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Ludwig Schläfli

1814 - 1895

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Ludwig Schläfli (15 January 1814 – 20 March 1895) was a Swiss mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spaces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Schläfli has received more than 91,662 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludwig Schläfli is the 822nd most popular mathematician (down from 736th in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 498th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ludwig Schläfli ranks 822 out of 1,004. Before him are Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Armand Borel, James Waddell Alexander II, Boris Galerkin, Laurent Lafforgue, and Nikolai Bugaev. After him are Claire Voisin, Ivan Petrovsky, Heinz Prüfer, Stanislav Smirnov, Peter Tait, and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Ludwig Schläfli ranks 67. Before him are Oskar Kolberg, Nicolaas Beets, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Dimitrios Valvis, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, and Samuel J. Tilden. After him are Jānis Cimze, George-Étienne Cartier, José Posada Herrera, Charles Mackay, John C. Pemberton, and Lorenzo Snow. Among people deceased in 1895, Ludwig Schläfli ranks 82. Before him are Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, Joseph Thomson, Giuseppe Prinzi, Abu Bakar of Johor, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, and Heinrich Moritz Willkomm. After him are Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Charles Frédéric Girard, Henry Seebohm, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Morris Hunt, and Lady Charlotte Guest.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ludwig Schläfli ranks 568 out of 1,015. Before him are Bruno Heim (1911), Casimir de Candolle (1836), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), Armand Borel (1923), Ernst Stueckelberg (1905), and Max de Terra (1918). After him are Leon Schlumpf (1925), Uri Rosenthal (1945), Toni Branca (1916), Karl Röderer (1868), Adolf Spinnler (1879), and Jean Tamini (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Ludwig Schläfli ranks 19. Before him are Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jakob Hermann (1678), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Georges de Rham (1903), and Armand Borel (1923). After him are Martin Hairer (1975).

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