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Charles Proteus Steinmetz

1865 - 1923

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to design better electromagnetic apparatus equipment, especially electric motors for use in industry.At the time of his death, Steinmetz held over 200 patents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Proteus Steinmetz has received more than 598,446 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles Proteus Steinmetz is the 337th most popular mathematician (up from 500th in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from Poland (up from 679th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Over the past year Charles Proteus Steinmetz has had the most page views in the with 60,767 views, followed by Spanish (19,758), and Italian (4,189). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Marathi (413.64%), Spanish (134.46%), and Malagasy (94.66%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Charles Proteus Steinmetz ranks 337 out of 1,004. Before him are Guidobaldo del Monte, Sergei Sobolev, Guillaume Postel, Pietro Cataldi, Nicholas Mercator, and Sergei Novikov. After him are Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, Gemma Frisius, and Johann Radon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Charles Proteus Steinmetz ranks 67. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Friedrich Paschen, Hantaro Nagaoka, Said Halim Pasha, Rafael Merry del Val, and Aspazija. After him are Prince Kan'in Kotohito, John Stanley Plaskett, Isaac Israëls, Henri Desgrange, J. Walter Christie, and Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1923, Charles Proteus Steinmetz ranks 52. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly, Alexandre Ribot, Charles de Freycinet, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Damat Ferid Pasha. After him are Katō Tomosaburō, Sayed Darwish, Hermes da Fonseca, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Alfred Edwards, and Andrés Avelino Cáceres.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Charles Proteus Steinmetz ranks 484 out of 1,694. Before him are Sholem Asch (1880), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Helene Deutsch (1884), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Kurt Goldstein (1878), and Symon Budny (1530). After him are Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Józef Haller (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), and Henryk Kasperczak (1946).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Charles Proteus Steinmetz ranks 16. Before him are Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), and Theodor Kaluza (1885). After him are Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), Richard Courant (1888), Abraham Robinson (1918), Michael O. Rabin (1931), and Martin Kutta (1867).

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