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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 152,587 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Leray is the 477th most popular mathematician (up from 546th in 2019), the 3,166th most popular biography from France (up from 3,250th in 2019) and the 74th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Leray ranks 477 out of 823. Before him are Stanisław Leśniewski, George David Birkhoff, Edward Arthur Milne, Eric Temple Bell, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov. After him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Yves Meyer, David Mumford, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Aleksandr Khinchin, and Louis Nirenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jean Leray ranks 165. Before him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, H. C. Hansen, Yakov Malik, Endre Kabos, Paul Sacher, and Ulanhu. After him are Alexander Gode, Bob King, Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pietro Serantoni, and Renate Müller. Among people deceased in 1998, Jean Leray ranks 123. Before him are Hide, Haroun Tazieff, Sani Abacha, Qian Zhongshu, Jack Lord, and Keisuke Kinoshita. After him are Mahbub ul Haq, Phil Hartman, Hermann Prey, Jon Postel, Bertil Nordahl, and Gérard Grisey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Leray ranks 3,166 out of 6,011. Before him are Inès de La Fressange (1957), Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763), Alain Chartier (1392), Jean Richepin (1849), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), and Jean Delumeau (1923). After him are Stéphane Courtois (1947), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Yves Meyer (1939), Alain Barrière (1935), Gérard Darmon (1948), and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Leray ranks 74. Before him are Pierre Wantzel (1814), Albert Girard (1595), Henri Brocard (1845), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), and Pierre Fatou (1878). After him are Yves Meyer (1939), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Louis Bachelier (1870), Jacques Ozanam (1640), and René de Saussure (1868).

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