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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

1923 - Today

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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (French: [ivɔn ʃɔkɛ bʁy.a] ; born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of general relativity, by showing that the Einstein field equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat has received more than 107,468 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is the 588th most popular mathematician (up from 756th in 2019), the 3,787th most popular biography from France (up from 4,320th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 588 out of 1,004Before her are Julius Weisbach, Ulisse Dini, Harald Cramér, Mikio Sato, Shigefumi Mori, and Dmitri Egorov. After her are Harold Jeffreys, Boris Delaunay, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Edward Routh, Lipót Fejér, and G. I. Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 244Before her are Mikhail Yegorov, Brendan Behan, Karl Vaino, Gordon R. Dickson, François Cavanna, and Netti Witziers-Timmer. After her are Giuseppe Rotunno, Morris Halle, Ioannis Grivas, Eugene Sledge, Joseph Colombo, and Primo Nebiolo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 3,787 out of 6,770Before her are Erich Buschenhagen (1895), Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), Henri Deloge (1874), Charles Despiau (1874), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), and Camille Mandrillon (1891). After her are Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), André Gill (1840), Jean Richard (1921), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis de Freycinet (1779), and Daniel Bensaïd (1946).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 86Before her are Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Henri Brocard (1845), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842). After her are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), and Pierre-Louis Lions (1956).