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40 famous people found
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André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603 -
Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Emilie DU CHATELET
French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment
1706 - 1749 -
Gabriel LAMÉ
French mathematician
1795 - 1870 -
Charles DUPIN
French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician
1794 - 1873 -
Louis POINSOT
French mathematician and physicist
1777 - 1859 -
Joseph FOURIER
French mathematician and physicist
1768 - 1830 -
Achille Pierre DIONIS DU SÉJOUR
French astronomer and mathematician
1734 - 1794 -
Denis POISSON
French mathematician, geometer, and physicist
1781 - 1840 -
Henri NAVIER
French engineer and physicist
1785 - 1836 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Gaspard MONGE
French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry
1746 - 1818 -
Charles BOSSUT
French mathematician
1730 - 1814 -
Augustin-Louis CAUCHY
French mathematician
1789 - 1857 -
Jean-Charles de BORDA
French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
1733 - 1799 -
Honoré FABRI
French Jesuit theologian
1607 - 1688 -
Pierre-Simon DE LAPLACE
French scholar and polymath
1749 - 1827