1896 - 1962
Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann (; German: [ˈakɐˌman]; 29 March 1896 – 24 December 1962) was a German mathematician and logician best known for his work in mathematical logic and the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Ackermann has received more than 123,439 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Ackermann is the 305th most popular mathematician (down from 267th in 2019), the 2,088th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,724th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Ackermann ranks 305 out of 823. Before him are Aristyllus, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Pierre Deligne, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Theon of Smyrna, and Enrico Bombieri. After him are John Edensor Littlewood, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Georg Alexander Pick, Paul Cohen, Giambattista Benedetti, and Lev Pontryagin.
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 299
1853 - 1925
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 300
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 301
1930 - 2016
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 302
70 - 135
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 303
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 304
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 305
1885 - 1977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 306
850 - 930
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 307
1859 - 1942
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 308
1934 - 2007
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 309
1530 - 1590
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 310
1908 - 1988
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 311
Among people born in 1896, Wilhelm Ackermann ranks 92. Before him are Faina Ranevskaya, Otto Hofmann, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Hans Cramer, Aspasia Manos, and Jorge Alessandri. After him are Mir Jafar Baghirov, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, D. R. Bendre, Besse Cooper, Rudolf Schmundt, and Ira Gershwin. Among people deceased in 1962, Wilhelm Ackermann ranks 66. Before him are Tod Browning, Ricardo Rodríguez, Trygve Gulbranssen, Kirsten Flagstad, Vita Sackville-West, and Antoine Pevsner. After him are Albert Sarraut, Michel de Ghelderode, Hans von Salmuth, Louis Massignon, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Erich von Tschermak.
1896 - 1984
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 86
1896 - 1982
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 87
1896 - 1971
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 88
1896 - 1968
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 89
1896 - 1972
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 90
1896 - 1986
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 91
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 92
1896 - 1956
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 93
1896 - 1958
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 94
1896 - 1981
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 95
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 96
1896 - 1944
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 97
1896 - 1983
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 98
1880 - 1962
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 60
1942 - 1962
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 61
1894 - 1962
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 62
1895 - 1962
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 63
1892 - 1962
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 64
1884 - 1962
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 65
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 66
1872 - 1962
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 67
1898 - 1962
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 68
1888 - 1962
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 69
1883 - 1962
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 70
1888 - 1962
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 71
1871 - 1962
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 72
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Ackermann ranks 2,088 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Clemens Winkler (1838), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Philipp Veit (1793), and Konrad von Thüringen (1206). After him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach (1703), Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Christian the Younger of Brunswick (1599), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), and Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878).
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,082
1110 - 1159
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,083
1838 - 1904
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,084
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,085
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,086
1206 - 1240
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,087
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,088
1703 - 1732
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,089
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 2,090
1886 - 1957
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 2,091
1599 - 1626
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 2,092
1881 - 1971
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 2,093
1878 - 1912
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 2,094
Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Ackermann ranks 35. Before him are Andreas Osiander (1498), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Julius Plücker (1801), Nicholas Mercator (1620), and Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856). After him are Edmund Landau (1877), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Felix Bernstein (1878), Thomas Fincke (1561), and Michael Maestlin (1550).
1498 - 1552
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 29
1823 - 1852
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 30
1859 - 1919
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 31
1801 - 1868
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 32
1620 - 1687
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 33
1856 - 1927
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 34
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 35
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 36
1821 - 1896
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 37
1909 - 1945
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 38
1878 - 1956
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 39
1561 - 1656
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 40
1550 - 1631
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 41