MATHEMATICIAN

Joseph Petzval

1807 - 1891

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Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia). Petzval studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum (currently Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Buda (today part of Budapest). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Petzval has received more than 72,768 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joseph Petzval is the 232nd most popular mathematician (up from 240th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Petzval ranks 232 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, and Piet Hein. After him are Seymour Papert, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, Isaac Beeckman, and Farkas Bolyai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph Petzval ranks 11. Before him are Louis Agassiz, Anthony Mary Claret, Lajos Batthyány, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, and Princess Feodora of Leiningen. After him are Harriet Taylor Mill, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Alfred Vail, and Joseph E. Johnston. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Petzval ranks 34. Before him are Princess Cecilie of Baden, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Ernest Meissonier, Kalākaua, Johan Jongkind, and William Tecumseh Sherman. After him are Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Leon Pinsker, Joseph E. Johnston, Théodore de Banville, and Fredrik Pacius.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Joseph Petzval ranks 41 out of 418. Before him are Pál Maléter (1917), Peter Lorre (1904), Michal Kováč (1930), Milan Hodža (1878), Lucia Popp (1939), and Matthew III Csák (1260). After him are Ferdinand Daučík (1910), Teréz Brunszvik (1775), Ernő Gerő (1898), Adolf Scherer (1938), András Hadik (1710), and Vazul (1000).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Slovakia

Among mathematicians born in Slovakia, Joseph Petzval ranks 1. After him are Ludwig Schlesinger (1864).

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