MATHEMATICIAN

Constantin Carathéodory

1873 - 1950

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Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, romanized: Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantin Carathéodory has received more than 333,953 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantin Carathéodory is the 210th most popular mathematician (down from 201st in 2019), the 1,288th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,281st in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Mathematician.

Constantin Carathéodory is most famous for the theorem that states that a function is continuous if and only if it is bounded.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 210 out of 1,004. Before him are Tullio Levi-Civita, Paolo Ruffini, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Michael Atiyah, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, and Victor D'Hondt. After him are Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Autolycus of Pitane, Willem de Sitter, and Kazimierz Kuratowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 40. Before him are Lee de Forest, Alexander Bogdanov, Radoje Domanović, Tullio Levi-Civita, Robert Wiene, and Hayim Nahman Bialik. After him are Jakob Wassermann, Eliel Saarinen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Hugo Simberg, Ma Barker, and Thorvald Stauning. Among people deceased in 1950, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 38. Before him are Emmanuel Mounier, Dinu Lipatti, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Milada Horáková, Werner Haase, and Francesco Cilea. After him are Eliel Saarinen, John Rabe, Henry L. Stimson, Emil Abderhalden, Melitta Bentz, and Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 1,288 out of 7,253. Before him are Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Erwin Piscator (1893), Theobald Boehm (1794), Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), Paul Langerhans (1847), and John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589). After him are Jens Lehmann (1969), Hannah Höch (1889), Willi Herold (1925), Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach (1724), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), and Princess Anna of Prussia (1836).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 25. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Andrew Wiles (1953), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849). After him are Thomas Abbt (1738), Maria Reiche (1903), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), and Andreas Osiander (1498).

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