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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq

1842 - 1929

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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (pronounced [ʒozɛf valɑ̃tɛ̃ businɛsk]; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Valentin Boussinesq has received more than 76,326 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Valentin Boussinesq is the 558th most popular mathematician (down from 542nd in 2019), the 3,626th most popular biography from France (down from 3,453rd in 2019) and the 85th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 558 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Qalqashandi, Ronald Graham, Max Dehn, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Cahit Arf, and Henri Brocard. After him are Paul Bernays, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Gino Fano, Agner Krarup Erlang, Francesco Barozzi, and Ibrahim ibn Sinan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 68. Before him are Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Ellen Swallow Richards, Stojan Novaković, Heinrich Martin Weber, François Hennebique, and Georg Friedrich Knapp. After him are Antero de Quental, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Wilhelm Jordan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and Ernest Lavisse. Among people deceased in 1929, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 83. Before him are Charles F. Brush, Pierre Fatou, Leonard Hobhouse, Manuel Díaz, Amandus Adamson, and Wilhelm von Bode. After him are Agner Krarup Erlang, Ivo Vojnović, Otto Binswanger, Ernest Mason Satow, Julio Antonio Mella, and Basil III of Constantinople.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 3,626 out of 6,770. Before him are Germaine Tillion (1907), Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), Jean Martinon (1910), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), Henri Brocard (1845), and Georges Rayet (1839). After him are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Marcel Prévost (1862), Paul Gervais (1816), and Marc Levy (1961).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 85. Before him are Louis Bachelier (1870), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), and Henri Brocard (1845). After him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), and Arnaud Denjoy (1884).

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