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Nicolas Fuss

1755 - 1826

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Nicolas Fuss (29 January 1755 – 4 January 1826), also known as Nikolai Fuss, was a Swiss mathematician, living most of his life in the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Fuss has received more than 40,479 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Fuss is the 658th most popular mathematician (up from 791st in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 548th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nicolas Fuss ranks 658 out of 1,004. Before him are Charles Dupin, Jacobus Golius, Thomas Digges, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Jerzy Różycki, and Johann Schreck. After him are Cesare Arzelà, Oswald Veblen, Alessandro Galilei, Saunders Mac Lane, Đuro Kurepa, and Arnaud Denjoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Nicolas Fuss ranks 41. Before him are Sarah Siddons, Robert Kerr, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Stanisław Staszic, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, and Dorothea Viehmann. After him are Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Jacques Labillardière, Nathan Hale, Johann Christoph Wendland, and Oliver Evans. Among people deceased in 1826, Nicolas Fuss ranks 46. Before him are Kondraty Ryleyev, Alexander Gordon Laing, Johann Heinrich Voss, Stanisław Staszic, Germanos III of Old Patras, and Jacob Hübner. After him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, John Farey Sr., Antoni Malczewski, Ferdinand Bauer, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, and Iolo Morganwg.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Nicolas Fuss ranks 440 out of 1,015. Before him are René Felber (1933), Josef Munzinger (1791), Simeon Bavier (1825), Charles Antenen (1929), Walter Wild (1872), and Walther von Wartburg (1888). After him are Walter Breisky (1871), Alfred Kleiner (1849), Heinz Hermann (1958), Fritz Schär (1926), Joseph Benz (1944), and Aurèle Nicolet (1926).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Nicolas Fuss ranks 16. Before him are Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jakob Hermann (1678), and Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687). After him are Georges de Rham (1903), Armand Borel (1923), Ludwig Schläfli (1814), and Martin Hairer (1975).

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