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Philippe de La Hire

1640 - 1718

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Philippe de La Hire (or Lahire, La Hyre or Phillipe de La Hire) (18 March 1640 – 21 April 1718) was a French painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself". He was born in Paris, the son of Laurent de La Hire, a distinguished artist and Marguerite Coquin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe de La Hire has received more than 53,638 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Philippe de La Hire is the 405th most popular mathematician (down from 364th in 2019), the 2,800th most popular biography from France (down from 2,655th in 2019) and the 65th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Philippe de La Hire ranks 405 out of 1,004. Before him are Benedetto Castelli, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Enrico Betti, Richard S. Hamilton, Hans Freudenthal, and Bhāskara I. After him are Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Mary Cartwright, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, and Carl Ludwig Siegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Philippe de La Hire ranks 14. Before him are Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Gaspar Sanz, Aphra Behn, Antoine Coysevox, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and Abraham Mignon. After him are Mariana Alcoforado, Jacques Ozanam, Willem de Vlamingh, Gerard de Lairesse, Claude Fleury, and Georg Mohr. Among people deceased in 1718, Philippe de La Hire ranks 8. Before him are Blackbeard, Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Mary of Modena, William Penn, Stede Bonnet, and Vincenzo Coronelli. After him are Jacques Ozanam, Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Devlet II Giray, Margherita Maria Farnese, and Jan Brokoff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe de La Hire ranks 2,800 out of 6,770. Before him are Catulle Mendès (1841), François Séverin Marceau (1769), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Odo of Bayeux (1036), André Marty (1886), and Marie of the Incarnation (1566). After him are Claire Lacombe (1765), Théophraste Renaudot (1586), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Seán MacBride (1904), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Charles Mangin (1866).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Philippe de La Hire ranks 65. Before him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Albert Girard (1595), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797). After him are Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Ozanam (1640), and Christian Kramp (1760).

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