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 224,643 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Pierre Louis Maupertuis is the 96th most popular mathematician (down from 90th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from France (down from 616th 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 96 out of 823. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Émilie du Châtelet, Stefan Banach, Leopold Kronecker, Joan Clarke, and Siméon Denis Poisson. After him are Christian Goldbach, Thomas Harriot, János Bolyai, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Gabriel Cramer, and Hippocrates of Chios.
1661 - 1704
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 90
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 91
1892 - 1945
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 92
1823 - 1891
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 93
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 94
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 95
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 96
1690 - 1764
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 97
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 98
1802 - 1860
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 99
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 100
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 101
470 BC - 410 BC
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1698, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 1. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Guarneri, Riccardo Broschi, Colin Maclaurin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Erik Pontoppidan, and Jean Calas. Among people deceased in 1759, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 3. Before him are George Frideric Handel and Ferdinand VI of Spain. After him are Louise Élisabeth of France, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Carl Heinrich Graun, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Sedjefakare, and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 1
1698 - 1782
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 2
1698 - 1744
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 3
1698 - 1756
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 4
1698 - 1746
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 5
1698 - 1782
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 6
1698 - 1758
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 7
1698 - 1738
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 8
1698 - 1739
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 9
1698 - 1780
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 10
1698 - 1764
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 11
1698 - 1762
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 12
1685 - 1759
HPI: 84.66
Rank: 1
1713 - 1759
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 2
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 3
1727 - 1759
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 4
1709 - 1759
HPI: 59.82
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1704 - 1759
HPI: 58.09
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1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.28
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1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.27
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1703 - 1759
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 9
1726 - 1759
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 10
1750 BC - 1759
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 11
1727 - 1759
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 656 out of 6,011. Before him are François Ravaillac (1578), Agnès Sorel (1422), Jacques Charles (1763), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Gabriel Tarde (1843), and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528). After him are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Darius Milhaud (1892), Dom Pérignon (1639), Louis Blériot (1872), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), and René Clair (1898).
1578 - 1610
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 650
1422 - 1450
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 651
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 652
1766 - 1847
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 653
1843 - 1904
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 654
1528 - 1580
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 655
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 656
1611 - 1675
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 657
1892 - 1974
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 658
1639 - 1715
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 659
1872 - 1936
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 660
1905 - 1991
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 661
1898 - 1981
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 662
Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis ranks 21. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Alexis Clairaut (1713).
1811 - 1877
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 15
1728 - 1777
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 16
1752 - 1833
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 17
1661 - 1704
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 18
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 19
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 20
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 21
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 22
1591 - 1661
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 23
1822 - 1901
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 24
1871 - 1956
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 25
1875 - 1941
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 26
1713 - 1765
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 27