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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 39,159 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pierre Alphonse Laurent is the 325th most popular mathematician (up from 329th in 2019), the 2,348th most popular biography from France (down from 2,295th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 325 out of 823. Before him are Gaston Julia, Ernesto Cesàro, Theodor Kaluza, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Jacques Charles François Sturm, and Isaac Beeckman. After him are John Milnor, Sergei Sobolev, Kunihiko Kodaira, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Jean Dieudonné, and Guidobaldo del Monte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 26. Before him are Juan Pablo Duarte, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, James Dwight Dana, Frédéric Ozanam, and Auguste Maquet. After him are Matthias Castrén, Pōmare IV, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Jørgen Moe, Frederick Scott Archer, and Adolph Kolping. Among people deceased in 1854, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 16. Before him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Zénaïde Bonaparte, John Martin, Marcellin Marbot, and Almeida Garrett. After him are Kamehameha III, Fructuoso Rivera, Nicolás Bravo, Émilie de Villeneuve, Jeremias Gotthelf, and Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 2,348 out of 6,011. Before him are Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Catherine of Burgundy (1378), Georges Ohnet (1848), Henri Mouhot (1826), Élisabeth Depardieu (1941), and Duke Philipp of Württemberg (1838). After him are André Tardieu (1876), Marie of the Incarnation (1566), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Peter I, Duke of Brittany (1191), Peter John Olivi (1248), and Beatrice of Lorraine (1017).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Alphonse Laurent ranks 57. Before him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Guillaume Postel (1510), Oronce Finé (1494), and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797). After him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Paul Lévy (1886), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Alain Connes (1947), and Maurice René Fréchet (1878).

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