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Maria Reiche

1903 - 1998

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Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann (15 May 1903 – 8 June 1998) was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Reiche has received more than 456,622 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Reiche is the 224th most popular mathematician (down from 182nd in 2019), the 1,408th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,164th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maria Reiche ranks 224 out of 1,004. Before her are Michel Chasles, Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, Henry Briggs, Thomas Abbt, and Anatoly Fomenko. After her are Israel Gelfand, Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, and Élie Cartan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Maria Reiche ranks 74. Before her are Erskine Caldwell, Joan Robinson, Sadegh Hedayat, Fritz Bauer, Waldemar Hoven, and Kim Chaek. After her are Johannes Heesters, Henry Corbin, Werner Best, Bob Hope, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, and Charlotte Perriand. Among people deceased in 1998, Maria Reiche ranks 48. Before her are Adem Jashari, David McClelland, Kunitaka Sueoka, Maurice Bucaille, Shoichi Nishimura, and Kurt Franz. After her are Marie-Louise von Franz, James Earl Ray, Sonny Bono, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Cozy Powell, and Martin Rodbell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maria Reiche ranks 1,408 out of 7,253. Before her are Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1218), Gottfried Böhm (1920), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Toni Kroos (1990), and Joachim Fest (1926). After her are Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), Joachim Sauer (1949), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Bernt Notke (1435), Brigitte Helm (1906), and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Maria Reiche ranks 27. Before her are Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), and Thomas Abbt (1738). After her are Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), and Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856).

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