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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 48,683 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe de La Hire is the 364th most popular mathematician (down from 335th in 2019), the 2,664th most popular biography from France (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 66th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Philippe de La Hire ranks 364 out of 823. Before him are Paul Émile Appell, Michael Maestlin, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Pierre Vernier, John G. Kemeny, and Marino Ghetaldi. After him are Emil Leon Post, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Jim Simons, David Cox, and Yang Hui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Philippe de La Hire ranks 11. Before him are Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, La Voisin, Pu Songling, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Gaspar Sanz, and Aphra Behn. After him are Antoine Coysevox, Abraham Mignon, Mariana Alcoforado, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Willem de Vlamingh, 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 Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Jacques Ozanam, Margherita Maria Farnese, and Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe de La Hire ranks 2,664 out of 6,011. Before him are Emmeram of Regensburg (600), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Daniel Buren (1938), André Marty (1886), and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819). After him are Olivier Assayas (1955), Pierre Rode (1774), Auguste Laurent (1807), Abraham Bosse (1604), Émile Baudot (1845), and François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Philippe de La Hire ranks 66. Before him are Paul Lévy (1886), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Alain Connes (1947), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Pierre Vernier (1580). After him are Christian Kramp (1760), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Albert Girard (1595), Henri Brocard (1845), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), and Ismaël Bullialdus (1605).

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