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Karl Mollweide

1774 - 1825

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Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he rediscovered the formula now known as Mollweide's formula. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Mollweide has received more than 27,530 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karl Mollweide is the 481st most popular mathematician (down from 418th in 2019), the 3,202nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,818th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karl Mollweide ranks 481 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Mahani, Federico Commandino, Adam Ries, Johann Samuel König, Lazarus Fuchs, and George David Birkhoff. After him are Ion Ghica, W. V. D. Hodge, Samuel Eilenberg, David Mumford, Moritz Pasch, and Alfred Pringsheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Karl Mollweide ranks 25. Before him are Francis Baily, Matthew Flinders, Pierre Rode, Daniel D. Tompkins, Marie-Denise Villers, and Georg von Langsdorff. After him are André Marie Constant Duméril, Meriwether Lewis, Václav Tomášek, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Dawud Pasha of Baghdad. Among people deceased in 1825, Karl Mollweide ranks 25. Before him are Vladimir Borovikovsky, Juan Martín Díez, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Daniel D. Tompkins, Utagawa Toyokuni, and Jan Václav Voříšek. After him are Pierre Gaveaux, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Peter Winter, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Maha Bandula, and Johann Karl Burckhardt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 3,202 out of 7,253. Before him are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Henny Porten (1890), Martin Winterkorn (1947), and Hans-Jörg Butt (1974). After him are Boris Pistorius (1960), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), Eugen Langen (1833), Walter Heitler (1904), and John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 58. Before him are Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), Ernst Schröder (1841), Hermann Hankel (1839), Adam Ries (1492), and Johann Samuel König (1712). After him are Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), Gerd Faltings (1954), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Otto Hölder (1859), and Martin Ohm (1792).

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