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Édouard Lucas

1842 - 1891

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François Édouard Anatole Lucas (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa edwaʁ anatɔl lykɑ]; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Lucas has received more than 146,452 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Édouard Lucas is the 198th most popular mathematician (up from 205th in 2019), the 1,442nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,458th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Édouard Lucas ranks 198 out of 823. Before him are Callippus, Marcel Grossmann, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Jan Łukasiewicz, Richard von Mises, and Laurent Schwartz. After him are Georg von Peuerbach, Abu Nasr Mansur, Constantin Carathéodory, Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, and Alonzo Church.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Édouard Lucas ranks 29. Before him are Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Osborne Reynolds, Giovanni Giolitti, Okita Sōji, and Giovanni Boldini. After him are Johannes Zukertort, Vilhelm Thomsen, Ōyama Iwao, Catherine Eddowes, Mykola Lysenko, and Alphonse Borrelly. Among people deceased in 1891, Édouard Lucas ranks 29. Before him are Jan Neruda, Charles I of Württemberg, Franz Miklosich, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Ernest Meissonier. After him are Theophil Hansen, Edmond Becquerel, Johan Jongkind, Kalākaua, Joseph Petzval, and Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Lucas ranks 1,442 out of 6,011. Before him are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709), Louis I, Count of Flanders (1304), Victorien Sardou (1831), Jean Clouet (1480), Roger Etchegaray (1922), and Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840). After him are Henri Dutilleux (1916), William Farel (1489), François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (1818), Dominique Sanda (1948), Arletty (1898), and Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Édouard Lucas ranks 43. Before him are Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Camille Jordan (1838), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), and Laurent Schwartz (1915). After him are Élie Cartan (1869), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Henri Cartan (1904), Édouard Roche (1820), Émile Picard (1856), and Michel Chasles (1793).

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