MATHEMATICIAN

Jean Leray

1906 - 1998

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Jean Leray (French: [ləʁɛ]; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Leray has received more than 159,799 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jean Leray is the 465th most popular mathematician (up from 476th in 2019), the 3,136th most popular biography from France (up from 3,154th in 2019) and the 74th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Leray ranks 465 out of 1,004. Before him are William Kingdon Clifford, Adriaan van Roomen, Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, Yutaka Taniyama, and Frigyes Riesz. After him are Eric Temple Bell, Isadore Singer, Hermann Hankel, Raoul Bott, Daniele Barbaro, and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jean Leray ranks 162. Before him are Andrei Kirilenko, Dmitry Likhachov, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Francisco Ayala, Marian Spychalski, and Eddie Albert. After him are Raymond Sommer, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Aileen Riggin, Anšlavs Eglītis, José Della Torre, and James Quinn. Among people deceased in 1998, Jean Leray ranks 116. Before him are Birger Ruud, Hide, Clara Rockmore, Anatoly Rybakov, Genrich Altshuller, and Mancur Olson. After him are Bahi Ladgham, Hans von Ohain, Theodor Oberländer, Jerome Robbins, Louis Dumont, and Lia Manoliu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Leray ranks 3,136 out of 6,770. Before him are Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza (1941), Beatus Rhenanus (1485), Peter Chanel (1803), Itta of Metz (592), Renaud (1952), and Claude Le Jeune (1528). After him are Salomon de Brosse (1571), Henri Lebasque (1865), Auguste Barbier (1805), Raymond Sommer (1906), Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908), and Madeleine Lebeau (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Leray ranks 74. Before him are Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Ozanam (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Yves Meyer (1939), and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786). After him are René de Saussure (1868), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Charles Julien Brianchon (1783).

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