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Paul Gordan

1837 - 1912

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Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a German mathematician known for work in invariant theory and for the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Gordan's lemma. He was called "the king of invariant theory". His most famous result is that the ring of invariants of binary forms of fixed degree is finitely generated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gordan has received more than 91,676 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Paul Gordan is the 638th most popular mathematician (up from 644th in 2019), the 868th most popular biography from Poland (down from 854th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Gordan ranks 638 out of 1,004. Before him are Ingrid Daubechies, Hilda Geiringer, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Mark Krein, and Paul Neményi. After him are Harold Hotelling, Georg Stiernhielm, Vera T. Sós, Claude Chevalley, Ludwig Bieberbach, and David Gregory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Paul Gordan ranks 84. Before him are Tigran Chukhajian, Mary Harris Jones, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Wilhelm Lexis, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, and Alphonse Legros. After him are Artur Grottger, Ralph Copeland, Thomas Moran, Princess Leopoldine of Baden, Jacob Maris, and Anna Filosofova. Among people deceased in 1912, Paul Gordan ranks 92. Before him are Jaroslav Vrchlický, Francis Davis Millet, Joachim III of Constantinople, James Allen, Antonio Pacinotti, and Toyohara Chikanobu. After him are Cesare Arzelà, Siri von Essen, Arthur MacArthur Jr., José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, Marc-Émile Ruchet, and Lawrence Oates.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 868 out of 1,694. Before him are Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Jurek Becker (1937), Henryk Sławik (1894), Ignacy Potocki (1750), Martin Rathke (1793), and Stanislaus Papczyński (1631). After him are Walter Thiel (1910), Janusz Gortat (1948), Klaus Hänsch (1938), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), and Ewa Demarczyk (1941).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 30. Before him are Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Moritz Pasch (1843), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Karol Borsuk (1905), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), and Jan Śniadecki (1756). After him are Otto Toeplitz (1881), Heinz Hopf (1894), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Leo Königsberger (1837), Franz Mertens (1840), and Erich Hecke (1887).

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