1765 - 1822
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 103,623 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Paolo Ruffini is the 205th most popular mathematician (up from 215th in 2019), the 1,386th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,454th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Paolo Ruffini ranks 205 out of 823. Before him are Georg von Peuerbach, Abu Nasr Mansur, Constantin Carathéodory, Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, and Alonzo Church. After him are Autolycus of Pitane, Theodorus of Cyrene, Willem de Sitter, S. R. Ranganathan, Élie Cartan, and Henry Briggs.
1423 - 1461
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 199
960 - 1036
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 200
1873 - 1950
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 201
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 202
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 203
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 204
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 205
360 BC - 290 BC
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 206
465 BC - 398 BC
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 207
1872 - 1934
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 208
1892 - 1972
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 209
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 210
1561 - 1630
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 211
Among people born in 1765, Paolo Ruffini ranks 11. Before him are Pyotr Bagration, Jacques MacDonald, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are José María Morelos, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Franz Xaver von Baader, and Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. Among people deceased in 1822, Paolo Ruffini ranks 12. Before him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Valentin Haüy. After him are René Just Haüy, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl August von Hardenberg, Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, and Platon Zubov.
1765 - 1812
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 5
1765 - 1840
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 6
1765 - 1831
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 7
1765 - 1815
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 8
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 9
1765 - 1796
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 10
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 11
1765 - 1815
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 12
1765 - 1833
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 13
1765 - 1814
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 14
1765 - 1812
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 15
1765 - 1841
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 16
1765 - 1840
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 17
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 6
1738 - 1822
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 7
1766 - 1822
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 8
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 9
1749 - 1822
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 10
1745 - 1822
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 11
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 12
1743 - 1822
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 13
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 14
1750 - 1822
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
1768 - 1822
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 16
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 17
1767 - 1822
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 18
Among people born in Italy, Paolo Ruffini ranks 1,386 out of 4,668. Before him are Bernardino Ramazzini (1633), Bianca Maria Visconti (1425), Constantius Gallus (325), Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1490), Margaret of Cortona (1247), and Caesar Baronius (1538). After him are Andrea Alciato (1492), Veronica Giuliani (1660), Angelo Scola (1941), Battista Farina (1893), Trota of Salerno (1001), and Isabella de' Medici (1542).
1633 - 1714
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,380
1425 - 1468
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,381
325 - 354
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,382
1490 - 1538
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 1,383
1247 - 1297
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,384
1538 - 1607
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,385
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,386
1492 - 1550
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,387
1660 - 1727
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,388
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,389
1893 - 1966
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,390
1001 - 1200
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,391
1542 - 1576
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,392
Among mathematicians born in Italy, Paolo Ruffini ranks 19. Before him are Aloysius Lilius (1510), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), and Scipione del Ferro (1465). After him are Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Jacopo Riccati (1676), and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853).
1510 - 1576
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 13
1535 - 1615
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 14
1622 - 1703
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 15
1526 - 1573
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 16
1860 - 1940
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 17
1465 - 1526
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 18
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 19
1873 - 1941
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 20
1647 - 1734
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 21
1835 - 1900
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 22
1750 - 1800
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 23
1676 - 1754
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 24
1853 - 1925
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 25