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Francesco Faà di Bruno

1825 - 1888

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Francesco Faà di Bruno (7 March 1825 – 25 March 1888) was an Italian priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Faà di Bruno has received more than 53,256 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Francesco Faà di Bruno is the 636th most popular mathematician (down from 624th in 2019), the 3,167th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,958th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Francesco Faà di Bruno ranks 636 out of 823Before him are Johann Benedict Listing, Alfréd Haar, Eduard Čech, Robert Simson, Carl Neumann, and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt. After him are Thoralf Skolem, Claude Chevalley, Shigefumi Mori, Vladimir Drinfeld, Paul Bernays, and Paul du Bois-Reymond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Francesco Faà di Bruno ranks 59Before him are Aníbal Pinto, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, George Pickett, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, and Domingo Santa María. After him are Pashko Vasa, Emil Welti, Ferdinand von Mueller, E. Marlitt, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, and Anton Heinrich Springer. Among people deceased in 1888, Francesco Faà di Bruno ranks 67Before him are Amos Bronson Alcott, George Robert Waterhouse, Anna Kingsford, Philip Henry Gosse, Asa Gray, and Carl Christian Hall. After him are Charles Duclerc, Alessandro Antonelli, Jan van Beers, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Arsène Darmesteter, and Richard A. Proctor.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Faà di Bruno ranks 3,167 out of 4,668Before him are Pietro Ferraris (1912), Giuseppe Pitrè (1841), Eugenio Garin (1909), Alberto Braglia (1883), Mario Genta (1912), and Fulvio Bernardini (1905). After him are Claudio Marchisio (1986), Nilla Pizzi (1919), Graziano Rossi (1954), Angelo Anquilletti (1943), Giuseppe Merisi (1938), and Ivan Capelli (1963).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Francesco Faà di Bruno ranks 52Before him are Gino Fano (1871), Luigi Bianchi (1856), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781), Federico Commandino (1509), and Ennio de Giorgi (1928). After him are Guido Castelnuovo (1865), Giuseppe Vitali (1875), Federigo Enriques (1871), Eugenio Calabi (1923), Cesare Arzelà (1847), and Francesco Brioschi (1824).