MATHEMATICIAN

Paul du Bois-Reymond

1831 - 1889

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Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond (2 December 1831 – 7 April 1889) was a German mathematician who was born in Berlin and died in Freiburg. He was the brother of Emil du Bois-Reymond. His thesis was concerned with the mechanical equilibrium of fluids. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul du Bois-Reymond has received more than 47,290 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul du Bois-Reymond is the 724th most popular mathematician (down from 639th in 2019), the 4,482nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,881st in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul du Bois-Reymond ranks 724 out of 1,004Before her are David Cox, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, William Hopkins, Eliyahu Rips, Yuri Matiyasevich, and Maxim Kontsevich. After her are Charles Hutton, Alicia Boole Stott, Axel Thue, Wilhelm Killing, William Kahan, and Oswald Teichmüller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Paul du Bois-Reymond ranks 86Before her are Ludvig Norman, Frederick Townsend Ward, Wilhelm His Sr., Salomon Jadassohn, Ippolito Nievo, and Archibald Scott Couper. After her are Fran Levstik, Amelia Edwards, Fyodor Bredikhin, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, and Álvares de Azevedo. Among people deceased in 1889, Paul du Bois-Reymond ranks 72Before her are August Ahlqvist, José Joaquín Pérez, Michele Amari, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Juan Montalvo, and Julia Gardiner Tyler. After her are Warren De la Rue, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Dmitry Tolstoy, Lucy Webb Hayes, Francisco Antonino Vidal, and Priscilla Cooper Tyler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul du Bois-Reymond ranks 4,482 out of 7,253Before her are Martin Gropius (1824), Alexander Zverev (1997), Hermann von Stein (1854), Sven Ulreich (1988), Gerhard Ritter (1888), and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815). After her are Ümit Davala (1973), Herbert Runge (1913), Sven Väth (1964), Curt Backeberg (1894), Peter-Michael Kolbe (1953), and Ulrike Meyfarth (1956).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Paul du Bois-Reymond ranks 82Before her are Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Fritz Noether (1884), Johann Schreck (1576), and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798). After her are Wilhelm Killing (1847), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Leonard Nelson (1882), Erich Kähler (1906), Jordanus de Nemore (null), and Johann Faulhaber (1580).