MATHEMATICIAN

Leonard Nelson

1882 - 1927

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Leonard Nelson (; German: [ˈnɛlzɔn]; 11 July 1882 – 29 October 1927), sometimes spelt Leonhard, was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He was part of the neo-Friesian school (named after post-Kantian philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries) of neo-Kantianism and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Nelson has received more than 72,069 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leonard Nelson is the 734th most popular mathematician (down from 728th in 2019), the 4,539th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,282nd in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leonard Nelson ranks 734 out of 1,004. Before him are Wilhelm Killing, William Kahan, Oswald Teichmüller, Stanisław Zaremba, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, and Antanas Mockus. After him are Mikhail Lavrentyev, Saharon Shelah, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Douglas Hartree, Daniel Quillen, and Sergey Mergelyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Leonard Nelson ranks 206. Before him are Harold D. Babcock, Percy Grainger, Aristarkh Lentulov, Mustafa Subhi, Leonard Meredith, and José Luis Tejada Sorzano. After him are Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Wyndham Halswelle, Juan Luque de Serrallonga, Sven Forssman, Purushottam Das Tandon, and Ernestas Galvanauskas. Among people deceased in 1927, Leonard Nelson ranks 113. Before him are Wang Guowei, Hermann von Stein, Marianne Stokes, Henri Hubert, Friedrich Reinitzer, and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. After him are John Henry Davies, Marie Spartali Stillman, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, J. B. Bury, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Feliciano Viera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonard Nelson ranks 4,539 out of 7,253. Before him are Erik Spiekermann (1947), Alwin Mittasch (1869), Sheryl Lee (1967), Andreas Krieger (1965), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837). After him are Natja Brunckhorst (1966), Saul Rubinek (1948), Carl Locher (1851), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), and Gustav Spörer (1822).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Leonard Nelson ranks 85. Before him are Fritz Noether (1884), Johann Schreck (1576), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Wilhelm Killing (1847), and Oswald Teichmüller (1913). After him are Erich Kähler (1906), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Johann Faulhaber (1580), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oskar Perron (1880), and Wolfgang Krull (1899).

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