1698 - 1759
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 176,820 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Louis Maupertuis is the 90th most popular mathematician (up from 92nd in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from France (up from 619th 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, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 90 out of 828. Before him are Pappus of Alexandria, Felix Klein, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Christian Goldbach, Bonaventura Cavalieri, and Guillaume de l'Hôpital. After him are Augustus De Morgan, Alexander Friedmann, Paul Erdős, Anthemius of Tralles, Isaac Barrow, and János Bolyai.
290 - 350
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 84
1849 - 1925
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 85
1752 - 1833
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 86
1690 - 1764
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 87
1598 - 1647
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 88
1661 - 1704
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 89
1698 - 1759
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 90
1806 - 1871
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 91
1888 - 1925
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 92
1913 - 1996
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 93
474 - 534
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 94
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 95
1802 - 1860
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 96
Among people born in 1698, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 1. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Pierre Bouguer, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Colin Maclaurin, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Riccardo Broschi, Erik Pontoppidan, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Jean Calas. 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, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Sedjefakare, James Wolfe, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Nicolaus I Bernoulli.
1698 - 1759
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 1
1698 - 1782
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 2
1698 - 1744
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 3
1698 - 1758
HPI: 70.28
Rank: 4
1698 - 1782
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 5
1698 - 1746
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 6
1698 - 1738
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 7
1698 - 1756
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 8
1698 - 1764
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 9
1698 - 1739
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 10
1698 - 1780
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 11
1698 - 1762
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 12
1685 - 1759
HPI: 89.20
Rank: 1
1713 - 1759
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 2
1727 - 1759
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 3
1698 - 1759
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 4
1709 - 1759
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1704 - 1759
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 6
1712 - 1759
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 7
1726 - 1759
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 8
1750 BC - 1759
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 9
1727 - 1759
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 10
1727 - 1759
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 11
1687 - 1759
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 617 out of 5,234. Before him are Alfred Jarry (1873), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Victor of Aveyron (1793), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677). After him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Syagrius (430), Peter Waldo (1140), William of Rubruck (1220), Darius Milhaud (1892), and Jacques Maritain (1882).
1873 - 1907
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 611
1524 - 1585
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 612
1793 - 1828
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 613
1464 - 1505
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 614
1661 - 1704
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 615
1677 - 1749
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 616
1698 - 1759
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 617
1741 - 1788
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 618
430 - 487
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 619
1140 - 1205
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 620
1220 - 1293
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 621
1892 - 1974
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 622
1882 - 1973
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 623
Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 21. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Alexis Clairaut (1713), and Joseph Liouville (1809).
1706 - 1749
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 15
1746 - 1818
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 16
1781 - 1840
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 17
1728 - 1777
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 18
1752 - 1833
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 19
1661 - 1704
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 20
1698 - 1759
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 21
1788 - 1867
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 22
1591 - 1661
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 23
1822 - 1901
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 24
1871 - 1956
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 25
1713 - 1765
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 26
1809 - 1882
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 27