MATHEMATICIAN

Roger Apéry

1916 - 1994

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Roger Apéry (French: [apeʁi]; 14 November 1916, Rouen – 18 December 1994, Caen) was a French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, which states that ζ(3) is an irrational number. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Apéry has received more than 70,676 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Roger Apéry is the 860th most popular mathematician (down from 793rd in 2019), the 4,895th most popular biography from France (down from 4,488th in 2019) and the 108th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Roger Apéry ranks 860 out of 1,004. Before him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Juliusz Schauder, Yuri Linnik, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Taylor, and Hans Rademacher. After him are Michael Aschbacher, Richard Brauer, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, William Shanks, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, and Francesco Severi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Roger Apéry ranks 256. Before him are Margaret Lockwood, Guy Lapébie, I. J. Good, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Yvon Petra, and Giuseppe Tosi. After him are Dennis Poore, Kurt Pettersén, Lennart Klingström, Betty Taylor, Gene Mako, and Gyula Prassler. Among people deceased in 1994, Roger Apéry ranks 298. Before him are Agostino Di Bartolomei, Dack Rambo, Alfredo Pérez, Erwin Strittmatter, Louis Gabrillargues, and Yuli Raizman. After him are Aleksandr Chakovsky, Julian Symons, Ellsworth Vines, Aurora Mardiganian, Ernst Lörtscher, and Lennart Klingström.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Apéry ranks 4,895 out of 6,770. Before him are Dominique Bathenay (1954), Pierre Bosquet (1810), Zabou Breitman (1959), Florian Thauvin (1993), Pierre Adam (1924), and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808). After him are Raphaël Poirée (1974), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Hubert Curien (1924), Marcel Pinel (1908), Jacques Cariou (1870), and Franck Sauzée (1965).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Roger Apéry ranks 108. Before him are Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), Cédric Villani (1973), Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Claire Voisin (1962), and Paul Montel (1876). After him are Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922), Henri Padé (1863), James Lighthill (1924), Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835), and Hugo Duminil-Copin (1985).

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