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MATHEMATICIAN

Pierre Fatou

1878 - 1929

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Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou (28 February 1878 – 9 August 1929) was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Fatou has received more than 83,239 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pierre Fatou is the 459th most popular mathematician (up from 532nd in 2019), the 3,080th most popular biography from France (up from 3,210th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Fatou ranks 459 out of 823Before him are Enrico Betti, Auguste Kerckhoffs, John Hadley, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Thomas Bradwardine, and Geminus. After him are Roger Cotes, Maryam Mirzakhani, Whitfield Diffie, Adam Ries, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Hypsicles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pierre Fatou ranks 110Before him are Max Dehn, André Caplet, Stamen Grigorov, Glenn Curtiss, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. After him are Lina Stern, Victor Segalen, Konrad Mägi, Takeo Arishima, Agner Krarup Erlang, and Ernst Alexanderson. Among people deceased in 1929, Pierre Fatou ranks 71Before him are Elfrida Andrée, Raoul Pictet, Vasil Radoslavov, Tsuda Umeko, Clemens von Pirquet, and Lilli Lehmann. After him are Agner Krarup Erlang, Gustave Schlumberger, Wilhelm von Bode, Paul Leni, Lillie Langtry, and Charles Fox Parham.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 3,080 out of 6,011Before him are Marc Ferro (1924), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), Étienne Carjat (1828), William Waddington (1826), Marie-Joseph Lagrange (1855), and Daniel Guérin (1904). After him are Guy Marchand (1937), Marguerite Durand (1864), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Patachou (1918), Paul Poupard (1930), and Claude Pinoteau (1925).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 73Before him are Christian Kramp (1760), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Albert Girard (1595), Henri Brocard (1845), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), and Ismaël Bullialdus (1605). After him are Jean Leray (1906), Yves Meyer (1939), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Jacques Ozanam (1640).