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Thomas Abbt

1738 - 1766

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Thomas Abbt (German: [apt]; 25 November 1738 – 3 November 1766) was a German mathematician and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Abbt has received more than 57,561 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Abbt is the 222nd most popular mathematician (up from 226th in 2019), the 1,352nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,435th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Abbt ranks 222 out of 1,004. Before him are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Callippus, Michel Chasles, Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, and Henry Briggs. After him are Anatoly Fomenko, Maria Reiche, Israel Gelfand, Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, and S. R. Ranganathan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, Thomas Abbt ranks 10. Before him are Cesare Beccaria, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Túpac Amaru II, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, and Ethan Allen. After him are Arthur Phillip, Jacques François Dugommier, Aleijadinho, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Johann Hermann, and Benjamin West. Among people deceased in 1766, Thomas Abbt ranks 9. Before him are Elisabeth Farnese, James Francis Edward Stuart, Jean-Marc Nattier, Johann Maria Farina, Giuseppe Castiglione, and Leopold Joseph von Daun. After him are Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie Victoire de Noailles, François-Jean de la Barre, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Jean Astruc, and Dominikus Zimmermann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Abbt ranks 1,352 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Staden (1525), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890), Wilhelm Busch (1832), and Hugo Schmeisser (1884). After him are Heinz Linge (1913), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Ernst Chladni (1756), Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), and Otto Rasch (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Thomas Abbt ranks 26. Before him are Andrew Wiles (1953), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), and Constantin Carathéodory (1873). After him are Maria Reiche (1903), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Adolf Hurwitz (1859).

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