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Jakob Steiner

1796 - 1863

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Jakob Steiner (18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Steiner has received more than 141,251 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jakob Steiner is the 192nd most popular mathematician (down from 149th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Jakob Steiner is most famous for his work in the fields of thermodynamics and heat transfer. He is best known for his book Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, which was published in 1920.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jakob Steiner ranks 192 out of 1,004. Before him are Jan Łukasiewicz, Ahmes, Georg von Peuerbach, Jean Gaston Darboux, Hermann Grassmann, and Abu Nasr Mansur. After him are Gabriel Lamé, Theaetetus, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Al-Khazini, Giovanni Ceva, and Al-Karaji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Jakob Steiner ranks 9. Before him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Adolphe Quetelet, Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Franz Berwald, and Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg. After him are Peter Fendi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Carl Loewe, Ang Duong, James Bowie, and Giovanni Pacini. Among people deceased in 1863, Jakob Steiner ranks 10. Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Alfred de Vigny, Horace Vernet, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Solomon Northup. After him are Stonewall Jackson, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Sam Houston, Natalia Pushkina, and Auguste Bravais.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Steiner ranks 118 out of 1,015. Before him are Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), César Ritz (1850), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945). After him are Jacques Dubochet (1942), Charles Bonnet (1720), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Paul Guldin (1577), Blaise Cendrars (1887), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jakob Steiner ranks 6. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Gabriel Cramer (1704), and Jost Bürgi (1552). After him are Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750).

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