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Viggo Brun

1885 - 1978

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Viggo Brun (13 October 1885 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian professor, mathematician and number theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viggo Brun has received more than 30,954 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Viggo Brun is the 416th most popular mathematician (down from 350th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Norway (down from 137th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Viggo Brun ranks 416 out of 823. Before him are Richard E. Bellman, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Heisuke Hironaka, Ernest William Brown, Diocles, and Luigi Cremona. After him are Adriaan van Roomen, John Vitéz, Karl Mollweide, Lars Hörmander, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, and Goro Shimura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Viggo Brun ranks 106. Before him are Noman Çelebicihan, Josef Frank, Muslim Magomayev, Anton Flettner, St John Philby, and Henri Laurens. After him are Sophie, Princess of Albania, Alexander Shliapnikov, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Leó Weiner, Jan Czochralski, and Wallace Beery. Among people deceased in 1978, Viggo Brun ranks 98. Before him are Gunnar Nilsson, Lucius D. Clay, Armin T. Wegner, Gig Young, Jacques Brugnon, and Hans Stuck. After him are Diana Budisavljević, Luigi Allemandi, Harold Abrahams, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Roy Harrod, and Henryk Zygalski.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Viggo Brun ranks 152 out of 927. Before him are Caspar Wessel (1745), Hans Gude (1825), Petter Dass (1647), Hans Aanrud (1863), Peter Tordenskjold (1690), and Jon Fosse (1959). After him are Thorbjørn Jagland (1950), Trygve Bratteli (1910), Jacob Tullin Thams (1898), Nils Christie (1928), Camilla Collett (1813), and Euronymous (1968).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Viggo Brun ranks 7. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Sophus Lie (1842), Atle Selberg (1917), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), and Caspar Wessel (1745). After him are Thoralf Skolem (1887), Axel Thue (1863), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Carl Størmer (1874), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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