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Christoph Gudermann

1798 - 1852

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Christoph Gudermann (25 March 1798 – 25 September 1852) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence, and for being the teacher of Karl Weierstrass, who was greatly influenced by Gudermann's course on elliptic functions in 1839–1840, the first such course to be taught in any institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christoph Gudermann has received more than 70,139 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Christoph Gudermann is the 813th most popular mathematician (up from 848th in 2019), the 4,962nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,879th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Christoph Gudermann ranks 813 out of 1,004. Before him are Marina Ratner, Maryna Viazovska, Carl Hindenburg, Yasumasa Kanada, Hans Lewy, and Vladimir Voevodsky. After him are Mary Everest Boole, Cornelius Lanczos, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Armand Borel, James Waddell Alexander II, and Boris Galerkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Christoph Gudermann ranks 55. Before him are Abigail Fillmore, Andrea Maffei, Ditlev Blunck, Gustav Rose, Melchior von Diepenbrock, and Jacques Jasmin. After him are José Hilario López, Thomas Henderson, Jacques Bernard Hombron, John Adams Dix, George Don, and William Edmond Logan. Among people deceased in 1852, Christoph Gudermann ranks 61. Before him are Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Álvares de Azevedo, František Čelakovský, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, and Francisco Javier Echeverría. After him are Jacques Bernard Hombron, Horatio Greenough, Frances Wright, Walter Forward, Andrew Jackson Downing, and John George Children.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christoph Gudermann ranks 4,962 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Hindenburg (1741), Gustav Lindau (1866), Martin Wuttke (1962), Nathan Zach (1930), Willibald Kreß (1906), and Niclas Füllkrug (1993). After him are Carl Raddatz (1912), Ernst Benda (1925), Walther Schreiber (1884), Walter Janssen (1887), Gustav Schäfer (1906), and Stefan Kießling (1984).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Christoph Gudermann ranks 94. Before him are Johann Faulhaber (1580), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oskar Perron (1880), Wolfgang Krull (1899), Richard Rado (1906), and Carl Hindenburg (1741). After him are Heinz Prüfer (1896), Friedrich Engel (1861), Walther von Dyck (1856), Don Zagier (1951), Hans Rademacher (1892), and Richard Brauer (1901).

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