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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 76,462 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bertrand is the 269th most popular mathematician (down from 259th in 2019), the 1,944th most popular biography from France (down from 1,824th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Bertrand ranks 269 out of 823Before him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Helge von Koch, Karen Uhlenbeck, Pavel Alexandrov, René-Louis Baire, and Igor Ansoff. After him are Tatyana Afanasyeva, Seki Takakazu, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Emil Artin, Liu Xin, and Shiing-Shen Chern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Joseph Bertrand ranks 30Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Robert Luther, and Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa. After him are Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Januária of Brazil, Joachim Raff, Nikolay Danilevsky, Fritz Müller, and Matthew Arnold. Among people deceased in 1900, Joseph Bertrand ranks 35Before him are Zdeněk Fibich, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Kuroda Kiyotaka, Samori Ture, Robert Luther, and Vasily Kalinnikov. After him are Eugenio Beltrami, Mihály Munkácsy, David Edward Hughes, Pyotr Lavrov, Henry Sidgwick, and Hermann Levi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Bertrand ranks 1,944 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Vanel (1892), Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais (1428), Jean-Pierre Jabouille (1942), Jean Castex (1965), Roland Bonaparte (1858), and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe (1747). After him are Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sacha Distel (1933), Jules Romains (1885), and Jacques Cathelineau (1759).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Bertrand ranks 53Before him are Édouard Roche (1820), Émile Picard (1856), Michel Chasles (1793), Pierre Varignon (1654), Antoine Gombaud (1607), and René-Louis Baire (1874). After him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Oronce Finé (1494), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Jean Dieudonné (1906).