Category
page 118th-century French mathematicians
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862)
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician (1752–1833)
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
French noble and mathematician (*1661 – †1704)
Alexis Clairaut
French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
French mathematician and astronomer
Pierre Bouguer
French astronomer and mathematician (1698-1758)
Charles Marie de La Condamine
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (1701-1774)
Étienne Bézout
French mathematician (1730-1783)
Jean-Charles de Borda
French scientist, political advisor and sailor (1733-1799)
Michel Rolle
French mathematician
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
French astronomer (1723-1788)
Pierre Varignon
French mathematician
Philippe de La Hire
French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)
Jean-Étienne Montucla
French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
French mathematician
Gaspard de Prony
French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics (1755-1839)
Charles Dupin
French mathematician, engineer, economist and politician (1784-1873)
Jacques Ozanam
French mathematician (1640-1718)
Joseph Diez Gergonne
French mathematician
Charles Bossut
French mathematician (1730–1814)
Sylvestre François Lacroix
French mathematician (1765-1843)
Christian Kramp
French mathematician
Pierre Raymond de Montmort
French mathematician (1678-1719)
Marc-Antoine Parseval
French mathematician
Joseph Sauveur
French mathematician and founder of the science of acoustics (1653–1716)
Charles Étienne Louis Camus
French mathematician
Pierre-Simon Girard
French mathematician and engineer
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
French engineer (*1698 – †1761)
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
French mathematician
Louis François Antoine Arbogast
French mathematician
Jean Baptiste Meusnier
French mathematician (1754-1793)
François Jacquier
French Franciscan mathematician and physicist
Bernard Lamy
French mathematician and theologian
Guillaume Le Blond
French mathematician and military historian
Jacques d'Allonville
astronomer (1671-1732)
Guy Tachard
French Jesuit missionary and mathematician
Yves Marie André
French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, best known for his Essai sur le Beau, a 1741 philosophical work on aesthetics
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
French mathematician
Jean-Pierre Christin
French astronomer
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
French mathematician
Antoine Parent
French mathematician (1666–1716)
Simon de la Loubère
French diplomat
Théodore Cornut
French mathematician
Alexandre Savérien
French mathematician
Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon
French mathematician
Antoine Deparcieux
French mathematician
Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour
mathematician
Nicolas de Malézieu
French mathematician