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Étienne Bézout

1730 - 1783

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Étienne Bézout (French: [bezu]; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon (near Fontainebleau), France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Bézout has received more than 85,005 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Étienne Bézout is the 129th most popular mathematician (up from 160th in 2019), the 988th most popular biography from France (up from 1,183rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Mathematician.

Étienne Bézout was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work in the fields of differential equations and number theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Étienne Bézout ranks 129 out of 1,004Before him are Zu Chongzhi, Hermann Weyl, Herbert A. Hauptman, Marian Rejewski, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Liu Hui. After him are Colin Maclaurin, Hermann of Reichenau, Lodovico Ferrari, Jacques Hadamard, Aloysius Lilius, and Sophus Lie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Étienne Bézout ranks 4Before him are Alexander Suvorov, Charles Messier, and Johann Georg Hamann. After him are Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, and Velu Nachiyar. Among people deceased in 1783, Étienne Bézout ranks 3Before him are Leonhard Euler, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. After him are Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Benedict Joseph Labre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Bézout ranks 988 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Henri Giraud (1879), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Philippe Ariès (1914), and Germaine of Foix (1488). After him are Augustin Robespierre (1763), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Laurent Blanc (1965), Henrietta Maria of France (1609), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), and Charles Nodier (1780).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Étienne Bézout ranks 26Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), and Alexis Clairaut (1713). After him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), and André Weil (1906).