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Nicholas Mercator

1620 - 1687

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Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician. He was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which he lived from 1642 to 1648 in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Mercator has received more than 45,905 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Mercator is the 335th most popular mathematician (down from 296th in 2019), the 2,279th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,029th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nicholas Mercator ranks 335 out of 1,004. Before him are Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, Guidobaldo del Monte, Sergei Sobolev, Guillaume Postel, and Pietro Cataldi. After him are Sergei Novikov, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Frank P. Ramsey, and Gaston Julia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Nicholas Mercator ranks 13. Before him are Jean Picard, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, John Graunt, and François Bernier. After him are Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Isabella Leonarda, Masaniello, Abraham van Beijeren, Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Marguerite Bourgeoys. Among people deceased in 1687, Nicholas Mercator ranks 7. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lully, Johannes Hevelius, William Petty, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Constantijn Huygens, and Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Henry More, Nell Gwyn, Laura Martinozzi, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, François de Créquy, and Geminiano Montanari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicholas Mercator ranks 2,279 out of 7,253. Before him are Bert Kaempfert (1923), Hieronymus Bock (1498), Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (1871), Walther Gerlach (1889), Eugen Meindl (1892), and Balthasar Hubmaier (1485). After him are Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Wilhelm Souchon (1864), Ernst von Salomon (1902), Ferdinand von Bredow (1884), Karl Ernst (1904), and Helmold (1120).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Nicholas Mercator ranks 40. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), and Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765). After him are Julius Plücker (1801), Lothar Collatz (1910), Felix Bernstein (1878), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), and Hans Freudenthal (1905).

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