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MATHEMATICIAN

Adolf Hurwitz

1859 - 1919

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Adolf Hurwitz (German: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈhʊʁvɪts]; 26 March 1859 – 18 November 1919) was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Hurwitz has received more than 118,852 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Adolf Hurwitz is the 278th most popular mathematician (down from 276th in 2019), the 1,864th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,778th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 278 out of 823. Before him are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Emil Artin, Liu Xin, Shiing-Shen Chern, Eugenio Beltrami, and John Wilkins. After him are Richard S. Hamilton, Guillaume Postel, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Vergilius of Salzburg, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, and John Graunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 45. Before him are Natalie of Serbia, Jānis Čakste, Diana Abgar, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Alfred Hettner, and Feng Guozhang. After him are Thibaw Min, Léon Duguit, Karl von Stürgkh, Georg Alexander Pick, Sergei Lyapunov, and Charles Diehl. Among people deceased in 1919, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 55. Before him are Henry J. Heinz, Evelyn De Morgan, Feng Guozhang, Franz von Liszt, Hermann Weingärtner, and Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia. After him are Friedrich Naumann, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Raymonde de Laroche, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, and Daniel Peter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 1,864 out of 6,142. Before him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864), Elvira Madigan (1867), Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg (1623), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902). After him are Philip, Elector Palatine (1448), Klaus Fischer (1949), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Uziel Gal (1923), and Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 31. Before him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Thomas Abbt (1738), Eduard Heine (1821), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823). After him are Julius Plücker (1801), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Edmund Landau (1877), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821).

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