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MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Brauer

1901 - 1977

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Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Brauer has received more than 102,937 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard Brauer is the 776th most popular mathematician (up from 778th in 2019), the 4,486th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,226th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Brauer ranks 776 out of 823Before him are Raoul Bott, Georges de Rham, Joseph Wedderburn, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francesco Severi, and Shinichi Mochizuki. After him are Wu Wenjun, Cédric Villani, Joseph Keller, Armand Borel, Giuseppe Veronese, and Richard Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Richard Brauer ranks 274Before him are Henry Eyring, Tibor Serly, Sven Utterström, Marieluise Fleißer, Felipe Molas López, and Paul Fritsch. After him are C. L. R. James, Alexis Chantraine, Luis Brunetto, Katri Vala, Frank Buckles, and Ben Lyon. Among people deceased in 1977, Richard Brauer ranks 201Before him are Helen Ferguson, Ernest Leonard Johnson, Hans Pulver, Alan Reed, Andy Devine, and Philibert Smellinckx. After him are Américo Tesoriere, Rudolf Cvetko, Karl Kreutzberg, José Naya, Miguel Mihura, and Birger Rosengren.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Brauer ranks 4,486 out of 6,142Before him are Erich Beer (1946), Emil Rausch (1883), Josef Peters (1914), Grethe Weiser (1903), Sarah Connor (1980), and Klaus Wolfermann (1946). After him are Thomas Köhler (1940), Markus Babbel (1972), Saul Rubinek (1948), Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (1971), Walther Schreiber (1884), and Ria Baran (1922).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Richard Brauer ranks 86Before him are Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Friedrich Engel (1861), Wendelin Werner (1968), Leonard Nelson (1882), Erich Kähler (1906), and Wilhelm Killing (1847). After him are Hans Rademacher (1892), Oskar Perron (1880), Richard Rado (1906), Heinz Prüfer (1896), Volker Strassen (1936), and Christoph Gudermann (1798).