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MATHEMATICIAN

Bernhard Riemann

1826 - 1866

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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈʁiːman] ; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rigorous formulation of the integral, the Riemann integral, and his work on Fourier series. His contributions to complex analysis include most notably the introduction of Riemann surfaces, breaking new ground in a natural, geometric treatment of complex analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernhard Riemann has received more than 1,580,970 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Bernhard Riemann is the 12th most popular mathematician (up from 13th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Germany (up from 47th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Mathematician.

Bernhard Riemann is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, including the Riemann integral, the Riemann-Roch theorem, and the Riemann hypothesis.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bernhard Riemann ranks 12 out of 823. Before him are Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, and Al-Biruni. After him are Pierre de Fermat, Fibonacci, John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Bernhard Riemann ranks 1. After him are Carlo Collodi, Eugénie de Montijo, Gustave Moreau, Charles XV of Sweden, Ludwig Minkus, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Zénobe Gramme, and Frederic Edwin Church. Among people deceased in 1866, Bernhard Riemann ranks 1. After him are George Everest, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Miguel I of Portugal, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Chief Seattle, William Whewell, Tokugawa Iemochi, Hermann Goldschmidt, Thomas Hodgkin, Adolph Diesterweg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernhard Riemann ranks 45 out of 6,142. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Josef Mengele (1911), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Adolf Eichmann (1906), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809). After him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Hannah Arendt (1906), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Georg Ohm (1789), Thomas Mann (1875), and Karl Benz (1844).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Bernhard Riemann ranks 3. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928).

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