MATHEMATICIAN

Oswald Veblen

1880 - 1960

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Oswald Veblen (June 24, 1880 – August 10, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Veblen has received more than 197,590 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Oswald Veblen is the 660th most popular mathematician (down from 614th in 2019), the 5,730th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,475th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oswald Veblen ranks 660 out of 1,004. Before him are Thomas Digges, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Jerzy Różycki, Johann Schreck, Nicolas Fuss, and Cesare Arzelà. After him are Alessandro Galilei, Saunders Mac Lane, Đuro Kurepa, Arnaud Denjoy, Kenneth Appel, and Pierre-Louis Lions.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Oswald Veblen ranks 148. Before him are Agha Petros, Jacob Epstein, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, Thomas H. Ince, Jesse L. Lasky, and Seán O'Casey. After him are Fred Alexander, Louis Hémon, Viggo Larsen, Radclyffe Hall, Lawrence Oates, and Hans Moser. Among people deceased in 1960, Oswald Veblen ranks 138. Before him are Nevil Shute, Eduard Pütsep, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Noël Bas, and Teodoro Picado Michalski. After him are Arthur Legat, Jamil Mardam Bey, André Patry, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Aly Khan, and Fred Buscaglione.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Oswald Veblen ranks 5,730 out of 20,380. Before him are Raymond J. Barry (1939), Reggie Miller (1965), Jack Bender (1949), Mickey Marcus (1901), Christopher Guest (1948), and Tyson Gay (1982). After him are Helen Johns (1914), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Lou Thesz (1916), Joanna Moore (1934), Raymond Cruz (1961), and Squanto (1585).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Oswald Veblen ranks 42. Before him are Benjamin Peirce (1809), Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), and Harold Hotelling (1895). After him are Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), Charles Fefferman (1949), and Gladys West (1930).

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