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Leopold Kronecker

1823 - 1891

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Leopold Kronecker (German: [ˈkʁoːnɛkɐ]; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Kronecker has received more than 388,984 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Leopold Kronecker is the 94th most popular mathematician (down from 93rd in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Poland (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Mathematician.

Leopold Kronecker is most famous for his statement "God created the integers, all else is the work of man."

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leopold Kronecker ranks 94 out of 1,004. Before him are Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, and Siméon Denis Poisson. After him are Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Isaac Barrow, and Grigori Perelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Leopold Kronecker ranks 8. Before him are Phineas Gage, Max Müller, Alfred Russel Wallace, Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, and Sándor Petőfi. After him are Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, Jean-Henri Fabre, Li Hongzhang, John Sherman, and Mihailo Obrenović. Among people deceased in 1891, Leopold Kronecker ranks 14. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Theo van Gogh. After him are Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Albert Pike, Ivan Goncharov, Jules Grévy, Jan Neruda, and Charles I of Württemberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leopold Kronecker ranks 106 out of 1,694. Before him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), and Maria Feodorovna (1759). After him are Hanna Reitsch (1912), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Jarosław Kaczyński (1949).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Leopold Kronecker ranks 3. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), and Stefan Banach (1892). After him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Alfred Korzybski (1879).

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