MATHEMATICIAN

Adam Ries

1492 - 1559

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Adam Ries (17 January 1492 – 30 March 1559) was a German mathematician. He is also known by the name Adam Riese. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Ries has received more than 92,367 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Adam Ries is the 477th most popular mathematician (down from 462nd in 2019), the 3,153rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,045th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Adam Ries by language

Over the past year Adam Ries has had the most page views in the with 87,452 views, followed by English (10,500), and Russian (1,652). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (92.41%), Franco-Provençal (69.84%), and Haitian (60.19%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adam Ries ranks 477 out of 1,004Before him are Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, James Stirling, Alfred J. Lotka, Dennis Sullivan, Al-Mahani, and Federico Commandino. After him are Johann Samuel König, Lazarus Fuchs, George David Birkhoff, Karl Mollweide, Ion Ghica, and W. V. D. Hodge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1492, Adam Ries ranks 12Before him are Andrea Alciato, Elizabeth Tudor, John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Sabina of Bavaria, Saadet I Giray, and Jean du Bellay. After him is Martín de Azpilcueta. Among people deceased in 1559, Adam Ries ranks 19Before him are Michele Sanmicheli, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, Wen Zhengming, Fatma Sultan, Realdo Colombo, and Christina Gyllenstierna. After him are Kanō Motonobu, Lorenzo Priuli, and Gelawdewos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Ries ranks 3,153 out of 7,253Before him are Johannes Aventinus (1477), Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria (1784), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Theodor Oberländer (1905), and Rolf Carls (1885). After him are Hugo Eckener (1868), Karl Lehmann (1936), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Philipp von Boeselager (1917), and Hans Erich Nossack (1901).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Adam Ries ranks 56Before him are Henryk Zygalski (1908), Helmut Hasse (1898), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), Ernst Schröder (1841), and Hermann Hankel (1839). After him are Johann Samuel König (1712), Karl Mollweide (1774), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), Gerd Faltings (1954), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935).