MATHEMATICIAN

Joseph Bertrand

1822 - 1900

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Joseph Louis François Bertrand (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf lwi fʁɑ̃swa bɛʁtʁɑ̃]; 11 March 1822 – 5 April 1900) was a French mathematician whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bertrand has received more than 82,924 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Joseph Bertrand is the 244th most popular mathematician (up from 269th in 2019), the 1,777th most popular biography from France (up from 1,937th in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Bertrand ranks 244 out of 1,004. Before him are Farkas Bolyai, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Seki Takakazu, Robert Recorde, and John Charles Fields. After him are Ibn al-Shatir, Simon Newcomb, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Émile Picard, Edmund Landau, and Jabir ibn Aflah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Joseph Bertrand ranks 28. Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Red Cloud, Juan, Count of Montizón, Henri Murger, and Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale. After him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Charles Friedel, Joachim Raff, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, and Princess Januária of Brazil. Among people deceased in 1900, Joseph Bertrand ranks 30. Before him are José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Birsa Munda, Kuroda Kiyotaka, Armand David, Samori Ture, and Princess Josephine of Baden. After him are Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Zdeněk Fibich, Stephen Crane, Vasily Kalinnikov, and Mihály Munkácsy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Bertrand ranks 1,777 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Anne Desclos (1907), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Lambert Wilson (1958), Pierre Belon (1517), and Joseph Fesch (1763). After him are Hervé Villechaize (1943), Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (1434), Julian the Hospitaller (700), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), Maurice Herzog (1919), and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Bertrand ranks 49. Before him are Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Pierre Varignon (1654), Élie Cartan (1869), and Gilles de Roberval (1602). After him are Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), and Alain Connes (1947).

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