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Wilhelm Ackermann

1896 - 1962

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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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Germany

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).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

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).

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