MATHEMATICIAN

Heinz Prüfer

1896 - 1934

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Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer (10 November 1896 – 7 April 1934) was a German Jewish mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, graph theory, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. In 1915 he began his university studies in mathematics, physics and chemistry in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinz Prüfer has received more than 25,940 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Heinz Prüfer is the 825th most popular mathematician (down from 811th in 2019), the 4,987th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,659th in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Heinz Prüfer ranks 825 out of 1,004. Before him are Boris Galerkin, Laurent Lafforgue, Nikolai Bugaev, Ludwig Schläfli, Claire Voisin, and Ivan Petrovsky. After him are Stanislav Smirnov, Peter Tait, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Paul Montel, Garrett Birkhoff, and Annie S. D. Maunder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Heinz Prüfer ranks 222. Before him are Luiz Vinhaes, Enrique Hertzog, Albert Ball, Brock Chisholm, Blanche Sweet, and José Vidal. After him are Rodolfo Terlizzi, Margarete Adler, Virgil Thomson, José Naya, Kim Iryeop, and Horacio Muñoz. Among people deceased in 1934, Heinz Prüfer ranks 142. Before him are Horace Lamb, Majit Gafuri, Sergey Lebedev, Frank J. Sprague, Paul Henri Lecomte, and Broncia Koller-Pinell. After him are José Santos Chocano, Claudio Williman, William H. Welch, Ferenc Móra, Theobald Smith, and Dukinfield Henry Scott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz Prüfer ranks 4,987 out of 7,253. Before him are Aki Schmidt (1935), Dieter Krause (1936), George Eyser (1870), Jürgen Marcus (1948), Georg Dascher (1911), and Christina Lathan (1958). After him are Sigmund Haringer (1908), Wolfgang Clement (1940), Carl Amery (1922), Karl Mauch (1837), Volker Weidler (1962), and Barbara Hendricks (1952).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Heinz Prüfer ranks 95. Before him are Wendelin Werner (1968), Oskar Perron (1880), Wolfgang Krull (1899), Richard Rado (1906), Carl Hindenburg (1741), and Christoph Gudermann (1798). After him are Friedrich Engel (1861), Walther von Dyck (1856), Don Zagier (1951), Hans Rademacher (1892), Richard Brauer (1901), and Volker Strassen (1936).

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