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Grete Hermann

1901 - 1984

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Grete Hermann (2 March 1901 – 15 April 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a "no hidden-variables theorem" by John von Neumann. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grete Hermann has received more than 105,088 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Grete Hermann is the 609th most popular mathematician (up from 618th in 2019), the 3,947th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,800th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Over the past year Grete Hermann has had the most page views in the with 18,067 views, followed by German (3,939), and Spanish (2,636). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (140.00%), Kurdish (Sorani) (130.47%), and Catalan (74.01%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Grete Hermann ranks 609 out of 1,004. Before her are Michael Freedman, Harish-Chandra, Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, Luigi Bianchi, and Ilia Vekua. After her are Friedrich Waismann, Richard Montague, Rózsa Péter, Carl Adam Petri, Jan Śniadecki, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Grete Hermann ranks 189. Before her are Alberto Hurtado, Ivan Pyryev, Mária Mednyánszky, Curt Bois, Haj Ali Razmara, and Sekiryo Kaneda. After her are Jan de Quay, Manly P. Hall, Juan García Oliver, Maurice Evans, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Nora Gregor. Among people deceased in 1984, Grete Hermann ranks 151. Before her are Aldo Donati, Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Merman, Vincent J. McMahon, Sven Jonasson, and Ralph Kirkpatrick. After her are Joan Lindsay, Marcel Moyse, Peter Walker, Fulvio Bernardini, Claude Chevalley, and Luke Kelly.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Grete Hermann ranks 3,947 out of 7,253. Before her are Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621), Paul Mebus (1920), Bernd Schneider (1973), and Johann Peter Salomon (1745). After her are Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Paul Pietsch (1911), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Edgar Reitz (1932), and Marco Rose (1976).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Grete Hermann ranks 73. Before her are Max August Zorn (1906), Max Dehn (1878), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), and Wilhelm Jordan (1842). After her are Carl Adam Petri (1926), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), and Fritz Noether (1884).

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