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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 73,582 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Eduard Heine is the 236th most popular mathematician (up from 239th in 2019), the 1,521st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,558th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Heine ranks 236 out of 1,004. Before him are Élie Cartan, Piet Hein, Joseph Petzval, Seymour Papert, Gilles de Roberval, and Nikolay Bogolyubov. After him are Isaac Beeckman, Farkas Bolyai, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Seki Takakazu, and Robert Recorde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Eduard Heine ranks 26. Before him are Wilhelm Tempel, Heinrich Barth, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sebastian Kneipp, Giovanni Bottesini, and Bartolomé Mitre. After him are Henry Thomas Buckle, Leon Pinsker, Ernst Engel, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Tuone Udaina, and Rachel Félix. Among people deceased in 1881, Eduard Heine ranks 22. Before him are Nikolai Rubinstein, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte. After him are Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Ludwig von Benedek, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Sophia Perovskaya, and Maria Domenica Mazzarello.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 1,521 out of 7,253. Before him are Conrad Veidt (1893), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1724), and Gertrude of Merania (1185). After him are Duke Pius August in Bavaria (1786), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Paul Rée (1849), Ruth Fuchs (1946), and Reinhart Koselleck (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Eduard Heine ranks 28. Before him are Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Thomas Abbt (1738), and Maria Reiche (1903). After him are Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800).

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