Trending Mathematicians in France this year
The 100 most-viewed mathematicians this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leo XIV.
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50,859
Total Views (this year)
1
Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)
5,124
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2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
2,458
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3
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
2,312
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4
François Le Lionnais
French mathematician (1901–1984)
1,474
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views
5
Frank Merle
French mathematician
1,314
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views
6
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
1,233
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views
7
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
1,159
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views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
1,146
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views
9
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
1,025
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views
10
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
1,013
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views
11
George Washington
founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
986
views
views
12
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
970
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views
13
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
902
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views
14
Manuel Bompard
French politician (born 1986)
882
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views
15
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
848
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views
16
Satoshi Nakamoto
pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin
783
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views
17
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
747
views
views
18
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
737
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views
19
Cédric Villani
French mathematician and politician
712
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
678
views
views
21
Professor Moriarty
fictional character from Sherlock Holmes
672
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views
22
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
668
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views
23
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
574
views
views
24
Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
555
views
views
25
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
537
views
views
26
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
527
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views
27
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
516
views
views
28
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician (1928–2014)
507
views
views
29
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
490
views
views
30
Sylvia Serfaty
French mathematician & academic
476
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views
31
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
462
views
views
32
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
445
views
views
33
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
414
views
views
34
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
405
views
views
35
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
402
views
views
36
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
382
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37
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
380
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38
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
363
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views
39
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
354
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views
40
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
354
views
views
41
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
354
views
views
42
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
341
views
views
43
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
341
views
views
44
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
338
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views
45
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
336
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views
46
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
335
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views
47
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
333
views
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
328
views
views
49
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
327
views
views
50
Aurélie Jean
French digital scientist and entrepreneur
326
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views
51
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
319
views
views
52
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
301
views
views
53
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
294
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views
54
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
294
views
views
55
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
289
views
views
56
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
289
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views
57
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
281
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views
58
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
280
views
views
59
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
276
views
views
60
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
274
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views
61
Évariste Galois
French mathematician (1811-1832)
271
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views
62
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
270
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views
63
Kurt Gödel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
268
views
views
64
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
265
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views
65
Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
263
views
views
66
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
261
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views
67
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)
260
views
views
68
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
253
views
views
69
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
250
views
views
70
Raymond Queneau
French novelist and poet (1903–1976)
247
views
views
71
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
244
views
views
72
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
243
views
views
73
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
243
views
views
74
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
237
views
views
75
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
234
views
views
76
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
229
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views
77
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
224
views
views
78
Maurice Audin
French mathematician and political activist (1932–1957)
217
views
views
79
Euclid
ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
214
views
views
80
Frances Northcutt
NASA Trajectory Engineer Houston
210
views
views
81
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitaria
205
views
views
82
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
203
views
views
83
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
201
views
views
84
Michel Broué
French mathematician
200
views
views
85
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
199
views
views
86
Hervé Le Tellier
French writer and linguist
198
views
views
87
Josée Massi
197
views
views
88
Paul-Adrien d'Hardemare
French catholic cleric, video blogger
193
views
views
89
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
190
views
views
90
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
189
views
views
91
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
187
views
views
92
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
185
views
views
93
Nicușor Dan
President of Romania since 2025
184
views
views
94
Adam Back
British cryptographer
179
views
views
95
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
176
views
views
96
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
173
views
views
97
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
164
views
views
98
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Mary Jackson
American mathematician and aerospace engineer
164
views
views
99
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
164
views
views
100
Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)
163
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