Who was there ?


Mathematicians in our archive who were alive in the year 1760 are:

Giulio Fagnano was 78 this year and would die in a further 6 years.
Giovanni Poleni was 77 this year and would die the following year.
Robert Simson was 73 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Christian Goldbach was 70 this year and would die in a further 4 years.
James Stirling was 68 this year and would die in a further 10 years.
Charles-Étienne Camus was 61 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Daniel Bernoulli was 60 this year and would die in a further 22 years.
William Braikenridge was 60 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Edmund Stone was about 60 this year and would die in about a further 8 years.
Charles-Marie La Condamine was 59 this year and would die in a further 14 years.
Thomas Bayes was 58 this year and would die the following year.
Antoine Deparcieux was 57 this year and would die in a further 8 years.
Johann Castillon was 56 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Alexis Fontaine was 56 this year and would die in a further 11 years.
Johann Segner was 56 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Benjamin Franklin was 54 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Vincenzo Riccati was 53 this year and would die in a further 15 years.
Leonhard Euler was 53 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Georges Buffon was 53 this year and would die in a further 28 years.
Johann(II) Bernoulli was 50 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Thomas Simpson was 50 this year and would die the following year.
Thomas Fuller was 50 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich was 49 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
Alexis Clairaut was 47 this year and would die in a further 5 years.
Alexander Wilson was 46 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
César-François Cassini de Thury was 46 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Giovanni Fagnano was 45 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Matthew Stewart was 43 this year and would die in a further 25 years.
Jean d'Alembert was 43 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Maria Agnesi was 42 this year and would die in a further 39 years.
István Hatvani was 42 this year and would die in a further 26 years.
John Landen was 41 this year and would die in a further 30 years.
Abraham Kästner was 41 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Tobias Mayer was 37 this year and would die in a further 2 years.
Richard Price was 37 this year and would die in a further 31 years.
Franz Aepinus was 36 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Étienne Montucla was 35 this year and would die in a further 39 years.
James Hutton was 34 this year and would die in a further 37 years.
Paolo Frisi was 32 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Johann Heinrich Lambert was 32 this year and would die in a further 17 years.
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was 31 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Étienne Bézout was 30 this year and would die in a further 23 years.
Charles Bossut was 30 this year and would die in a further 54 years.
Francis Maseres was 29 this year and would die in a further 64 years.
Gianfrancesco Malfatti was 29 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
Benjamin Banneker was 29 this year and would die in a further 46 years.
Naonobu Ajima was 28 this year and would die in a further 38 years.
Nevil Maskelyne was 28 this year and would die in a further 51 years.
Jérôme Lalande was 28 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
David Rittenhouse was 28 this year and would die in a further 36 years.
Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten was 28 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
Jean-Charles de Borda was 27 this year and would die in a further 39 years.
Achille-Pierre Dionis du Séjour was 26 this year and would die in a further 34 years.
Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde was 25 this year and would die in a further 36 years.
Jesse Ramsden was 25 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
Edward Waring was 24 this year and would die in a further 38 years.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange was 24 this year and would die in a further 53 years.
Charles Augustin Coulomb was 24 this year and would die in a further 46 years.
Erland Bring was 24 this year and would die in a further 38 years.
Johannes Tetens was 24 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
Charles Hutton was 23 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Georg Klügel was 21 this year and would die in a further 52 years.
Anders Lexell was 20 this year and would die in a further 24 years.
Carl Friedrich Hindenburg was 19 this year and would die in a further 48 years.
John Wilson was 19 this year and would die in a further 33 years.
Marquis de Condorcet was 17 this year and would die in a further 34 years.
Johann(III) Bernoulli was 16 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
Anastácio da Cunha was 16 this year and would die in a further 27 years.
Pierre Méchain was 16 this year and would die in a further 44 years.
Caspar Wessel was 15 this year and would die in a further 58 years.
George Atwood was 15 this year and would die in a further 47 years.
Gaspard Monge was 14 this year and would die in a further 58 years.
William Trail was 14 this year and would die in a further 71 years.
Aida Yasuaki was 13 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
John Playfair was 12 this year and would die in a further 59 years.
Charles Tinseau was 12 this year and would die in a further 62 years.
Dominique Cassini was 12 this year and would die in a further 85 years.
Pierre-Simon Laplace was 11 this year and would die in a further 67 years.
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre was 11 this year and would die in a further 62 years.
Caroline Herschel was 10 this year and would die in a further 88 years.
Simon Lhuilier was 10 this year and would die in a further 80 years.
Lorenzo Mascheroni was 10 this year and would die in a further 40 years.
James Glenie was 10 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
Adrien-Marie Legendre was 8 this year and would die in a further 73 years.
Lazare Carnot was 7 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Edward Troughton was 7 this year and would die in a further 75 years.
Dugald Stewart was 7 this year and would die in a further 63 years.
Georg Vega was 6 this year and would die in a further 42 years.
Nikolai Fuss was 5 this year and would die in a further 66 years.
Antoine Parseval was 5 this year and would die in a further 76 years.
Gaspard de Prony was 5 this year and would die in a further 79 years.
John West was 4 this year and would die in a further 57 years.
Louis Arbogast was 1 this year and would die in a further 43 years.
Jacob(II) Bernoulli was 1 this year and would die in a further 29 years.
Christian Kramp was born this year and would die in a further 66 years.

There were 95 mathematicians in our archive alive in the year 1760.


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