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Carl Neumann

1832 - 1925

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Carl Gottfried Neumann (also Karl; 7 May 1832 – 27 March 1925) was a German mathematical physicist and professor at several German universities. His work focused on applications of potential theory to physics and mathematics. He contributed to the mathematical formalization of electrodynamics and analytical mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Neumann has received more than 114,668 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Neumann is the 521st most popular mathematician (up from 631st in 2019), the 1,238th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,479th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Neumann ranks 521 out of 1,004. Before him are 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Solomon Lefschetz, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Jai Singh II, and Guðbrandur Þorláksson. After him are Julia Robinson, Martin Ohm, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Eugenio Calabi, Dai Zhen, and Thomas Wright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Carl Neumann ranks 55. Before him are Lucien Quélet, Theodor Gomperz, Arthur Hughes, Charilaos Trikoupis, Jules Vallès, and Mary Ann Cotton. After him are Edwin Arnold, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Colin Archer, and Pavel Chistyakov. Among people deceased in 1925, Carl Neumann ranks 91. Before him are Bajram Curri, Roger de La Fresnaye, André Caplet, Magnus Enckell, Leo Fall, and Fanny Bullock Workman. After him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Giovanni Battista Grassi, J. M. E. McTaggart, Alfred Perot, and Ephraim Moses Lilien.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Carl Neumann ranks 1,238 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennady Padalka (1958), Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), and Pavel Chichagov (1767). After him are Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Valentin Gaft (1935), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), and Vladimir Petlyakov (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Carl Neumann ranks 33. Before him are Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Nikolai Luzin (1883), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), and Solomon Lefschetz (1884). After him are Nina Bari (1901), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Boris Delaunay (1890), Aleksey Krylov (1863), and Alexander Gelfond (1906).

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