ranks 83. Before him are Pierre Vernier (1580), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Henri Brocard (1845), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Jean Leray (1906), and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790). After him are Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre Fatou (1878), and Jacques Herbrand (1908).

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