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Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier

1750 - 1840

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Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (or L'Huillier) (24 April 1750 in Geneva – 28 March 1840 in Geneva) was a Swiss mathematician of French Huguenot descent. He is known for his work in mathematical analysis and topology, and in particular the generalization of Euler's formula for planar graphs. He won the mathematics section prize of the Berlin Academy of Sciences for 1784 in response to a question on the foundations of the calculus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier has received more than 29,754 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier is the 507th most popular mathematician (down from 410th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier ranks 507 out of 1,004. Before her are Geminus, Anders Johan Lexell, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Gerd Faltings, Louis Bachelier, and Charles Julien Brianchon. After her are Hillel Furstenberg, Johann Baptist Cysat, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, Kushyar Gilani, and Hermann Bondi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier ranks 30. Before her are Bathilde d'Orléans, Túpac Katari, Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, Yazid of Morocco, Hugo Kołłątaj, and Sylvain Maréchal. After her are Anton Stamitz, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Ignacy Potocki. Among people deceased in 1840, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier ranks 32. Before her are Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Marcellin Champagnat, John Cockerill, Karl Otfried Müller, Johann Michael Vogl, and Frances Burney. After her are Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Carl Blechen, Sidney Smith, Franz Meyen, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and Anthony Carlisle.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier ranks 334 out of 1,015. Before her are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), Marc Surer (1951), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Arnold Henry Guyot (1807), and Silvio Moser (1941). After her are Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Felix Manz (1498), Johann Bauhin (1541), Georges Cottier (1922), and Hector Hodler (1887).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier ranks 12. Before her are Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710). After her are Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jakob Hermann (1678), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Georges de Rham (1903), and Armand Borel (1923).

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