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Édouard Roche

1820 - 1883

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Édouard Albert Roche (French: [edwaʁ albɛʁ ʁɔʃ]; 17 October 1820 – 27 April 1883) was a French astronomer and mathematician, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. His name was given to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit, and Roche lobe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Roche has received more than 48,563 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Roche is the 233rd most popular mathematician (down from 226th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from France (down from 1,585th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Édouard Roche ranks 233 out of 823. Before him are L. E. J. Brouwer, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Anatoly Fomenko, Henri Cartan, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, and Giovanni Ceva. After him are Al-Khazini, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Émile Picard, Robert Recorde, Michel Chasles, and Eduard Heine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Édouard Roche ranks 26. Before him are John Tyndall, Mathilde Bonaparte, John Tenniel, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Yaqub Beg, and Edmond Becquerel. After him are Afanasy Fet, Şevkefza Kadın, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Jeanne Duval, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Fromentin. Among people deceased in 1883, Édouard Roche ranks 20. Before him are Dayananda Saraswati, Thomas Mayne Reid, Prince Charles of Prussia, Pierre Auguste Cot, Friedrich von Flotow, and Alexander Gorchakov. After him are Ranavalona II, Tự Đức, Sojourner Truth, Pertevniyal Sultan, Franz Doppler, and Arnold Toynbee.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Roche ranks 1,660 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), Jean Rouch (1917), Jean Chardin (1643), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Raymond Domenech (1952), and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811). After him are Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213), Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Claude Gensac (1927), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), and Maria of Montpellier (1182).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Édouard Roche ranks 47. Before him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Édouard Lucas (1842), Élie Cartan (1869), Gilles de Roberval (1602), and Henri Cartan (1904). After him are Émile Picard (1856), Michel Chasles (1793), Pierre Varignon (1654), Antoine Gombaud (1607), René-Louis Baire (1874), and Joseph Bertrand (1822).

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