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Marc-Antoine Parseval

1755 - 1836

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Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes (27 April 1755 – 16 August 1836) was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged the unitarity of the Fourier transform. He was born in Rosières-aux-Salines, France, into an aristocratic French family, and married Ursule Guerillot in 1795, but divorced her soon after. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc-Antoine Parseval has received more than 51,077 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Marc-Antoine Parseval is the 700th most popular mathematician, the 4,228th most popular biography from France and the 98th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 700 out of 1,004. Before him are Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Lewis Fry Richardson, Eduard Čech, Lady Byron, Jacques Tits, and Abu Said Gorgani. After him are Dmitry Grave, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Ennio de Giorgi, Helena Rasiowa, Francesco Faà di Bruno, and James Ivory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 43. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Stanisław Staszic, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Dorothea Viehmann, Nicolas Fuss, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret. After him are Jacques Labillardière, Nathan Hale, Johann Christoph Wendland, Oliver Evans, William Bradford, and Thomas Hardwicke. Among people deceased in 1836, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 45. Before him are William B. Travis, Edward Turner Bennett, Miguel Barragán, William Elford Leach, Stephen F. Austin, and Adolf Stieler. After him are Edward Livingston, Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Charles Wilkins, Emily Donelson, Dániel Berzsenyi, and John Pond.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 4,228 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Passy (1859), Manu Katché (1958), Michel Subor (1935), Ernst Stadler (1883), Serge Bourguignon (1928), and Marie Bell (1900). After him are Adrien Rommel (1914), Philippe Hériat (1898), Valentine Hugo (1887), Georges de la Falaise (1866), Francis de Miomandre (1880), and Virginie Ledoyen (1976).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Marc-Antoine Parseval ranks 98. Before him are Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Serge Lang (1927), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Victor Puiseux (1820), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), and Cédric Villani (1973).

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