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Michel Chasles

1793 - 1880

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Michel Floréal Chasles (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl flɔʁeal ʃal]; 15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880) was a French mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Chasles has received more than 130,865 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Michel Chasles is the 218th most popular mathematician (up from 238th in 2019), the 1,498th most popular biography from France (up from 1,689th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michel Chasles ranks 218 out of 1,004. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Autolycus of Pitane, Willem de Sitter, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Callippus. After him are Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, Henry Briggs, Thomas Abbt, Anatoly Fomenko, and Maria Reiche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Michel Chasles ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Ján Kollár, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Josef Ressel, and Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira. After him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Constantine Kanaris, James Dunlop, Karl Lachmann, Sam Houston, and Radama I. Among people deceased in 1880, Michel Chasles ranks 10. Before him are George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, and Anselm Feuerbach. After him are Emperor Norton, Bettino Ricasoli, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Édouard Séguin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and John Sutter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Chasles ranks 1,498 out of 6,770. Before him are Fulk III, Count of Anjou (970), Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Yolande of Valois (1434), François Louis, Prince of Conti (1664), Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709), and Eugène Atget (1857). After him are René Just Haüy (1743), Paloma Picasso (1949), Bernard Courtois (1777), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), Jean Tirole (1953), and Henri, Prince of Condé (1552).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Michel Chasles ranks 44. Before him are Édouard Lucas (1842), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), and Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801). After him are Henri Cartan (1904), Pierre Varignon (1654), Élie Cartan (1869), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Joseph Bertrand (1822), and Émile Picard (1856).

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