MATHEMATICIAN

Hermann Schwarz

1843 - 1921

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Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃvaʁts]; 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Schwarz has received more than 149,813 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hermann Schwarz is the 211th most popular mathematician (up from 213th in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Poland (up from 276th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Hermann Schwarz is most famous for his discovery of the Schwarzschild radius, which is the radius of a black hole.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Schwarz ranks 211 out of 1,004. Before him are Paolo Ruffini, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Michael Atiyah, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, and Constantin Carathéodory. After him are Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Autolycus of Pitane, Willem de Sitter, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Callippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Hermann Schwarz ranks 25. Before him are Oscar Montelius, Walther Flemming, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Georg von Hertling, Henryk Siemiradzki, and Teófilo Braga. After him are Camillo Sitte, David Popper, Anton von Werner, Mariano Rampolla, Mikhail Skobelev, and Hans Richter. Among people deceased in 1921, Hermann Schwarz ranks 32. Before him are Julius Richard Petri, Antoni Grabowski, Karl von Bülow, Subramania Bharati, Nikolay Zhukovsky, and Živojin Mišić. After him are Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Yan Fu, Robert de Montesquiou, Ivan Vazov, Georges Feydeau, and Nikolay Gumilyov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Schwarz ranks 275 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Kochanowski (1530), Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Victor Klemperer (1881), Casimir II the Just (1138), and Edward Gierek (1913). After him are Johannes Zukertort (1842), Leszek the White (1186), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Lilli Palmer (1914).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Hermann Schwarz ranks 10. Before him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), and Hermann Grassmann (1809). After him are Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865).

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