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Auguste Kerckhoffs

1835 - 1903

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Auguste Kerckhoffs (19 January 1835 – 9 August 1903) was a Dutch linguist and cryptographer in the late 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Kerckhoffs has received more than 85,336 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Kerckhoffs is the 454th most popular mathematician (down from 428th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 399th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Auguste Kerckhoffs ranks 454 out of 823Before him are Henryk Zygalski, Johan Jensen, Ion Ghica, Francesco Maurolico, Lothar Collatz, and Enrico Betti. After him are John Hadley, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Thomas Bradwardine, Geminus, Pierre Fatou, and Roger Cotes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Auguste Kerckhoffs ranks 42Before him are Tomás Estrada Palma, John Hughlings Jackson, Émile Combes, Alexandrine Tinné, Raffi, and Lunalilo. After him are Theodore Thomas, Alexander Potebnja, Krišjānis Barons, Raphael Kalinowski, Matthías Jochumsson, and Felix Draeseke. Among people deceased in 1903, Auguste Kerckhoffs ranks 44Before him are Luigi Cremona, Alexander Bain, Adrien Proust, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Charles Renouvier, and Augusta Holmès. After him are Kusumoto Ine, Ozaki Kōyō, Karl Gegenbaur, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Harriet Lane, and Tang Jingsong.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Auguste Kerckhoffs ranks 459 out of 1,427Before him are Jan Luyken (1649), Sjoukje Dijkstra (1942), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923), Floor Jansen (1981), and Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934). After him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), Virgil van Dijk (1991), Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Pierre van Hooijdonk (1969), and Ernesto Hoost (1965).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Auguste Kerckhoffs ranks 8Before him are Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), and Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918). After him are Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).