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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

1651 - 1708

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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus or Tschirnhauß (German: [ˈeːʁənfʁiːt ˈvaltɐ fɔn ˈtʃɪʁnhaʊs]; 10 April 1651 – 11 October 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus has received more than 97,863 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is the 176th most popular mathematician (up from 194th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Poland (up from 255th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is most famous for his work on the theory of electricity. He was the first to realize that electricity was a form of energy, and he was the first to use the word "electricity" in its modern sense.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 176 out of 1,004. Before him are Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, and Jean-Pierre Serre. After him are Édouard Lucas, Conon of Samos, Ernst Zermelo, Leo Perutz, Rafael Bombelli, and Ibn Yunus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 6. Before him are Margaret Theresa of Spain, François Fénelon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, William Dampier, and Natalya Naryshkina. After him are Engelbert Kaempfer, Madame d'Aulnoy, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, and Dimitry of Rostov. Among people deceased in 1708, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 7. Before him are Guru Gobind Singh, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Prince George of Denmark, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, and Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons. After him are Seki Takakazu, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 238 out of 1,694. Before him are Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793). After him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Arnold Zweig (1887), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Adolf Engler (1844), and Martin Agricola (1486).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 8. Before him are Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), and Felix Hausdorff (1868). After him are Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Vitello (1230).

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