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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

1849 - 1917

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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (26 October 1849 – 3 August 1917) was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions (nowadays known as Padé approximants), and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius has received more than 195,062 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ferdinand Georg Frobenius is the 208th most popular mathematician (up from 222nd in 2019), the 1,254th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,414th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 208 out of 1,004. Before him are Richard von Mises, Paul Guldin, Tullio Levi-Civita, Paolo Ruffini, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, and Michael Atiyah. After him are Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, and Autolycus of Pitane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 22. Before him are Eva Gonzalès, Ellen Key, Max Nordau, Alexander Kielland, Michael Ancher, and Empress Shōken. After him are Armand Peugeot, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Saionji Kinmochi, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, and Vera Zasulich. Among people deceased in 1917, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 27. Before him are Radomir Putnik, Liliʻuokalani, Dadabhai Naoroji, Léon Bloy, Jean Gaston Darboux, and Adolph Wagner. After him are Hugo Simberg, Lucien Petit-Breton, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Émile Boirac, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Maximilian von Prittwitz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 1,254 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Nena (1960), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), and Walter Simons (1861). After him are Theodor Busse (1897), August von Wassermann (1866), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), and Heinrich Barth (1821).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ranks 24. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Andrew Wiles (1953), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), and Ernst Zermelo (1871). After him are Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Thomas Abbt (1738), Maria Reiche (1903), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), and Michael Stifel (1487).

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