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MATHEMATICIAN

Diederik Korteweg

1848 - 1941

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Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diederik Korteweg has received more than 35,941 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Diederik Korteweg is the 833rd most popular mathematician, the 851st most popular biography from Netherlands and the 12th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Diederik Korteweg ranks 833 out of 823Before him are Salomon Bochner, Avi Wigderson, George Mostow, Elon Lindenstrauss, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, and Robert Daniel Carmichael. After him are Richard Borcherds, Martin Davis, Poul Heegaard, Caucher Birkar, Demetrios Christodoulou, and Edward Charles Titchmarsh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Diederik Korteweg ranks 109Before him are Amos Burn, Helen Allingham, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Gunnar Knudsen, Bernard Bosanquet, and Lewis Howard Latimer. After him is W. G. Grace. Among people deceased in 1941, Diederik Korteweg ranks 174Before him are Frederick Moloney, Hamilton Harty, Victor Schertzinger, Frank Waller, Kalle Jalkanen, and Noël Liétaer. After him are Bob Crompton, Banjo Paterson, Franz Bartl, Blind Boy Fuller, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, and James Stephenson.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Diederik Korteweg ranks 851 out of 1,427Before him are Jeroen Dijsselbloem (1966), Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946), Jan Pijnenburg (1906), Frans Thijssen (1952), John Metgod (1958), and Mounir El Hamdaoui (1984). After him are Mbark Boussoufa (1984), Ricardo Moniz (1964), Thérèse Steinmetz (1933), Bertha Brouwer (1930), Jos Luhukay (1963), and Rita Verdonk (1955).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Diederik Korteweg ranks 12Before him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), and Arend Heyting (1898). After him are Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).