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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 121,764 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bartel Leendert van der Waerden is the 376th most popular mathematician (down from 357th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 348th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 376 out of 823Before him are Yang Hui, Gemma Frisius, Raymond Smullyan, Zhu Shijie, László Lovász, and Otto Hesse. After him are Igor Shafarevich, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Ivan Vinogradov, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Yutaka Taniyama, and Christian Kramp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 131Before him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Candido Portinari, Nikolay Cherkasov, Rensis Likert, Misao Tamai, and Uichiro Hatta. After him are Diana Vreeland, Grigori Aleksandrov, Boris Blacher, Takiji Kobayashi, Guillermo Subiabre, and Abba P. Lerner. Among people deceased in 1996, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 109Before him are Cao Yu, Jerry Siegel, Edison Denisov, Károly Grósz, Muhammad al-Badr, and Yulii Khariton. After him are Jo Van Fleet, Antonín Mrkos, Margaux Hemingway, Shams Pahlavi, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Annabella.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 375 out of 1,427Before him are Dirk V, Count of Holland (1053), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Gemma Frisius (1508), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Memphis Depay (1994), and Adriaen van der Werff (1659). After him are Floris II, Count of Holland (1091), Faas Wilkes (1923), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Anna van Egmont (1533), and Frans Brüggen (1934).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden ranks 6Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), and Gemma Frisius (1508). After him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).