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Siméon Denis Poisson

1781 - 1840

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Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (, US also ; French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siméon Denis Poisson has received more than 680,745 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Siméon Denis Poisson is the 93rd most popular mathematician (up from 95th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from France (up from 641st in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 93 out of 1,004. Before her are Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and G. H. Hardy. After her are Leopold Kronecker, Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and Isaac Barrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 7. Before her are Eugène de Beauharnais, George Stephenson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and René Laennec. After her are Stamford Raffles, Adelbert von Chamisso, William I of Württemberg, Anton Diabelli, Achim von Arnim, and Frederica of Baden. Among people deceased in 1840, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 7. Before her are Niccolò Paganini, Caspar David Friedrich, Frederick William III of Prussia, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Lucien Bonaparte, and Emperor Kōkaku. After her are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jacques MacDonald, Louis de Bonald, and Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom.

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In France

Among people born in France, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 630 out of 6,770. Before her are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Guy Debord (1931), Marie of Anjou (1404), Paul Claudel (1868), Louis Renault (1877), and Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372). After her are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Léon Walras (1834), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), Gaston Leroux (1868), Paul Doumer (1857), and Albert Fert (1938).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Siméon Denis Poisson ranks 19. Before her are Gaspard Monge (1746), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752). After her are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), and Alexis Clairaut (1713).

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