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Sylvestre François Lacroix

1765 - 1843

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Sylvestre François Lacroix (28 April 1765 – 24 May 1843) was a French mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvestre François Lacroix has received more than 41,003 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sylvestre François Lacroix is the 548th most popular mathematician (up from 551st in 2019), the 3,486th most popular biography from France (down from 3,264th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 548 out of 823Before him are Dmitri Egorov, John Cairncross, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, August Leopold Crelle, Martin Kutta, and Richard Montague. After him are Giovanni Battista Zupi, Jai Singh II, Solomon Lefschetz, Ian Stewart, Johann Baptist Cysat, and Michael Freedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 28Before him are Eli Whitney, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Daniel Steibelt, James Smithson, and Petrobey Mavromichalis. After him are Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Antonio Nariño, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, James Ivory, and Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Among people deceased in 1843, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 23Before him are Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, John Trumbull, and Francis Scott Key. After him are Domingo Caycedo, John Biscoe, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Kazim Rashti, Hirata Atsutane, and Johann Natterer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 3,486 out of 6,011Before him are Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Louis Réard (1897), Hubertine Auclert (1848), Tignous (1957), Claude Bourgelat (1712), and Maurice de Guérin (1810). After him are Robert Marchand (1911), Michel Delpech (1946), Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914), Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Charles Rigoulot (1903), and Anne Dacier (1645).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 83Before him are Jacques Herbrand (1908), Louis Bachelier (1870), Jacques Ozanam (1640), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842). After him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678).