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Thomas Fincke

1561 - 1656

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Thomas Fincke (6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Fincke has received more than 44,645 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Thomas Fincke is the 343rd most popular mathematician (up from 421st in 2019), the 2,354th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,627th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Fincke ranks 343 out of 823. Before him are Felix Bernstein, Jesse Douglas, Pietro Cataldi, Richard Hamming, Paul Lévy, and William Sealy Gosset. After him are Stephen Smale, Edward Kasner, Karl Menger, Eutocius of Ascalon, Ostilio Ricci, and Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Thomas Fincke ranks 10. Before him are Santorio Santorio, Katō Kiyomasa, Henry Briggs, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Ii Naomasa, and John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen. After him are Adriaan van Roomen, Mary Sidney, and Philippe van Lansberge. Among people deceased in 1656, Thomas Fincke ranks 9. Before him are Jan van Goyen, John George I, Elector of Saxony, James Ussher, Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Francisco Herrera the Elder, and Ottavio Piccolomini. After him are Andrea Falconieri, Dirck Hals, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Carlo Contarini, Roberto de Nobili, and Georg Calixtus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Fincke ranks 2,354 out of 6,142. Before him are Günther Lützow (1912), Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495), Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1893), Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), and Gregor Gysi (1948). After him are Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1676), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Honoratus (365), Wieland Wagner (1917), and Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Thomas Fincke ranks 40. Before him are Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Edmund Landau (1877), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), and Felix Bernstein (1878). After him are Michael Maestlin (1550), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), and Helmut Hasse (1898).

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