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Bernt Michael Holmboe

1795 - 1850

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Bernt Michael Holmboe (23 March 1795 – 28 March 1850) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was home-tutored from an early age, and was not enrolled in school until 1810. Following a short period at the Royal Frederick University, which included a stint as assistant to Christopher Hansteen, Holmboe was hired as a mathematics teacher at the Christiania Cathedral School in 1818, where he met the future renowned mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernt Michael Holmboe has received more than 29,384 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bernt Michael Holmboe is the 681st most popular mathematician (down from 656th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Norway (down from 268th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 681 out of 1,004. Before him are John Cairncross, E. T. Whittaker, Henry Dudeney, Vladimir Drinfeld, Alfréd Rényi, and Georges de Rham. After him are Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, David Gale, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Edmond Laguerre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 48. Before him are Thomas Arnold, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Heinrich Rose, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Joseph Böhm, and Rowland Hill. After him are Nikolaos Mantzaros, Benjamin Morrell, Pedro María de Anaya, George Peabody, José Gregorio Monagas, and José Miguel de Velasco Franco. Among people deceased in 1850, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 53. Before him are Jean Broc, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, and Garlieb Merkel. After him are Adoniram Judson, Valentín Canalizo, Giuseppe Giusti, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, William Kirby, and Karl Schorn.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 273 out of 1,039. Before him are Kristen Nygaard (1926), Adolph Tidemand (1814), Vicky Vette (1965), Magne Furuholmen (1962), Grete Waitz (1953), and Alf Andersen (1906). After him are Sigurd Haakonsson (895), Ståle Solbakken (1968), Erlend Loe (1969), Arne Bendiksen (1926), Håkon Brusveen (1927), and Jens Bjørneboe (1920).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 9. Before him are Atle Selberg (1917), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), Caspar Wessel (1745), Viggo Brun (1885), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), and Thoralf Skolem (1887). After him are Axel Thue (1863), Carl Størmer (1874), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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