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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 47,313 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Fincke is the 412th most popular mathematician (down from 343rd in 2019), the 2,766th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,352nd in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Fincke ranks 412 out of 1,004. Before him are Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Mary Cartwright, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, and Carl Ludwig Siegel. After him are László Lovász, Abraham Robinson, Henryk Zygalski, Georgy Voronoy, Albert W. Tucker, and Al-Sijzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Thomas Fincke ranks 10. Before him are Santorio Santorio, Katō Kiyomasa, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Henry Briggs, Ii Naomasa, and Fukushima Masanori. After him are Adriaan van Roomen, Philippe van Lansberge, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Basilius Besler, and Mary Sidney. Among people deceased in 1656, Thomas Fincke ranks 11. Before him are John George I, Elector of Saxony, Ottavio Piccolomini, Francisco Herrera the Elder, Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Andrea Falconieri, and Dirck Hals. After him are Laurent de La Hyre, Massimo Stanzione, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Carlo Contarini, Francesco Cornaro, and Roberto de Nobili.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Fincke ranks 2,766 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Pauly (1907), Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1887), Karl Koch (1809), Justinus Kerner (1786), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), and Johann Andreas Stein (1728). After him are Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), Tom Tykwer (1965), Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462), and Elisa Radziwiłł (1803).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Thomas Fincke ranks 49. Before him are Felix Bernstein (1878), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), and Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896). After him are Henryk Zygalski (1908), Helmut Hasse (1898), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), Ernst Schröder (1841), and Hermann Hankel (1839).

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