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Ludolph van Ceulen

1540 - 1610

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Ludolph van Ceulen (German: [ˈluːdɔlf fan ˈkɔʏlən], Dutch: [ˈlydɔl(ə) fɑŋ ˈkøːlə(n)]; 28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludolph van Ceulen has received more than 103,580 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ludolph van Ceulen is the 68th most popular mathematician (down from 65th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Germany (up from 340th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Mathematician.

Ludolph van Ceulen is most famous for calculating the value of Pi to over 31 digits.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 68 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Minkowski, Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, Simon Stevin, Friedrich Bessel, and Abraham de Moivre. After him are Giuseppe Peano, Richard Dedekind, Alexander Grothendieck, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Bonaventura Cavalieri, and Zhang Heng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 3. Before him are Francis Drake, and François Viète. After him are Charles II, Archduke of Austria, John Sigismund Zápolya, Maharana Pratap, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Hümaşah Sultan, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Gasparo da Salò, and José de Acosta. Among people deceased in 1610, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 4. Before him are Caravaggio, Henry IV of France, and Matteo Ricci. After him are François Ravaillac, Honda Tadakatsu, Adam Elsheimer, False Dmitry II, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Anna of Sweden, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, and Hasegawa Tōhaku.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 335 out of 7,253. Before him are Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Einhard (770), Karl Haushofer (1869), Fritz Sauckel (1894), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), and Adolf von Baeyer (1835). After him are Adolf Butenandt (1903), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Emil Nolde (1867), Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652), and Jürgen Klinsmann (1964).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 10. Before him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Emmy Noether (1882), Gottlob Frege (1848), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), and Friedrich Bessel (1784). After him are Richard Dedekind (1831), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Regiomontanus (1436), Felix Klein (1849), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), and Christopher Clavius (1538).

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