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Regiomontanus

1436 - 1476

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Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death. Regiomontanus wrote under the Latinized name of Ioannes de Monteregio (or Monte Regio; Regio Monte); the toponym Regiomontanus was first used by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Regiomontanus has received more than 237,046 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Regiomontanus is the 81st most popular mathematician (down from 78th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Germany (down from 409th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Mathematician.

Regiomontanus is most famous for his work in astronomy. He was the first person to create a star catalog and map of the sky.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Regiomontanus ranks 81 out of 1,004. Before him are Alfred North Whitehead, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Benoit Mandelbrot, Augustus De Morgan, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Jacob Bernoulli. After him are Pappus of Alexandria, Stefan Banach, Felix Klein, Ctesibius, Alexander Friedmann, and Stanislaw Ulam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1436, Regiomontanus ranks 1. After him are Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Leonardo Loredan, Francesco del Cossa, Tizoc, Louis of Cyprus, and Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset. Among people deceased in 1476, Regiomontanus ranks 3. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, and Simonetta Vespucci. After him are Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Frederick I, Elector Palatine, Stefan Branković, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, George VIII of Georgia, and Pietro Mocenigo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Regiomontanus ranks 424 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Klopp (1967), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Richard Willstätter (1872), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795). After him are Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Ernst Abbe (1840), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), Max Bruch (1838), Hans Fischer (1881), and Georg von Küchler (1881).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Regiomontanus ranks 13. Before him are Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928). After him are Felix Klein (1849), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Christopher Clavius (1538), Hermann Weyl (1885), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), and Hermann of Reichenau (1013).

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