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Pierre Vernier

1580 - 1637

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Pierre Vernier (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 146,334 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Vernier is the 361st most popular mathematician (up from 429th in 2019), the 2,645th most popular biography from France (up from 2,770th in 2019) and the 65th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Vernier ranks 361 out of 823. Before him are Philipp Frank, Sergei Novikov, James Stirling, Paul Émile Appell, Michael Maestlin, and Carl Ludwig Siegel. After him are John G. Kemeny, Marino Ghetaldi, Philippe de La Hire, Emil Leon Post, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Pierre Vernier ranks 12. Before him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Ernst von Mansfeld, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Andrea Falconieri, and Augusta of Denmark. After him are António de Andrade, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Daniël Heinsius, Matei Basarab, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, and Carlo Contarini. Among people deceased in 1637, Pierre Vernier ranks 10. Before him are Ben Jonson, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Robert Fludd, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Isaac Beeckman. After him are Péter Pázmány and Lorenzo Ruiz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 2,645 out of 6,011. Before him are Hervé Renard (1968), Philippe LeBon (1767), Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746), Boniface, Count of Savoy (1244), Alan Stivell (1944), and Charles Plumier (1646). After him are Octave Lapize (1887), Guillaume Dubois (1656), Édith Scob (1937), Fernando Ocáriz Braña (1944), Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), and Jean Guitton (1901).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Vernier ranks 65. Before him are Jean Dieudonné (1906), Paul Lévy (1886), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Alain Connes (1947), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), and Paul Émile Appell (1855). After him are Philippe de La Hire (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Albert Girard (1595), Henri Brocard (1845), and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786).

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