MATHEMATICIAN

Helge von Koch

1870 - 1924

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Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (25 January 1870 – 11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. He was born to Swedish nobility. His grandfather, Nils Samuel von Koch (1801–1881), was the Chancellor of Justice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helge von Koch has received more than 103,893 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Helge von Koch is the 291st most popular mathematician (down from 264th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 258th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Helge von Koch ranks 291 out of 1,004. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Michael Maestlin, and Pavel Alexandrov. After him are Issai Schur, William George Horner, Yi Xing, Liu Xin, Vergilius of Salzburg, and Olga Ladyzhenskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Helge von Koch ranks 60. Before him are Vítězslav Novák, Alexandre Benois, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Oscar Straus, Florent Schmitt, and Vladimir Purishkevich. After him are Leopold Godowsky, Guillaume Lekeu, Emil Orlík, David Riazanov, Herbert Kilpin, and Saki. Among people deceased in 1924, Helge von Koch ranks 40. Before him are Matsukata Masayoshi, Aleksa Šantić, Théodore Dubois, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Roland Bonaparte, and Franz von Bayros. After him are Valery Bryusov, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Jacques de Morgan, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Dimitar Blagoev.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Helge von Koch ranks 277 out of 1,879. Before him are Harry Nyquist (1889), Joey Tempest (1963), Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Börje Salming (1951), and Stig Blomqvist (1946). After him are Per Wahlöö (1926), Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), and Mikael Persbrandt (1963).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Sweden

Among mathematicians born in Sweden, Helge von Koch ranks 2. Before him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846). After him are Lennart Carleson (1928), Lars Hörmander (1931), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Harald Cramér (1893), and Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861).

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