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MATHEMATICIAN

Paul Gordan

1837 - 1912

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Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a Jewish-German mathematician, a student of Carl Jacobi at the University of Königsberg before obtaining his PhD at the University of Breslau (1862), and a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), and died in Erlangen, Germany. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gordan has received more than 82,975 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gordan is the 647th most popular mathematician (down from 631st in 2019), the 854th most popular biography from Poland (down from 803rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Gordan ranks 647 out of 823. Before him are Paul Bernays, Paul du Bois-Reymond, John Tate, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Guido Castelnuovo, and Friedrich Waismann. After him are Edward Routh, David Gregory, Mikio Sato, Eliyahu Rips, Jordanus de Nemore, and Efim Zelmanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Paul Gordan ranks 83. Before him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Władysław Żeleński, Artur Grottger, Theodore Gill, Georg von Kopp, and Francis Marrash. After him are Wilhelm Kühne, Thomas Moran, Anna Filosofova, Joseph Schröter, William Dean Howells, and Petre P. Carp. Among people deceased in 1912, Paul Gordan ranks 92. Before him are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, William Wilson, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Felix Dahn, Edward Wilson, and Patricio Escobar. After him are Ahmet Mithat, Ferdinand Zirkel, Pencho Slaveykov, Anna Filosofova, Edgar Evans, and Spiru Haret.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 854 out of 1,454. Before him are Ulli Lommel (1944), Marek Belka (1952), Chava Alberstein (1946), Marek Hłasko (1934), Janusz Kamiński (1959), and Wojciech Bogusławski (1757). After him are Jacob Talmon (1916), Józef Szmidt (1935), O. E. Hasse (1903), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Mascha Kaléko (1907), and Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 30. Before him are Martin Kutta (1867), Karol Borsuk (1905), Moritz Pasch (1843), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Jan Śniadecki (1756), and Heinz Hopf (1894). After him are Otto Toeplitz (1881), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Leo Königsberger (1837), Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888), Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882), and Erich Hecke (1887).

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