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Franz Mertens

1840 - 1927

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Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also known as Franciszek Mertens) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria. The Mertens function M(x) is the sum function for the Möbius function, in the theory of arithmetic functions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Mertens has received more than 40,933 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Mertens is the 775th most popular mathematician, the 1,043rd most popular biography from Poland and the 35th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Franz Mertens ranks 775 out of 1,004. Before him are Leonida Tonelli, Gilbert Strang, Walter Rudin, Wendelin Werner, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, and Oskar Perron. After him are Gu Chaohao, Vaughan Jones, Martin Davis, Hassler Whitney, Nikolai Chebotaryov, and Hua Luogeng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Franz Mertens ranks 86. Before him are William Henry Conley, Simeon Solomon, Jeanna Bauck, Ghazaros Aghayan, John Philip Holland, and Charles Booth. After him are Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Jakub Arbes, American Horse, Richard Knill Freeman, and Sophia Jex-Blake. Among people deceased in 1927, Franz Mertens ranks 121. Before him are Marie Spartali Stillman, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, J. B. Bury, Vincenzo Cerulli, Feliciano Viera, and Kenjirō Tokutomi. After him are Kristian Prestrud, Reginald Dyer, Klaus Berntsen, Ricardo Güiraldes, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, and Marcus Loew.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franz Mertens ranks 1,043 out of 1,694. Before him are Theodor Kotschy (1813), Jean de Reszke (1850), Ludwig Traube (1818), Aharon Katzir (1914), Johannes Thiele (1865), and Józef Pankiewicz (1866). After him are Edward Babiuch (1927), Gustaw Holoubek (1923), Mariusz Pudzianowski (1977), Piotr Zieliński (1994), Käthe Kruse (1883), and Halina Górecka (1938).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Franz Mertens ranks 35. Before him are Jan Śniadecki (1756), Paul Gordan (1837), Otto Toeplitz (1881), Heinz Hopf (1894), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), and Leo Königsberger (1837). After him are Erich Hecke (1887), Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888), Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882), Hans Lewy (1904), Nathan Jacobson (1910), and Salomon Bochner (1899).

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