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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 310,785 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantin Carathéodory is the 201st most popular mathematician (down from 188th in 2019), the 1,281st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,159th in 2019) and the 24th 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 201 out of 823. Before him are Jan Łukasiewicz, Richard von Mises, Laurent Schwartz, Édouard Lucas, Georg von Peuerbach, and Abu Nasr Mansur. After him are Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, Alonzo Church, Paolo Ruffini, Autolycus of Pitane, and Theodorus of Cyrene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 34. Before him are Kyösti Kallio, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alice Guy-Blaché, Ivanoe Bonomi, Alexander Bogdanov, and Ma Barker. After him are Lee de Forest, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Charles Péguy, Ray Ewry, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Melitta Bentz. Among people deceased in 1950, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 40. Before him are Milada Horáková, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Werner Haase, Jan Smuts, Grigory Kulik, and Mao Anying. After him are Francesco Cilea, Melitta Bentz, Liane de Pougy, Emil Abderhalden, Eliel Saarinen, and Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 1,281 out of 6,142. Before him are George, Duke of Saxony (1471), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), and Anselm Feuerbach (1829). After him are Beno Gutenberg (1889), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen (1257), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Christian Wulff (1959), and Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Constantin Carathéodory ranks 24. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Robert Aumann (1930), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), and Maria Reiche (1903). After him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Thomas Abbt (1738), Eduard Heine (1821), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823).

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