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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 89,297 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Fatou is the 547th most popular mathematician (down from 458th in 2019), the 3,554th most popular biography from France (down from 3,069th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Fatou ranks 547 out of 1,004Before him are D. R. Kaprekar, Luis Caffarelli, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Louis Nirenberg, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, and Aleksandr Khinchin. After him are Max August Zorn, John Tate, Chen Jingrun, Jacques Herbrand, Al-Qalqashandi, and Ronald Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pierre Fatou ranks 130Before him are Victor Segalen, Julie Manet, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Alexander Svechin, Massimo Bontempelli, and Chen Jiongming. After him are Anna Coleman Ladd, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Max Dehn, Agner Krarup Erlang, Karl Hofer, and Glenn Curtiss. Among people deceased in 1929, Pierre Fatou ranks 78Before him are Nasreddine Dinet, Frederick Abberline, Gunnar Heiberg, Hans Meyer, Archibald Reiss, and Charles F. Brush. After him are Leonard Hobhouse, Manuel Díaz, Amandus Adamson, Wilhelm von Bode, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, and Agner Krarup Erlang.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 3,554 out of 6,770Before him are Jacques Aved (1702), Bulle Ogier (1939), François Delsarte (1811), Jacques Rozier (1926), Patachou (1918), and François Francoeur (1698). After him are Jean Delumeau (1923), Jehanne D'Alcy (1865), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Gérard Grisey (1946), Léo Malet (1909), and François de Troy (1645).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 82Before him are Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Louis Bachelier (1870), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Ismaël Bullialdus (1605). After him are Jacques Herbrand (1908), Henri Brocard (1845), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), and Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517).