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Pierre Vernier

1580 - 1637

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Pierre Vernier (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ vɛʁnje]; 19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté (at that time ruled by the Spanish Habsburgs, now part of France) – 14 September 1637, same location) was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Vernier has received more than 158,926 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pierre Vernier is the 431st most popular mathematician (down from 361st in 2019), the 2,986th most popular biography from France (down from 2,636th in 2019) and the 67th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Vernier ranks 431 out of 1,004. Before him are Alfred Clebsch, Luigi Cremona, Dinostratus, Paul Émile Appell, Johannes Werner, and Mihailo Petrović. After him are Martin Kutta, Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, Thomas Bradwardine, Nikolai Luzin, and Athir al-Din al-Abhari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Pierre Vernier ranks 15. Before him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Cristóvão Ferreira, Augusta of Denmark, Andrea Falconieri, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, and Ustad Ahmad Lahori. After him are Daniël Heinsius, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, António de Andrade, Matei Basarab, and Carlo Contarini. Among people deceased in 1637, Pierre Vernier ranks 12. Before him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Isaac Beeckman, Robert Fludd, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, and Péter Pázmány. After him are Theodoor Rombouts, and Lorenzo Ruiz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 2,986 out of 6,770. Before him are Albert Robida (1848), Étienne Decroux (1898), Roberto Alagna (1963), Constance of France, Princess of Antioch (1078), Sophie Calle (1953), and Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825). After him are Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950), Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), William IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), and Charles Nungesser (1892).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 67. Before him are Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Albert Girard (1595), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Philippe de La Hire (1640), and Paul Émile Appell (1855). After him are Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Ozanam (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Yves Meyer (1939), and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786).

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