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Jørgen Pedersen Gram

1850 - 1916

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Jørgen Pedersen Gram (27 June 1850 – 29 April 1916) was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. Important papers of his include On series expansions determined by the methods of least squares, and Investigations of the number of primes less than a given number. The mathematical method that bears his name, the Gram–Schmidt process, was first published in the former paper, in 1883.For number theorists his main fame is the series for the Riemann zeta function (the leading function in Riemann's exact prime-counting function). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jørgen Pedersen Gram has received more than 77,815 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jørgen Pedersen Gram is the 863rd most popular mathematician (down from 700th in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Denmark (down from 456th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Mathematician.

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Over the past year Jørgen Pedersen Gram has had the most page views in the with 9,811 views, followed by German (1,383), and French (804). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovenian (70.68%), Catalan (55.02%), and Slovak (50.82%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jørgen Pedersen Gram ranks 863 out of 1,004. Before him are Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Taylor, Hans Rademacher, Roger Apéry, Michael Aschbacher, and Richard Brauer. After him are William Shanks, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Francesco Severi, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Thomas Heath, and Solomon Marcus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Jørgen Pedersen Gram ranks 110. Before him are John Milne, Guerra Junqueiro, William H. Welch, Hans von Pechmann, Daniel Chester French, and Nikolai Golitsyn. After him are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Yelena Polenova, Heinrich Peters, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Munro Longyear, and Constantin Henriquez. Among people deceased in 1916, Jørgen Pedersen Gram ranks 143. Before him are Daniel Oliver, Aeneas Mackintosh, Oskar Gripenberg, Guido Gozzano, Hermann Martens, and Béla Békessy. After him are William Stanley Jr., Tom Clarke, Lydia Zvereva, George Butterworth, Samu Fóti, and Joseph Plunkett.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jørgen Pedersen Gram ranks 571 out of 1,032. Before him are Anders Thomas Jensen (1972), Mariann Fischer Boel (1943), Lily Carlstedt (1926), Jan Mølby (1963), Deepika Padukone (1986), and Carl Edvard Rotwitt (1812). After him are Ester Boserup (1910), Johan Lange (1818), Tom Kristensen (1967), Klaus Berggreen (1958), Jens Albinus (1965), and Birthe Kjær (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Jørgen Pedersen Gram ranks 7. Before him are Harald Bohr (1887), Piet Hein (1905), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Julius Petersen (1839), Georg Mohr (1640), and Johan Jensen (1859). After him are Poul Heegaard (1871).

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