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Pierre Varignon

1654 - 1722

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Pierre Varignon (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ vaʁiɲɔ̃]; 1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Varignon has received more than 56,236 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Pierre Varignon is the 226th most popular mathematician (up from 248th in 2019), the 1,592nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,778th in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Varignon ranks 226 out of 1,004. Before him are Henri Cartan, Henry Briggs, Thomas Abbt, Anatoly Fomenko, Maria Reiche, and Israel Gelfand. After him are L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, Piet Hein, and Joseph Petzval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1654, Pierre Varignon ranks 5. Before him are Kangxi Emperor, Jacob Bernoulli, Emperor Reigen, and Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme. After him are Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Agostino Steffani, Constantin Brâncoveanu, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Danylo Apostol, and John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Among people deceased in 1722, Pierre Varignon ranks 8. Before him are Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Bartholomew Roberts, John Toland, Johann Adam Reincken, and Johann Kuhnau. After him are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Claude Gillot, Adriaen van der Werff, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Varignon ranks 1,592 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne Gonzaga (1616), Julien Duvivier (1896), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Séraphine Louis (1864), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), and Émile Chartier (1868). After him are Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269), Armand David (1826), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Philippa of Hainault (1314), and Pierre Mendès France (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Varignon ranks 46. Before him are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), and Henri Cartan (1904). After him are Élie Cartan (1869), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), and Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816).

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