MATHEMATICIAN

Michel Rolle

1652 - 1719

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Michel Rolle (21 April 1652 – 8 November 1719) was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Rolle has received more than 124,616 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Michel Rolle is the 154th most popular mathematician (down from 133rd in 2019), the 1,074th most popular biography from France (down from 987th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Mathematician.

Michel Rolle is most famous for being the first black player to play in the French National Football team.

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  • 62.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michel Rolle ranks 154 out of 1,004. Before him are Andrey Markov, Edward Norton Lorenz, Wang Chong, Joseph Liouville, Scipione del Ferro, and Robert Grosseteste. After him are Vladimir Arnold, Arthur Cayley, Menelaus of Alexandria, Robert Aumann, Giambattista della Porta, and Simplicius of Cilicia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1652, Michel Rolle ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement XII, and Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine. After him are Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Boris Sheremetev, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental, Cornelis de Bruijn, Thomas Otway, Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Johann Ernst Glück. Among people deceased in 1719, Michel Rolle ranks 5. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, and Benjamin Hornigold. After him are Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Boris Sheremetev, Arnold Houbraken, and Joseph Addison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 1,074 out of 6,770. Before him are Lazare Hoche (1768), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Claude Jade (1948), and Thomas Couture (1815). After him are Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756), Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082), Theudebert II (585), Desireless (1952), Johannes Tauler (1300), and Christine of France (1606).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 31. Before him are Alexis Clairaut (1713), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Joseph Liouville (1809). After him are André Weil (1906), Pierre Bouguer (1698), René Thom (1923), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), and Jean-Pierre Serre (1926).

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