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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 94,815 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jean Gaston Darboux is the 165th most popular mathematician (up from 182nd in 2019), the 1,198th most popular biography from France (up from 1,307th in 2019) and the 33rd 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 165 out of 823. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau, Étienne Bézout, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Mary Jackson, Rafael Bombelli, and Jost Bürgi. After him are Wacław Sierpiński, Zu Chongzhi, Colin Maclaurin, Conon of Samos, André Weil, and Wang Chong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 24. Before him are Carl von Linde, Georg Brandes, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Sophus Lie, Vasily Vereshchagin, and Arkhip Kuindzhi. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Giovanni Giolitti, Okita Sōji, Giovanni Boldini, Édouard Lucas, and Johannes Zukertort. Among people deceased in 1917, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 23. Before him are Dragutin Dimitrijević, Ludwig Minkus, Ranavalona III, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Dadabhai Naoroji, and Liliʻuokalani. After him are Radomir Putnik, Léon Bloy, Adolph Wagner, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Hugo Simberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 1,198 out of 6,011. Before him are Gérard Genette (1930), Max Linder (1883), Pierre Bergé (1930), Étienne Cabet (1788), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), and Louis Jacques Thénard (1777). After him are Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Sonia Rykiel (1930), Gérard Mourou (1944), Louis Jourdan (1921), and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Gaston Darboux ranks 33. Before him are Alexis Clairaut (1713), Michel Rolle (1652), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Joseph Liouville (1809), Gabriel Lamé (1795), and Étienne Bézout (1730). After him are André Weil (1906), René Thom (1923), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Camille Jordan (1838), and Étienne-Louis Malus (1775).

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