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Wilhelm Killing

1847 - 1923

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Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing (10 May 1847 – 11 February 1923) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Killing has received more than 95,896 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilhelm Killing is the 728th most popular mathematician (up from 753rd in 2019), the 4,508th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,374th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Killing ranks 728 out of 1,004. Before him are Yuri Matiyasevich, Maxim Kontsevich, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Charles Hutton, Alicia Boole Stott, and Axel Thue. After him are William Kahan, Oswald Teichmüller, Stanisław Zaremba, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Antanas Mockus, and Leonard Nelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Wilhelm Killing ranks 83. Before him are Ida Saxton McKinley, Cesare Arzelà, Castro Alves, Hermann Osthoff, Louis Henri Boussenard, and Eliška Krásnohorská. After him are Emil Holub, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Eduardo López de Romaña, Giacomo Bresadola, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, and František Křižík. Among people deceased in 1923, Wilhelm Killing ranks 88. Before him are Ōsugi Sakae, Tommaso Salvadori, Ernst Hartwig, Vatslav Vorovsky, Georg von Rosen, and Michel de Klerk. After him are Tomás Bretón, Stefanos Dragoumis, Hans Goldschmidt, Eugen Huber, Tage Reedtz-Thott, and Jan Kotěra.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 4,508 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Harbig (1913), Richard Röstel (1872), Wolfgang Nordwig (1943), Uwe Barschel (1944), Raimond Aumann (1963), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1829). After him are Maxi Herber (1920), Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania (1580), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Briana Banks (1978), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), and Hermann Josef Abs (1901).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 83. Before him are Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Fritz Noether (1884), Johann Schreck (1576), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), and Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831). After him are Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Leonard Nelson (1882), Erich Kähler (1906), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Johann Faulhaber (1580), and Wendelin Werner (1968).

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