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Johann Friedrich Pfaff

1765 - 1825

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Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes spelled Friederich; 22 December 1765 – 21 April 1825) was a German mathematician. He was described as one of Germany's most eminent mathematicians during the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Pfaff has received more than 125,784 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Pfaff is the 478th most popular mathematician (down from 456th in 2019), the 3,123rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,788th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Friedrich Pfaff ranks 478 out of 823. Before him are George David Birkhoff, Edward Arthur Milne, Eric Temple Bell, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, and Jean Leray. After him are Yves Meyer, David Mumford, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Aleksandr Khinchin, Louis Nirenberg, and Nina Bari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Johann Friedrich Pfaff ranks 24. Before him are Nguyễn Du, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Charles Hatchett, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Eli Whitney, and Joseph Leopold Eybler. After him are Daniel Steibelt, James Smithson, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Antonio Nariño. Among people deceased in 1825, Johann Friedrich Pfaff ranks 24. Before him are Karl Mollweide, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Daniel D. Tompkins, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Peter Winter. After him are Utagawa Toyokuni, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Pierre Gaveaux, and Juan Martín Díez.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Pfaff ranks 3,123 out of 6,142. Before him are Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (1652), John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1567), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1568), and Lothar Emmerich (1941). After him are Helene Mayer (1910), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Alexander Gode (1906), Paul Renner (1878), Otto Lehmann (1855), and Hans Hofmann (1880).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Pfaff ranks 58. Before him are Johann Samuel König (1712), Max Dehn (1878), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Lothar Collatz (1910), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), and Adam Ries (1492). After him are Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Martin Ohm (1792), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Gerd Faltings (1954), and Carl Adam Petri (1926).

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