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René-Louis Baire

1874 - 1932

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René-Louis Baire (French: [bɛʁ]; 21 January 1874 – 5 July 1932) was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René-Louis Baire has received more than 57,089 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. René-Louis Baire is the 330th most popular mathematician (down from 267th in 2019), the 2,341st most popular biography from France (down from 1,925th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, René-Louis Baire ranks 330 out of 1,004. Before him are Stephen Smale, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Maurice René Fréchet, Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Enrico Bombieri. After him are Guidobaldo del Monte, Sergei Sobolev, Guillaume Postel, Pietro Cataldi, Nicholas Mercator, and Sergei Novikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, René-Louis Baire ranks 74. Before him are Max Dvořák, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Huang Xing, Paul Wegener, Lewis Hine, and Princess Anna of Montenegro. After him are Serge Koussevitzky, István Bethlen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lina Cavalieri, Laura Montoya, and Clemens von Pirquet. Among people deceased in 1932, René-Louis Baire ranks 47. Before him are Ovide Decroly, Reginald Fessenden, Ramon Casas, Ivar Kreuger, John Philip Sousa, and José Félix Uriburu. After him are Kenneth Grahame, Ignaz Seipel, Louis Anquetin, Harriet Backer, King C. Gillette, and Patrick Geddes.

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In France

Among people born in France, René-Louis Baire ranks 2,341 out of 6,770. Before him are Maïwenn (1976), Pierre Leroux (1797), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), and Bayezid Osman (1924). After him are Émile Boutroux (1845), Henri Labrouste (1801), Patricia Kaas (1966), Gabriel Hanot (1889), Michel Gondry (1963), and Jacques Villon (1875).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, René-Louis Baire ranks 56. Before him are Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), and Alain Connes (1947). After him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), and Albert Girard (1595).

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