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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 68,449 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Petzval is the 240th most popular mathematician (down from 202nd in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Petzval ranks 240 out of 823. Before him are Al-Khazini, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Émile Picard, Robert Recorde, Michel Chasles, and Eduard Heine. After him are Alfred Korzybski, Leo Perutz, Ibn al-Shatir, George Atwood, Farkas Bolyai, and Israel Gelfand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph Petzval ranks 13. Before him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Louis Agassiz, Harriet Taylor Mill, Anthony Mary Claret, and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg. After him are Alfred Vail, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Joseph E. Johnston, and Aloysius Bertrand. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Petzval ranks 34. Before him are Ernest Meissonier, Édouard Lucas, Theophil Hansen, Edmond Becquerel, Johan Jongkind, and Kalākaua. After him are Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Théodore de Banville, N. R. Pogson, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, and Fredrik Pacius.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Joseph Petzval ranks 47 out of 357. Before him are Ernő Gerő (1898), Rudolf Vrba (1924), Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833), Jozef Tomko (1924), Milan Hodža (1878), and Matthew III Csák (1260). After him are Vazul (1000), Franz Schmidt (1874), András Hadik (1710), Andrej Kiska (1963), Ferdinand Daučík (1910), and Jan Kupecký (1667).

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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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