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Pierre Alphonse Laurent

1813 - 1854

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Pierre Alphonse Laurent (18 July 1813 – 2 September 1854) was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer best known for discovering the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His father, Pierre Michel Laurent (1769 – 1841) was French, whereas his mother, Eleanor Cheshire (1778 – 1840) was English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Alphonse Laurent has received more than 42,050 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Alphonse Laurent is the 397th most popular mathematician (down from 325th in 2019), the 2,736th most popular biography from France (down from 2,340th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 397 out of 1,004. Before him are John G. Kemeny, Stephen Cole Kleene, Raymond Smullyan, Qin Jiushao, Campanus of Novara, and Lars Hörmander. After him are Richard Hamming, Benedetto Castelli, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Enrico Betti, Richard S. Hamilton, and Hans Freudenthal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 31. Before him are Matthias Castrén, Jørgen Moe, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Auguste Maquet, Frédéric Ozanam, and Pōmare IV. After him are Agostino Depretis, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, William Smith, Adolph Kolping, and Alexander Parkes. Among people deceased in 1854, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 19. Before him are Fructuoso Rivera, John Martin, Kamehameha III, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, and Jeremias Gotthelf. After him are Samuel Wilson, Nicolás Bravo, Vatroslav Lisinski, Émilie de Villeneuve, Silvio Pellico, and Joseph de Villèle.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 2,736 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), Gershom ben Judah (960), Patrick Battiston (1957), Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons (1606), Ludovic Halévy (1834), and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788). After him are Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944), Frédéric François-Marsal (1874), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Bernard Stiegler (1952), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), and Paul Émile Chabas (1869).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 63. Before him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), and Albert Girard (1595). After him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Paul Lévy (1886), and Pierre Wantzel (1814).

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