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Jean Gaston Darboux

1842 - 1917

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Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Gaston Darboux has received more than 99,906 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Gaston Darboux is the 189th most popular mathematician (down from 165th in 2019), the 1,330th most popular biography from France (down from 1,194th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Mathematician.

Jean Gaston Darboux is most famous for his work on differential geometry. He is credited with the invention of the Darboux integral and the Darboux theorem.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 189 out of 1,004. Before him are James Gregory, Menaechmus, Vito Volterra, Jan Łukasiewicz, Ahmes, and Georg von Peuerbach. After him are Hermann Grassmann, Abu Nasr Mansur, Jakob Steiner, Gabriel Lamé, Theaetetus, and Abu Zayd al-Balkhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 28. Before him are Sophus Lie, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Édouard Lucas, and Arkhip Kuindzhi. After him are Giovanni Boldini, Johannes Zukertort, Gaston, Count of Eu, Alphonse Borrelly, Vilhelm Thomsen, and Mykola Lysenko. Among people deceased in 1917, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 25. Before him are Ranavalona III, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, Liliʻuokalani, Dadabhai Naoroji, and Léon Bloy. After him are Adolph Wagner, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Hugo Simberg, Lucien Petit-Breton, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Émile Boirac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 1,330 out of 6,770. Before him are Constance of Arles (974), Louis, Count of Vendôme (1376), Kylian Mbappé (1998), Joachim du Bellay (1522), Yves Tanguy (1900), and William Farel (1489). After him are Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Ansegisel (602), John III of Navarre (1477), Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187), Jaufre Rudel (1125), and René Arnoux (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 39. Before him are Pierre Bouguer (1698), René Thom (1923), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), and Édouard Lucas (1842). After him are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), and Henri Cartan (1904).

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