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Emil Julius Gumbel

1891 - 1966

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Emil Julius Gumbel (18 July 1891, in Munich – 10 September 1966, in New York City) was a German mathematician and political writer. Gumbel specialised in mathematical statistics and, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher, was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, which has practical applications in many fields, including engineering and finance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Julius Gumbel has received more than 78,131 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Emil Julius Gumbel is the 576th most popular mathematician (up from 580th in 2019), the 3,758th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,614th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 576 out of 1,004. Before him are Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Dénes Kőnig, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Paul Halmos, and Erhard Schmidt. After him are Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Endre Szemerédi, Nilakantha Somayaji, Al-Nayrizi, and Julius Weisbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 154. Before him are Zora Neale Hurston, W. Averell Harriman, Charley Patton, Victoria Kent, Franz Kaiser, and Adolf Busch. After him are Galaktion Tabidze, Erich Marcks, Fréhel, Sam Jaffe, Grunya Sukhareva, and Federico Moreno Torroba. Among people deceased in 1966, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 126. Before him are Courtney Hodges, Jan Kiepura, Jan Brzechwa, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Pierre Montet, and Erich Pommer. After him are Petar Radaković, Eva Justin, Alfred Berger, Erwin Komenda, Agostinho Fortes Filho, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 3,758 out of 7,253. Before him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Basilius Besler (1561), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Caroline of Hesse-Homburg (1771), Robert Kovač (1974), and Thomas Berthold (1964). After him are Matilda of France (943), Fritz Darges (1913), Ruth Fischer (1895), Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852), Peter Thiel (1967), and Erich Marcks (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 71. Before him are Max Noether (1921), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Max August Zorn (1906), Max Dehn (1878), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), and Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843). After him are Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Grete Hermann (1901), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854).

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