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Erich Kähler

1906 - 2000

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Erich Kähler (German: [ˈkɛːlɐ] ; 16 January 1906 – 31 May 2000) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Kähler has received more than 53,495 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Erich Kähler is the 743rd most popular mathematician (up from 749th in 2019), the 4,599th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,367th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Erich Kähler ranks 743 out of 1,004. Before him are Szolem Mandelbrojt, Douglas Hartree, Daniel Quillen, Sergey Mergelyan, François d'Aguilon, and Suzan Kahramaner. After him are Wu Wenjun, Jordanus de Nemore, Ludwig Schlesinger, Charles Fefferman, Alexander Ostrowski, and Leo Königsberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Erich Kähler ranks 286. Before him are Carl Benjamin Boyer, Jānis Ivanovs, Buddy Adler, Galo Plaza, Arthur Rudolph, and Lon Chaney Jr.. After him are Willy Hansen, Willy Jäggi, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Arturo Torres Carrasco, Branislav Sekulić, and Cai Chusheng. Among people deceased in 2000, Erich Kähler ranks 216. Before him are Steve Allen, Karen Hoff, Yokozuna, Johann Urbanek, Ernest Lluch, and Théodore Monod. After him are Hélène Prévost, Vicente Asensi, Viktor Kolotov, Laila Kinnunen, Kirsty MacColl, and Vincentas Sladkevičius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Kähler ranks 4,599 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Josef Jung (1949), Juliane Köhler (1965), Eike Immel (1960), Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909), Gottfried Kirch (1639), and Elfriede Kaun (1914). After him are Klaus Groth (1819), Lothar Metz (1939), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Jürgen Pommerenke (1953), and E. Marlitt (1825).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Erich Kähler ranks 86. Before him are Johann Schreck (1576), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Wilhelm Killing (1847), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), and Leonard Nelson (1882). After him are Jordanus de Nemore (null), Johann Faulhaber (1580), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oskar Perron (1880), Wolfgang Krull (1899), and Richard Rado (1906).

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