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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 73,054 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Emil Julius Gumbel is the 582nd most popular mathematician (up from 618th in 2019), the 3,623rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,520th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 582 out of 823. Before him are Ilia Vekua, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Yuri Manin, Luigi Bianchi, Rózsa Péter, and Ronald Graham. After him are Charles Julien Brianchon, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Otto E. Neugebauer, Ludwig Schlesinger, and Aleksey Krylov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 165. Before him are Edmund Goulding, Sam Jaffe, George Marshall, Dmitry Furmanov, Charles Journet, and Vladimir Albitsky. After him are Alexander Volkov, Françoise Rosay, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Mae Busch, Alfred Sturtevant, and Julius Saaristo. Among people deceased in 1966, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 123. Before him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Alice Pearce, Hedda Hopper, Arthur Waley, Christian Herter, and Jan Brzechwa. After him are John Taylor, Dirk Brouwer, Robert Charpentier, Mississippi John Hurt, Eva Justin, and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 3,623 out of 6,142. Before him are Alfred Pfaff (1926), Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), Marc Forster (1969), Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Karoline von Günderrode (1780). After him are Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Theile (1646), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), and Theodor Fischer (1862).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Emil Julius Gumbel ranks 69. Before him are Gerd Faltings (1954), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Max Noether (1921), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Max August Zorn (1906), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935). After him are Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Grete Hermann (1901), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798).

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