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Pierre Bouguer

1698 - 1758

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Pierre Bouguer (French: [buˈge]) (16 February 1698, Le Croisic – 15 August 1758, Paris) was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bouguer has received more than 121,450 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Pierre Bouguer is the 165th most popular mathematician (up from 173rd in 2019), the 1,172nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre Bouguer was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work in the field of geodesy. He was one of the first scientists to study the Earth's gravitational field and the variation in gravity with altitude.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Bouguer ranks 165 out of 1,004. Before him are Giambattista della Porta, Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, André Weil, and James Joseph Sylvester. After him are George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Camille Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Pierre Bouguer ranks 6. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Colin Maclaurin, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. After him are Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jean Calas, and Erik Pontoppidan. Among people deceased in 1758, Pierre Bouguer ranks 4. Before him are Pope Benedict XIV, Barbara of Portugal, and Prince Augustus William of Prussia. After him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Hans Egede, Senesino, Jonathan Edwards, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Antoine de Jussieu, and Johan Helmich Roman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bouguer ranks 1,172 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paul Sérusier (1864), Sigebert II (602), Maurice Duverger (1917), and Claudette Colbert (1903). After him are Antipope Gregory VIII (1100), Gundobad (500), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne de Montmorency (1493), and Paulinus of Nola (354).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Bouguer ranks 33. Before him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), and André Weil (1906). After him are René Thom (1923), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Édouard Lucas (1842), and Jean Gaston Darboux (1842).

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