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Gerhard Gentzen

1909 - 1945

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Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen (24 November 1909 – 4 August 1945) was a German mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard Gentzen has received more than 120,407 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhard Gentzen is the 334th most popular mathematician (down from 323rd in 2019), the 2,275th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,165th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gerhard Gentzen ranks 334 out of 823. Before him are Kunihiko Kodaira, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Jean Dieudonné, Guidobaldo del Monte, Richard Courant, and George Green. After him are Abraham Wald, Edward Waring, Felix Bernstein, Jesse Douglas, Pietro Cataldi, and Richard Hamming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Gerhard Gentzen ranks 108. Before him are Wolfgang Reitherman, Teiichi Matsumaru, Georg Konrad Morgen, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, David Riesman, and Mehmed Orhan. After him are Indro Montanelli, Lamberto Maggiorani, Juan Bosch, André Cayatte, Richard Wurmbrand, and Carl Gustaf von Rosen. Among people deceased in 1945, Gerhard Gentzen ranks 158. Before him are André Tardieu, Heinrich Ehrler, Isamu Chō, Alfred Meyer, Gustav Flatow, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito. After him are Vilém Mathesius, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Jacques Doriot, Günther Lützow, Peter Högl, and Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard Gentzen ranks 2,275 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658), Ludwig Klages (1872), Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), and Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700). After him are Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684), Max Pauly (1907), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676), and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Gerhard Gentzen ranks 38. Before him are Julius Plücker (1801), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Edmund Landau (1877), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821). After him are Felix Bernstein (1878), Thomas Fincke (1561), Michael Maestlin (1550), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), and Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829).

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