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Carl Ludwig Siegel

1896 - 1981

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Carl Ludwig Siegel (31 December 1896 – 4 April 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He has been named one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.André Weil, without hesitation, named Siegel as the greatest mathematician of the first half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Ludwig Siegel has received more than 128,123 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Carl Ludwig Siegel is the 411th most popular mathematician (down from 360th in 2019), the 2,764th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,508th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Mathematician.

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Over the past year Carl Ludwig Siegel has had the most page views in the with 12,442 views, followed by German (4,010), and Japanese (2,616). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (259.32%), Slovenian (94.72%), and Southern Azerbaijani (61.34%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 411 out of 1,004. Before him are Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Mary Cartwright, and Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi. After him are Thomas Fincke, László Lovász, Abraham Robinson, Henryk Zygalski, Georgy Voronoy, and Albert W. Tucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 118. Before him are Eduardo Lonardi, Léonide Massine, Erich Hückel, Fritz Heider, Anandamayi Ma, and Richard Heidrich. After him are Józef Czapski, Máté Zalka, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Heimito von Doderer, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, and Raymond Massey. Among people deceased in 1981, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 93. Before him are Edith Head, Rensis Likert, Edvard Kocbek, Mohammad Beheshti, Paul Anspach, and Victor Kugler. After him are Eraldo Monzeglio, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Mostafa Chamran, Claude Auchinleck, Jim Davis, and Zdeněk Burian.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 2,764 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Herwegh (1817), Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), Max Pauly (1907), Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1887), Karl Koch (1809), and Justinus Kerner (1786). After him are Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Thomas Fincke (1561), Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), and Tom Tykwer (1965).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 48. Before him are Lothar Collatz (1910), Felix Bernstein (1878), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Hans Freudenthal (1905), and Abraham Fraenkel (1891). After him are Thomas Fincke (1561), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Helmut Hasse (1898), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), and Ernst Schröder (1841).

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