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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 44,109 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvestre François Lacroix is the 685th most popular mathematician (down from 546th in 2019), the 4,176th most popular biography from France (down from 3,472nd in 2019) and the 94th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 685 out of 1,004. Before him are Alfréd Rényi, Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, and David Gale. After him are Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Edmond Laguerre, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Roy Kerr, and Viktor Sadovnichiy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 33. Before him are Petrobey Mavromichalis, Daniel Steibelt, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Antonio Nariño, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and James Smithson. After him are Jakub Jan Ryba, James Ivory, and Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Among people deceased in 1843, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 27. Before him are John Trumbull, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Francis Scott Key, Kazim Rashti, John Biscoe, and Hirata Atsutane. After him are Johann Natterer, Friedrich von Adelung, John Armstrong Jr., Washington Allston, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, and Josep Bonaplata i Corriol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 4,176 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Paray (1886), Pierre Adet (1763), Jean Cavaillès (1903), Maurice Boitel (1919), Roger Ducret (1888), and Yvonne Loriod (1924). After him are Jean, Count of Paris (1965), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), Abel de Pujol (1785), François Bracci (1951), Louis Garrel (1983), and Ernest Goüin (1815).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Sylvestre François Lacroix ranks 94. Before him are Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), and Serge Lang (1927). After him are Edmond Laguerre (1834), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), and Victor Puiseux (1820).

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