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Carl David Tolmé Runge

1856 - 1927

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Carl David Tolmé Runge (German: [ˈʁʊŋə]; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: [ˈʀʊŋə ˈkʊta]), in the field of what is today known as numerical analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl David Tolmé Runge has received more than 99,542 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl David Tolmé Runge is the 297th most popular mathematician (down from 268th in 2019), the 2,033rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,725th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 297 out of 823Before him are Jacopo Riccati, Alan Baker, Julius Plücker, Johannes Widmann, Rudolf Lipschitz, and Nicholas Mercator. After him are Vitello, Aristyllus, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Pierre Deligne, Rudolf E. Kálmán, and Theon of Smyrna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 45Before him are Ahad Ha'am, Enrico Ferri, Naftali Herz Imber, Stepa Stepanović, Maurycy Gottlieb, and Maurice Sarrail. After him are Christian Sinding, Sergei Winogradsky, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Hermann von François, and Matthias Zurbriggen. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 46Before him are Ahad Ha'am, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jovan Cvijić, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Inayat Khan. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Lizzie Borden, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Victorine Meurent, and Ion I. C. Brătianu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 2,033 out of 6,142Before him are Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1763), Nicholas Mercator (1620), and Albert Leo Schlageter (1894). After him are Andreas Köpke (1962), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (1529), Wilhelm Marr (1819), and Hieronymus Bock (1498).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 34Before him are Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Julius Plücker (1801), and Nicholas Mercator (1620). After him are Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Edmund Landau (1877), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Thomas Fincke (1561).