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MATHEMATICIAN

Marcel Grossmann

1878 - 1936

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Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zürich. His father managed a textile factory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Grossmann has received more than 224,353 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Grossmann is the 193rd most popular mathematician (up from 232nd in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 142nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marcel Grossmann ranks 193 out of 823Before him are Vladimir Arnold, Al-Karaji, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Scipione del Ferro, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Callippus. After him are Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Jan Łukasiewicz, Richard von Mises, Laurent Schwartz, Édouard Lucas, and Georg von Peuerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Marcel Grossmann ranks 32Before him are Alexander von Falkenhausen, Elizabeth Arden, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Arthur Scherbius, P. D. Ouspensky, and Léon Werth. After him are Jan Łukasiewicz, George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, Clemens August Graf von Galen, and Mahmud Barzanji. Among people deceased in 1936, Marcel Grossmann ranks 51Before him are Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Gustloff, José Sanjurjo, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Bertha Pappenheim, and Duan Qirui. After him are Max Schreck, Kikunae Ikeda, Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, Mikhail Tomsky, and Edward Bach.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 128 out of 866Before him are Miklós Rózsa (1907), Max Nordau (1849), Aurel Stein (1862), Imi Lichtenfeld (1910), Peter Delyan (1009), and Miklós Jancsó (1921). After him are Arthur Nikisch (1855), Mária Telkes (1900), László Papp (1926), George I Rákóczi (1593), Leopold Auer (1845), and André Kertész (1894).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 4Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), and George Pólya (1887). After him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Peter Lax (1926), Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), and Pál Turán (1910).