MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Friedmann

1888 - 1925

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Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (also spelled Friedman or Fridman; ; Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фри́дман; June 16 [O.S. June 4] 1888 – September 16, 1925) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Friedmann has received more than 460,050 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Alexander Friedmann is the 86th most popular mathematician (up from 88th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Russia (up from 176th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Alexandr Friedmann is most famous for his idea of an expanding universe.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexander Friedmann ranks 86 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacob Bernoulli, Regiomontanus, Pappus of Alexandria, Stefan Banach, Felix Klein, and Ctesibius. After him are Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and G. H. Hardy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Alexander Friedmann ranks 22. Before him are Raymond Chandler, John Logie Baird, Roland Garros, C. V. Raman, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Frits Zernike. After him are Eugene O'Neill, Richard E. Byrd, Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, T. S. Eliot, and Gerrit Rietveld. Among people deceased in 1925, Alexander Friedmann ranks 13. Before him are William Jennings Bryan, Georgy Lvov, Sergei Yesenin, Henri Fayol, Josef Breuer, and Felix Klein. After him are Mikhail Frunze, Camille Flammarion, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Władysław Reymont, Léon Bourgeois, and Vajiravudh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Friedmann ranks 160 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Boris Berezovsky (1946), and Mikhail Glinka (1804). After him are Felix Steiner (1896), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Stenka Razin (1630), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), and El Lissitzky (1890).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alexander Friedmann ranks 6. Before him are David Hilbert (1862), Georg Cantor (1845), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903). After him are Grigori Perelman (1966), Christian Goldbach (1690), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909).

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