MATHEMATICIAN

Enrico Betti

1823 - 1892

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Enrico Betti Glaoui (21 October 1823 – 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early expositions of Galois theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enrico Betti has received more than 65,203 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Enrico Betti is the 401st most popular mathematician (up from 452nd in 2019), the 2,417th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,571st in 2019) and the 36th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Enrico Betti ranks 401 out of 1,004Before him are Campanus of Novara, Lars Hörmander, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Richard Hamming, Benedetto Castelli, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant. After him are Richard S. Hamilton, Hans Freudenthal, Bhāskara I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Fraenkel, and Guido Fubini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Enrico Betti ranks 37Before him are Katsu Kaishū, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, and Marietta Alboni. After him are Sanford Robinson Gifford, Karl Schenk, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Alfred Stevens, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Sophie Adlersparre. Among people deceased in 1892, Enrico Betti ranks 39Before him are Afanasy Fet, Jules Perrot, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Charles Lavigerie, Carlo Cafiero, and Hermann Burmeister. After him are Bernhard Windscheid, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Jan Czerski, Alexander Cartwright, Abdyl Frashëri, and Prince Francis, Count of Trapani.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enrico Betti ranks 2,417 out of 5,161Before him are Guido Crepax (1933), Philistus (-430), Peppino di Capri (1939), Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme (1872), Benedetto Castelli (1578), and Pietro Riario (1447). After him are Massimo d'Azeglio (1798), Agostino Depretis (1813), Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Pietro Lando (1462), Emma of Italy (null), and Paolo Di Canio (1968).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Enrico Betti ranks 36Before him are Ernesto Cesàro (1859), Ostilio Ricci (1540), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Campanus of Novara (1210), and Benedetto Castelli (1578). After him are Guido Fubini (1879), Luigi Cremona (1830), Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555), Francesco Maurolico (1494), Daniele Barbaro (1513), and Federico Commandino (1509).