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Émilie du Châtelet

1706 - 1749

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French pronunciation: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica containing basic laws of physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émilie du Châtelet has received more than 1,355,264 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Émilie du Châtelet is the 91st most popular mathematician (down from 70th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from France (down from 448th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 91 out of 823. Before her are Bonaventura Cavalieri, Paul Erdős, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Alexander Friedmann, Anthemius of Tralles, and Guillaume de l'Hôpital. After her are Stefan Banach, Leopold Kronecker, Joan Clarke, Siméon Denis Poisson, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and Christian Goldbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 2. Before her is Benjamin Franklin. After her are Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, John Dollond, John Baskerville, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, and John Belchier. Among people deceased in 1749, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 1. After her are Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, William Jones, Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Matthias Bel, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and Mkhitar Sebastatsi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 625 out of 6,011. Before her are Paul Claudel (1868), Hugh the Great (898), Léonin (1135), Yolande de Polastron (1749), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Juliette Gréco (1927). After her are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Camille Flammarion (1842), Catherine of Valois (1401), François Mansart (1598), Jacques Maritain (1882), and Maurice Béjart (1927).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 19. Before her are Abraham de Moivre (1667), Marin Mersenne (1588), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661). After her are Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), Charles Hermite (1822), and Émile Borel (1871).

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