Find out more about the greatest 18th Century French Mathematicians, including Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph Fourier, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Marquis de Condorcet and Émilie du Châtelet.
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749
Scientist
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768
Mathematician & Physicist
Sophie Germain01 April 1776
Mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789
Mathematician
Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743
Mathematician, Philosopher
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon07 September 1707
Naturalist
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752
Mathematician
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736
Mathematician and Astronomer
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775
Physicist and Mathematician
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, Politician,
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot01 June 1796
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
François Arago26 February 1786
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667
Mathematician, Statistician
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Jacques Charles12 November 1746
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Jean Sylvain Bailly15 September 1736
Astronomer, Politician, Mathematician
Pierre Louis Maupertuis17 July 1698
astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, physicist
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797
Physician, Physicist, Mathematician
Alexis Clairaut
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Pierre Bouguer
Michel Rolle
Jean-Robert Argand
Jean-Charles de Borda
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Joseph Sauveur
Gaspard de Prony
Émilie du Châtelet