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page 1French number theorists

Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician and lawyer
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)

Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician (1752–1833)

Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963)

Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician

Étienne Bézout
French mathematician (1730-1783)

Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician

Joseph Bertrand
French mathematician (1822-1900)
Édouard Lucas
French mathematician (1842–1891)
Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac
French mathematician (1581-1638)
Claude Chevalley
French mathematician (1909-1984)
Jacques de Billy
French mathematician (1602-1679)
Roger Apéry
Greek-French mathematician
Pierre Hérigone
French astronomer
Bernard Frénicle de Bessy
early-modern French mathematician

Joseph Oesterlé
French mathematician
Catherine Goldstein
French mathematician and historian of mathematics
Gérald Tenenbaum
mathematician
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
French mathematician
Sophie Morel
French mathematician
Henri Cohen
French mathematician
Philippe Flajolet
French computer scientist (1948–2011)
André Néron
French mathematician (1922–1985)
Philippe Michel
French mathematician
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger
French mathematician (1954-2019)
Élisabeth Lutz
French mathematician (1914-2008)
Michel Waldschmidt
French mathematician
Olivier Ramaré
French mathematician
Étienne Fouvry
French mathematician
Guy Terjanian
French mathematician