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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 25,270 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Karl Mollweide is the 419th most popular mathematician (up from 434th in 2019), the 2,821st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,687th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karl Mollweide ranks 419 out of 823. Before him are Ernest William Brown, Diocles, Luigi Cremona, Viggo Brun, Adriaan van Roomen, and John Vitéz. After him are Lars Hörmander, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Goro Shimura, Otto Hölder, Mihailo Petrović, and Johann II Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Karl Mollweide ranks 21. Before him are Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Matthew Flinders, Lord William Bentinck, Francis Baily, Robert Southey, and Pierre Rode. After him are Václav Tomášek, Daniel D. Tompkins, Marie-Denise Villers, Meriwether Lewis, Johnny Appleseed, and Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1825, Karl Mollweide ranks 18. Before him are Vivant Denon, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Mikhail Miloradovich, Vladimir Borovikovsky, and Eli Whitney. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Daniel D. Tompkins, Jan Václav Voříšek, Peter Winter, and Johann Friedrich Pfaff.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 2,821 out of 6,142. Before him are Egon Bahr (1922), Adolf Schmal (1872), Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883), Matthias Claudius (1740), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), and Jens Böhrnsen (1949). After him are Theodor Meynert (1833), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Prince Alfons of Bavaria (1862), Robert Blum (1807), and Helmut Walcha (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 49. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), Helmut Hasse (1898), Ernst Schröder (1841), and Hermann Hankel (1839). After him are Otto Hölder (1859), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Johann Samuel König (1712), Max Dehn (1878), Henryk Zygalski (1908), and Lothar Collatz (1910).

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