MATHEMATICIAN

Urbain Le Verrier

1811 - 1877

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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urbain Le Verrier has received more than 361,532 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Urbain Le Verrier is the 64th most popular mathematician (up from 73rd in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from France (up from 498th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Mathematician.

Urbain le verrier was a french mathematician who is most famous for his prediction of the position of the planet neptune.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Urbain Le Verrier ranks 64 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Battani, Émilie du Châtelet, August Ferdinand Möbius, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Hermann Minkowski, and Bhāskara II. After him are Simon Stevin, Friedrich Bessel, Abraham de Moivre, Ludolph van Ceulen, Giuseppe Peano, and Richard Dedekind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Urbain Le Verrier ranks 7. Before him are Napoleon II, Franz Liszt, Évariste Galois, Théophile Gautier, Robert Bunsen, and Maximilian II of Bavaria. After him are Isaac Singer, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vissarion Belinsky, and Louis Blanc. Among people deceased in 1877, Urbain Le Verrier ranks 6. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Crazy Horse, Brigham Young, Saigō Takamori, and Adolphe Thiers. After him are Henry Fox Talbot, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Sophie of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Urbain Le Verrier ranks 436 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), André Le Nôtre (1613), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Jean Monnet (1888), and Henri Moissan (1852). After him are Robert Campin (1375), Robert Delaunay (1885), Isabella of France (1295), Albert Lebrun (1871), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Urbain Le Verrier ranks 15. Before him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Gaspard Monge (1746), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706). After him are Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698).

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