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Gotthold Eisenstein

1823 - 1852

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Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (16 April 1823 – 11 October 1852) was a German mathematician. He specialized in number theory and analysis, and proved several results that eluded even Gauss. Like Galois and Abel before him, Eisenstein died before the age of 30. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotthold Eisenstein has received more than 166,645 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Gotthold Eisenstein is the 318th most popular mathematician (down from 263rd in 2019), the 2,108th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,759th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Mathematician.

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Over the past year Gotthold Eisenstein has had the most page views in the with 25,859 views, followed by Japanese (3,392), and German (2,636). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (486.54%), Malagasy (76.64%), and Sicilian (72.58%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gotthold Eisenstein ranks 318 out of 1,004. Before him are John Graunt, John Milnor, Johannes Widmann, John G. Thompson, Oronce Finé, and Theodor Kaluza. After him are Abraham Wald, Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Stephen Smale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Gotthold Eisenstein ranks 26. Before him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Ante Starčević, Konstantin Ushinsky, John Russell Hind, Théodore de Banville, and Pyotr Lavrov. After him are Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Joseph Monier, Jean Chacornac, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Katsu Kaishū, and Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev. Among people deceased in 1852, Gotthold Eisenstein ranks 23. Before him are Thomas Moore, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Hadji Murad, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Táhirih, and Gideon Mantell. After him are Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Matthias Castrén, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Étienne Maurice Gérard, and Amir Kabir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gotthold Eisenstein ranks 2,108 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Johann Trollmann (1907), Alfred Hettner (1859), Karl Baedeker (1801), and William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598). After him are Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), Matthias Jabs (1955), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Karl Rapp (1882), and William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Gotthold Eisenstein ranks 37. Before him are Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Michael Maestlin (1550), and Wilhelm Ackermann (1896). After him are August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Julius Plücker (1801), Lothar Collatz (1910), and Felix Bernstein (1878).

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