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Eduard Heine

1821 - 1881

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Heinrich Eduard Heine (16 March 1821 – 21 October 1881) was a German mathematician. Heine became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legendre functions (Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Heine has received more than 68,718 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Eduard Heine is the 239th most popular mathematician (up from 285th in 2019), the 1,558th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,849th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Heine ranks 239 out of 823. Before him are Édouard Roche, Al-Khazini, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Émile Picard, Robert Recorde, and Michel Chasles. After him are Joseph Petzval, Alfred Korzybski, Leo Perutz, Ibn al-Shatir, George Atwood, and Farkas Bolyai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Eduard Heine ranks 27. Before him are Wilhelm Tempel, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Giovanni Bottesini, Sebastian Kneipp, Anita Garibaldi, and Ernst Engel. After him are Henry Thomas Buckle, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Bartolomé Mitre, Franz Doppler, Vasile Alecsandri, and Tuone Udaina. Among people deceased in 1881, Eduard Heine ranks 24. Before him are Theobald Boehm, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Ludwig von Benedek. After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Hermann Lotze, Marie Laveau, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, and Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 1,558 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752), Herbert Kappler (1907), Georg Stumme (1886), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), and George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484). After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), Dettmar Cramer (1925), Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1896), and Eduard Spranger (1882).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 27. Before him are Ernst Zermelo (1871), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Maria Reiche (1903), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), and Thomas Abbt (1738). After him are Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Julius Plücker (1801), and Nicholas Mercator (1620).

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