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MATHEMATICIAN

Simon von Stampfer

1790 - 1864

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Simon Ritter von Stampfer (26 October 1792 (according to other sources 1790)), in Windisch-Mattrai, Archbishopric of Salzburg today called Matrei in Osttirol, Tyrol – 10 November 1864 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor. His most famous invention is that of the stroboscopic disk which has a claim to be the first device to show moving images. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon von Stampfer has received more than 37,452 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon von Stampfer is the 539th most popular mathematician, the 667th most popular biography from Austria and the 11th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Simon von Stampfer ranks 539 out of 823Before him are Max Noether, Sydney Chapman, Robert Axelrod, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Bhāskara I, and Boris Delaunay. After him are Pingala, Harold Hotelling, Dmitri Egorov, John Cairncross, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, and August Leopold Crelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Simon von Stampfer ranks 31Before him are Juan Álvarez, Claude Pouillet, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Ferdinand Raimund, Ferenc Kölcsey, and Jean René Constant Quoy. After him are James Pradier, Juan Lindo, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, William Smith, and William Davies Evans. Among people deceased in 1864, Simon von Stampfer ranks 47Before him are Pedro Santana, Luke Howard, Sakuma Shōzan, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Simonas Daukantas, and Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are J. E. B. Stuart, Charles Julien Brianchon, Rudolf Wagner, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Gonçalves Dias, and Gaetano Bedini.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Simon von Stampfer ranks 667 out of 1,237Before him are Ernst Grünfeld (1893), Josef Kriehuber (1800), Ceija Stojka (1933), Ernst Jandl (1925), Valie Export (1940), and Heinrich Lammasch (1853). After him are Matthias Braun (1684), Herbert Prohaska (1955), Wilhelm Kienzl (1857), Guido Starhemberg (1657), Nadja Tiller (1929), and Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Simon von Stampfer ranks 11Before him are Emil Artin (1898), Hans Hahn (1879), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Karl Menger (1902), Philipp Frank (1884), and Hermann Bondi (1919). After him are Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), Friedrich Waismann (1896), Walter Rudin (1921), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Helena Rasiowa (1917), and Leopold Vietoris (1891).