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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

1903 - 1996

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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Dutch: [vɑn dər ˈʋaːrdə(n)]; 2 February 1903 – 12 January 1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden has received more than 120,440 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bartel Leendert van der Waerden is the 325th most popular mathematician (up from 376th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 374th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Over the past year Bartel Leendert van der Waerden has had the most page views in the with 14,229 views, followed by Russian (5,480), and German (3,776). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Piedmontese (60.26%), Hungarian (55.78%), and Spanish (49.65%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 325 out of 1,004. Before him are Abraham Wald, Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Stephen Smale. After him are Maurice René Fréchet, Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, and Guidobaldo del Monte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 103. Before him are Georges Politzer, Alice Herz-Sommer, Cornell Woolrich, Victor Brauner, Misao Tamai, and Gregor Piatigorsky. After him are Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Michail Stasinopoulos, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Nikolay Krylov, Nikolai Voznesensky, and Alexander Imich. Among people deceased in 1996, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 87. Before him are Zeki Müren, Karl Frenzel, Christopher Robin Milne, Saul Bass, Dondinho, and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. After him are Amos Tversky, Ben Johnson, Lew Ayres, David Packard, Lo Wei, and Infanta María Cristina of Spain.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 328 out of 1,646. Before him are Aad de Mos (1947), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Karel Dujardin (1622), Emanuel de Witte (1617), and Franciscus Donders (1818). After him are Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633), Charles II, Duke of Guelders (1467), Nikolaus Gerhaert (1420), Esaias van de Velde (1587), and Joanna of Bavaria (1356).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 5. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), and Isaac Beeckman (1588). After him are Gemma Frisius (1508), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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