1725 - 1799
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, 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.
1648 - 1715
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 597
1888 - 1972
HPI: 48.80
Rank: 598
1934 - Present
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 599
1850 - 1941
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 600
1909 - 2005
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 601
1928 - 1999
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 602
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 603
1110 - 1145
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 604
1748 - 1819
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 605
1860 - 1940
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 606
1886 - 1982
HPI: 48.66
Rank: 607
1781 - 1864
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 608
1756 - 1830
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 609
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.
1725 - 1776
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 20
1725 - 1778
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 21
1725 - 1815
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 22
1725 - 1775
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 23
1725 - 1802
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 24
1725 - 1797
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 25
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 26
1725 - 1792
HPI: 48.05
Rank: 27
1725 - 1811
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 28
1725 - 1767
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 29
1725 - 1786
HPI: 42.45
Rank: 30
1725 - 1804
HPI: 41.17
Rank: 31
1715 - 1799
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 25
1746 - 1799
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 26
1722 - 1799
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 27
1730 - 1799
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 28
1729 - 1799
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 29
1748 - 1799
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 30
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 31
1761 - 1799
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 32
1724 - 1799
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 33
1741 - 1799
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 34
1726 - 1799
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 35
1737 - 1799
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 36
1731 - 1799
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 37
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).
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 3,716
1877 - 1960
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 3,717
1668 - 1751
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 3,718
1817 - 1907
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 3,719
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 3,720
1913 - 2014
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,721
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,722
1921 - 2014
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,723
1875 - 1956
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,724
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,725
1613 - 1691
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,726
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,727
1891 - 1974
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,728
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).
1581 - 1638
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 84
1797 - 1872
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 85
1816 - 1900
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 86
1517 - 1583
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 87
1783 - 1864
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 88
1678 - 1719
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 89
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 90
1784 - 1873
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 91
1884 - 1974
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 92
1956 - Present
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 93
1957 - 2016
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 94
1790 - 1874
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 95
1771 - 1859
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 96