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Jakob Hermann

1678 - 1733

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Jakob Hermann (16 July 1678 – 11 July 1733) was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He is the author of Phoronomia, an early treatise on mechanics in Latin, which has been translated by Ian Bruce in 2015-16. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Hermann has received more than 25,989 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob Hermann is the 535th most popular mathematician (down from 485th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 310th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jakob Hermann ranks 535 out of 1,004. Before him are Max Noether, Heinrich Martin Weber, Egon Pearson, Ismaël Bullialdus, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Erik Ivar Fredholm. After him are Sydney Chapman, Willem 's Gravesande, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Pál Turán, Simon von Stampfer, and D. R. Kaprekar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Jakob Hermann ranks 12. Before him are Filippo Juvarra, Peter Lacy, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, and Abraham Darby I. After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, and Pierre Raymond de Montmort. Among people deceased in 1733, Jakob Hermann ranks 15. Before him are Nicolas Coustou, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Bernard Picart. After him is Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Hermann ranks 359 out of 1,015. Before him are Urs Graf (1485), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Albert Heim (1849), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), Henri Schwery (1932), and Hans Erni (1909). After him are Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Daniel Schmid (1941), Luuk de Jong (1990), Françoise Giroud (1916), and Stéphane Chapuisat (1969).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jakob Hermann ranks 14. Before him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann Baptist Cysat (1585). After him are Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Georges de Rham (1903), Armand Borel (1923), Ludwig Schläfli (1814), and Martin Hairer (1975).

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