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Friedrich Hirzebruch

1927 - 2012

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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Hirzebruch has received more than 92,925 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Hirzebruch is the 456th most popular mathematician (up from 489th in 2019), the 3,013th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,981st in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 456 out of 823Before him are Ion Ghica, Francesco Maurolico, Lothar Collatz, Enrico Betti, Auguste Kerckhoffs, and John Hadley. After him are Thomas Bradwardine, Geminus, Pierre Fatou, Roger Cotes, Maryam Mirzakhani, and Whitfield Diffie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 164Before him are Joan Segarra, Kenneth Anger, Ales Adamovich, Elvin Jones, Erich Probst, and Tom Bosley. After him are Juan Alonso, Joe Turkel, Florencio Campomanes, Jack Cassidy, Bernard Fox, and Oleg Yefremov. Among people deceased in 2012, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 164Before him are Barry Commoner, George McGovern, Jack Klugman, Roy Salvadori, Adrienne Rich, and Rajesh Khanna. After him are Josef Škvorecký, Claude Pinoteau, Ann Rutherford, I. K. Gujral, Jiří Raška, and Leonardo Favio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 3,013 out of 6,142Before him are Fritz Darges (1913), Friedrich Wolf (1888), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), and Peter Thiel (1967). After him are Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Meryem Uzerli (1983), Hans-Joachim Stuck (1951), Henny Porten (1890), and Alfred Delp (1907).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 56Before him are Otto Hölder (1859), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Johann Samuel König (1712), Max Dehn (1878), Henryk Zygalski (1908), and Lothar Collatz (1910). After him are Adam Ries (1492), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Martin Ohm (1792), and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719).