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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 39,294 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Diederik Korteweg is the 599th most popular mathematician (up from 830th in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 849th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Diederik Korteweg ranks 599 out of 1,004. Before him are Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, David Ruelle, Haskell Curry, Arend Heyting, and Wilhelm Jordan. After him are Louis J. Mordell, Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, Michael Freedman, Harish-Chandra, and Pietro Mengoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Diederik Korteweg ranks 83. Before him are Eugène Simon, Kurd Lasswitz, Elia Millosevich, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Sándor Wekerle, and Francis Davis Millet. After him are Ioan Slavici, Enrico Forlanini, Otto von Emmich, Surendranath Banerjee, Alexander Kazbegi, and Hubert Parry. Among people deceased in 1941, Diederik Korteweg ranks 134. Before him are Marcel Prévost, Milka Ternina, Dimitrios Golemis, Otto Strandman, Pavel Filonov, and Fritz Manteuffel. After him are Louis Brandeis, Hamilton Harty, Yakov Smushkevich, Georgette Leblanc, Jin Shuren, and Franciszek Kleeberg.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Diederik Korteweg ranks 615 out of 1,646. Before him are Willeke Alberti (1945), Johannes Burman (1707), Willem Johan Kolff (1911), Johannes Meursius (1579), Arend Heyting (1898), and Willem Roelofs (1822). After him are Victor Marijnen (1917), Ibrahim Afellay (1986), Henk Groot (1938), Suzanne Manet (1829), Ard Schenk (1944), and Maggie MacNeal (1950).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Diederik Korteweg ranks 12. Before him are Gemma Frisius (1508), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), and Arend Heyting (1898). After him are Jacobus Golius (1596), Gustav de Vries (1866), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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