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Paolo Ruffini

1765 - 1822

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Paolo Ruffini (22 September 1765 – 10 May 1822) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paolo Ruffini has received more than 108,961 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Paolo Ruffini is the 205th most popular mathematician, the 1,354th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paolo Ruffini ranks 205 out of 1,004. Before him are Laurent Schwartz, Pedro Nunes, Theodorus of Cyrene, Richard von Mises, Paul Guldin, and Tullio Levi-Civita. After him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Michael Atiyah, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, and Hermann Schwarz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Paolo Ruffini ranks 10. Before him are Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Pyotr Bagration, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Charles Felix of Sardinia, and Emma, Lady Hamilton. After him are Jacques MacDonald, Karl Ludwig Harding, José María Morelos, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1822, Paolo Ruffini ranks 11. Before him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Giovanni Battista Venturi. After him are René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Jean-Robert Argand, and Sophie de Condorcet.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paolo Ruffini ranks 1,354 out of 5,161. Before him are Domitia Longina (100), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Sabrina Salerno (1968), Ludovico Manin (1725), and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467). After him are Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Vittorio Storaro (1940), Paolo Giovio (1483), Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (-49), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), and Carlo Gambino (1902).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Paolo Ruffini ranks 21. Before him are Scipione del Ferro (1465), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), Giovanni Ceva (1647), and Tullio Levi-Civita (1873). After him are Jacopo Riccati (1676), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Enrico Bombieri (1940), and Guidobaldo del Monte (1545).

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