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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 115,803 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Rolle is the 133rd most popular mathematician (up from 144th in 2019), the 990th most popular biography from France (up from 1,037th in 2019) and the 28th 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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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michel Rolle ranks 133 out of 823Before him are Herbert A. Hauptman, Menelaus of Alexandria, Oliver Heaviside, Andrey Markov, Simplicius of Cilicia, and Alexis Clairaut. After him are Liu Hui, Robert Grosseteste, Jacques Hadamard, Joseph Liouville, Giambattista della Porta, and William Oughtred.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1652, Michel Rolle ranks 3Before 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, Johann Ernst Glück, Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Pavao Ritter Vitezović. Among people deceased in 1719, Michel Rolle ranks 4Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and John Flamsteed. After him are Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Joseph Addison, Boris Sheremetev, and Farrukhsiyar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 990 out of 6,011Before him are Alexis Clairaut (1713), Horace Vernet (1789), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Jacques Cassini (1677), Pierre Augereau (1757), and Eleanor of Provence (1223). After him are Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Theodore Beza (1519), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156), Jacques Demy (1931), and Princess Clémentine of Orléans (1817).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Michel Rolle ranks 28Before him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Alexis Clairaut (1713). After him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Joseph Liouville (1809), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), and André Weil (1906).