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MATHEMATICIAN

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 80,760 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wilhelm Killing is the 756th most popular mathematician (down from 702nd in 2019), the 4,388th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,886th in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Killing ranks 756 out of 823Before him are Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Gregory Chaitin, Erich Kähler, Erich Hecke, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, and Sergey Nikolsky. After him are Sergei Adian, Corrado Segre, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Maxim Kontsevich, Nathan Jacobson, and Mary Everest Boole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Wilhelm Killing ranks 86Before him are Cesare Arzelà, Vilma Hugonnai, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Lipót Schulhof, Mary Watson Whitney, and Morton Betts. After him are Solomon Schechter, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Dimitar Grekov, Wilhelmina Drucker, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Ormond Stone. Among people deceased in 1923, Wilhelm Killing ranks 95Before him are Wallace Reid, Dmitry Anuchin, Alfhild Agrell, Guerra Junqueiro, Ivan Tavčar, and Guy de la Chapelle. After him are Joe Roberts, Fidel Pagés, Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Theodor Rosetti, Charles Kent, and Bernard Bosanquet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 4,388 out of 6,142Before him are Paul Zielinski (1911), Ivan Klasnić (1980), Hans Jakob (1908), Katja Riemann (1963), Ute Lemper (1963), and Monika Zehrt (1952). After him are Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Henriette Reker (1956), Markus Rühl (1972), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), and Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 85Before him are Fritz Noether (1884), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Friedrich Engel (1861), Wendelin Werner (1968), Leonard Nelson (1882), and Erich Kähler (1906). After him are Richard Brauer (1901), Hans Rademacher (1892), Oskar Perron (1880), Richard Rado (1906), Heinz Prüfer (1896), and Volker Strassen (1936).