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Yves Meyer

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Yves F. Meyer (French: [mɛjɛʁ]; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yves Meyer has received more than 148,167 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yves Meyer is the 450th most popular mathematician (up from 478th in 2019), the 3,083rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,157th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Mathematician.

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  • 53.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yves Meyer ranks 450 out of 1,004. Before him are Christian Kramp, Whitfield Diffie, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, and Oscar Zariski. After him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Francesco Maurolico, Yang Hui, William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, and Edmund Gunter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Yves Meyer ranks 210. Before him are Brigitte Fontaine, Paul Gleason, James Fox, Ole Ellefsæter, Carmen Salinas, and Samantha Eggar. After him are Vladimir Durković, Jorge Toro, Néstor Combin, Leonid Kanevsky, Germaine Greer, and Arik Einstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yves Meyer ranks 3,083 out of 6,770. Before him are Sabine Azéma (1949), Léon Daudet (1867), Gabriel Attal (1989), Simon Marmion (1425), Jean Richepin (1849), and Maurice Emmanuel (1862). After him are Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jean-François Revel (1924), and Pierre Bézier (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Yves Meyer ranks 72. Before him are Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Paul Lévy (1886), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Ozanam (1640), and Christian Kramp (1760). After him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Jean Leray (1906), René de Saussure (1868), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816).

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