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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 6,184 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Jordan is the 506th most popular mathematician (up from 560th in 2019), the 3,267th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,260th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 506 out of 823. Before him are W. V. D. Hodge, William Kingdon Clifford, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Julius Petersen, Roy Kerr, and Heinrich Martin Weber. After him are Haskell Curry, Lazarus Fuchs, Samuel Eilenberg, Issai Schur, Henry Dudeney, and Dénes Kőnig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 61. Before him are Maurice Rouvier, Eloy Alfaro, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Antero de Quental, Stojan Novaković, and Heinrich Martin Weber. After him are Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Ellen Swallow Richards, and Pyotr Durnovo. Among people deceased in 1899, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 40. Before him are Heinrich Kiepert, Robert G. Ingersoll, Dwight L. Moody, Teodolfo Mertel, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, and Henry Becque. After him are George Averoff, Gaston Tissandier, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Heymann Steinthal, and Ulises Heureaux.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 3,267 out of 6,142. Before him are Richard Sammel (1960), Heinrich Albert (1604), Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710), Uli Edel (1947), Emanuel Leutze (1816), and Heinrich Martin Weber (1842). After him are Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Elga Andersen (1935), Paul Kummer (1834), and Paul Lincke (1866).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Jordan ranks 60. Before him are Henryk Zygalski (1908), Lothar Collatz (1910), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Adam Ries (1492), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), and Heinrich Martin Weber (1842). After him are Martin Ohm (1792), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Gerd Faltings (1954), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Max Noether (1921), and August Leopold Crelle (1780).

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