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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 103,974 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Carl David Tolmé Runge is the 269th most popular mathematician (up from 297th in 2019), the 1,797th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,031st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 269 out of 1,004. Before him are Emil Artin, John Horton Conway, Jesse Douglas, Tatyana Afanasyeva, John Wilkins, and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov. After him are Atle Selberg, Karen Uhlenbeck, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Shing-Tung Yau, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Paul Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 42. Before him are Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Sarrail, Émile Picard, Pedro Lascuráin, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and Mahmud Shevket Pasha. After him are Matthias Zurbriggen, Maurycy Gottlieb, Enrico Ferri, Christian Sinding, Sergei Winogradsky, and Ahad Ha'am. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 39. Before him are Sisowath of Cambodia, James Oliver Curwood, Shote Galica, Sergey Sazonov, Boris Kustodiev, and Jānis Čakste. After him are Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Jovan Cvijić, Hugo Schuchardt, Victorine Meurent, Stanisław Przybyszewski, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 1,797 out of 7,253. Before him are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Horst Schumann (1906), Oskar Gröning (1921), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), and Adolph Diesterweg (1790). After him are Christian Lorenz (1966), Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649), Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771), Ernst Nolte (1923), Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), and Friedrich Naumann (1860).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 33. Before him are Maria Reiche (1903), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Adolf Hurwitz (1859). After him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), and Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765).

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