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Edmund Landau

1877 - 1938

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Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Landau has received more than 258,006 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edmund Landau is the 249th most popular mathematician (up from 313th in 2019), the 1,675th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,136th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Edmund Landau has had the most page views in the with 29,481 views, followed by German (6,922), and Russian (6,141). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (168.66%), Vietnamese (158.28%), and Simple English (158.14%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edmund Landau ranks 249 out of 1,004. Before him are John Charles Fields, Joseph Bertrand, Ibn al-Shatir, Simon Newcomb, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, and Émile Picard. After him are Jabir ibn Aflah, Jacopo Riccati, Édouard Roche, Abraham Zacuto, Jean-Robert Argand, and Alfred Korzybski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Edmund Landau ranks 45. Before him are Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ulrich Salchow, Vasil Kolarov, Otto Gross, Sadao Araki, and Raymond Roussel. After him are Petar Kočić, Charles Rolls, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Isabelle Eberhardt, Herbert Pitman, and Garrett Morgan. Among people deceased in 1938, Edmund Landau ranks 62. Before him are Leo Frobenius, Ödön von Horváth, Alexandru Averescu, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Axel Paulsen, and Ludwig Borchardt. After him are Nicola Romeo, William McDougall, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Cao Kun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Jukums Vācietis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edmund Landau ranks 1,675 out of 7,253. Before him are Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Gustav Landauer (1870), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), Michael Fassbender (1977), and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721). After him are Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Otto Sander (1941), August Sander (1876), Hemma (800), and Hans Langsdorff (1894).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Edmund Landau ranks 29. Before him are Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Thomas Abbt (1738), Maria Reiche (1903), and Eduard Heine (1821). After him are Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), and Michael Maestlin (1550).

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