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Joseph Liouville

1809 - 1882

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Joseph Liouville (; French: [ʒɔzɛf ljuvil]; 24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician and engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Liouville has received more than 211,318 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Joseph Liouville is the 137th most popular mathematician (down from 127th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from France (down from 905th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Mathematician.

Joseph Liouville is most famous for his theorem on zeta functions and their connection to prime numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Liouville ranks 137 out of 823. Before him are Simplicius of Cilicia, Alexis Clairaut, Michel Rolle, Liu Hui, Robert Grosseteste, and Jacques Hadamard. After him are Giambattista della Porta, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, Robert Aumann, Johannes Trithemius, and Arthur Cayley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Joseph Liouville ranks 12. Before him are Nikolai Gogol, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, and William Ewart Gladstone. After him are Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Hermann Grassmann, Prince Albert of Prussia, Ljudevit Gaj, Juliusz Słowacki, and Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine. Among people deceased in 1882, Joseph Liouville ranks 14. Before him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bruno Bauer, Louis Blanc, Francesco Hayez, William Stanley Jevons, and Léon Gambetta. After him are Vasily Perov, Sergey Nechayev, Mary Todd Lincoln, Ewelina Hańska, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Liouville ranks 1,016 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), Clotilde of France (1759), Ambroise Thomas (1811), Carole Bouquet (1957), Léon Bourgeois (1851), and Maurice Denis (1870). After him are Abel Gance (1889), Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895), Éric Zemmour (1958), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Henri, Prince of Condé (1588), and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Liouville ranks 30. Before him are Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Michel Rolle (1652), and Jacques Hadamard (1865). After him are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), André Weil (1906), René Thom (1923), and Pierre Bouguer (1698).

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