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 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Adolf Hurwitz is the 261st most popular mathematician (up from 278th in 2019), the 1,740th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,862nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Mathematician.

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  • 57.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Adolf Hurwitz has had the most page views in the with 15,081 views, followed by German (4,354), and Russian (3,951). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (86.73%), Haitian (73.10%), and Southern Azerbaijani (59.15%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 261 out of 1,004. Before him are Alfred Korzybski, Michael Stifel, Hugo Steinhaus, Guo Shoujing, Andreas Osiander, and Hans Hahn. After him are Thomas Simpson, Emil Artin, John Horton Conway, Jesse Douglas, Tatyana Afanasyeva, and John Wilkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 39. Before him are Fusajiro Yamauchi, Diana Abgar, Natalie of Serbia, Alexandru Averescu, Peter Altenberg, and Takeda Sōkaku. After him are Jānis Čakste, Ravachol, Thibaw Min, Feng Guozhang, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Léon Duguit. Among people deceased in 1919, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 49. Before him are Mikhail Tsvet, Vasily Chapayev, Gustav Landauer, Peter Altenberg, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, and Leo Jogiches. After him are Mark Sykes, Henry J. Heinz, Friedrich Naumann, Hermann Weingärtner, Hugo Haase, and Feng Guozhang.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 1,740 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Börne (1786), Margaret Sambiria (1230), Andreas Osiander (1498), Marco Reus (1989), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755). After him are Christian Oliver (1972), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), Klaus Fischer (1949), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Adolf Hurwitz ranks 32. Before him are Thomas Abbt (1738), Maria Reiche (1903), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), and Andreas Osiander (1498). After him are Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), and August Leopold Crelle (1780).

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