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Marin Mersenne

French polymath

1588 - 1648

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His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Marin Mersenne is the 61st most popular mathematician (down from 54th in 2024), the 391st most popular biography from France (down from 377th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Mathematician.

Marin Mersenne is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a French mathematician who lived from 1588 to 1648. He is most famous for his work on prime numbers.

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Marin Mersenne ranks #391 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 6% of that group.

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Marin Mersenne's biography appears in 54 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 91% of all Mathematicians.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Marin Mersenne ranks 61 out of 1,010. Before him are Sophie Germain, Friedrich Bessel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, and Sofia Kovalevskaya. After him are Émilie du Châtelet, Ludolph van Ceulen, Girard Desargues, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Richard Dedekind, and Johann Heinrich Lambert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Marin Mersenne ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Hobbes. After him are Constance of Austria, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Marina Mniszech, Henri, Prince of Condé, Isaac Beeckman, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Sharif ibn Ali, and Pierre Séguier. Among people deceased in 1648, Marin Mersenne ranks 4. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Christian IV of Denmark, and Władysław IV Vasa. After him are Tirso de Molina, George I Rákóczi, Joseph Calasanz, Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Qin Liangyu, and Vincent Voiture.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marin Mersenne ranks 391 out of 7,658. Before him are Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), François Arago (1786), Jean Arp (1886), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Ève Curie (1904). After him are Pierre Bonnard (1867), Charles Messier (1730), Jean Buridan (1295), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), and Raymond Kopa (1931).

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Among Mathematicians In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Marin Mersenne ranks 14. Before him are François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), and Sophie Germain (1776). After him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661).

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