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Wilhelm Jordan

1842 - 1899

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Wilhelm Jordan (1 March 1842, Ellwangen, Württemberg – 17 April 1899, Hanover) was a German geodesist who conducted surveys in Germany and Africa and founded the German geodesy journal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Jordan has received more than 6,456 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wilhelm Jordan is the 598th most popular mathematician (down from 504th in 2019), the 3,892nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,264th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 598 out of 1,004. Before him are Edward Routh, Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, David Ruelle, Haskell Curry, and Arend Heyting. After him are Diederik Korteweg, Louis J. Mordell, Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, Michael Freedman, and Harish-Chandra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 71. Before him are Heinrich Martin Weber, François Hennebique, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Antero de Quental, and Infante João, Duke of Beja. After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Ernest Lavisse, Pyotr Durnovo, Ferdinand Keller, and Berthold Delbrück. Among people deceased in 1899, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 53. Before him are Juliusz Kossak, Adile Sultan, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Ulises Heureaux, Gaston Tissandier, and James Paget. After him are Jovan Ristić, Max Lange, Emil Welti, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Lascăr Catargiu, and Constant Fornerod.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 3,892 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Klemperer (1920), Robert Spaemann (1927), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), and Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839). After him are Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Hermann Usener (1834), Alice Weidel (1979), Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819), Christian Rohlfs (1849), and Emil Warburg (1846).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 72. Before him are Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Max August Zorn (1906), Max Dehn (1878), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), and Emil Julius Gumbel (1891). After him are Grete Hermann (1901), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), and Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773).

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