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Pierre Louis Maupertuis

1698 - 1759

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; French: [mopɛʁtɥi]; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great. Maupertuis made an expedition to Lapland to determine the shape of the Earth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Louis Maupertuis has received more than 267,248 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Pierre Louis Maupertuis is the 98th most popular mathematician (down from 96th in 2019), the 675th most popular biography from France (down from 655th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre Louis Maupertuis is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He is also known for being a mathematician and philosopher.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 98 out of 1,004. Before him are G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Thābit ibn Qurra. After him are Isaac Barrow, Grigori Perelman, Joan Clarke, Christian Goldbach, Willebrord Snellius, and Thomas Harriot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 1. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Colin Maclaurin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, 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 1759, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 4. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Ferdinand VI of Spain, and Louise Élisabeth of France. After him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Carl Heinrich Graun, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Alamgir II, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 675 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), Roger Guillemin (1924), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pope Stephen IX (1020), and Jean Jaurès (1859). After him are Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Paul Broca (1824), Paul Dukas (1865), and Vincent Auriol (1884).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 21. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661). After him are Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Jacques Hadamard (1865).

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