MATHEMATICIAN

Felix Bernstein

1878 - 1956

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Felix Bernstein (24 February 1878 – 3 December 1956), was a German mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory,: 5–6  and less well known for demonstrating in 1924 the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Bernstein has received more than 13,308 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Felix Bernstein is the 376th most popular mathematician (down from 337th in 2019), the 2,495th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,306th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Felix Bernstein ranks 376 out of 1,004Before him are Diocles, Caspar Wessel, Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, Edward Kasner, and Philipp Frank. After him are Hypsicles, Sam Loyd, Viggo Brun, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Rudolf E. Kálmán, and William Sealy Gosset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Felix Bernstein ranks 82Before him are Maxie Long, Grigory Petrovsky, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Louis Camille Maillard, Zabel Yesayan, and Edward Kasner. After him are Luís of Orléans-Braganza, Jorge Ubico, Tullio Serafin, Aino Kallas, Ulrich Graf, and Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1956, Felix Bernstein ranks 80Before him are Ernst Robert Curtius, Johann Radon, Guido Cantelli, Mikheil Gelovani, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, and George Sarton. After him are Aino Kallas, Auguste Chevalier, Alexander Gretchaninov, Meghnad Saha, Ernest King, and Charles Joughin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Bernstein ranks 2,495 out of 7,253Before him are Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Anton Reichenow (1847), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Hans Riegel (1923), Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (1852), and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761). After him are Hans von Kulmbach (1476), Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899), Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (1536), Christine of Saxony (1505), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), and Edith Hamilton (1867).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Felix Bernstein ranks 43Before him are Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Julius Plücker (1801), and Lothar Collatz (1910). After him are Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), and Thomas Fincke (1561).