1847 - 1923
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, Wilhelm Killing ranks 756 out of 823. Before 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.
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 750
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 751
1906 - 2000
HPI: 44.90
Rank: 752
1887 - 1947
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 753
1891 - 1970
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 754
1905 - 2012
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 755
1847 - 1923
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 756
1931 - 2020
HPI: 44.81
Rank: 757
1863 - 1924
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 758
1923 - Present
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 759
1964 - Present
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 760
1910 - 1999
HPI: 44.71
Rank: 761
1832 - 1916
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 762
Among people born in 1847, Wilhelm Killing ranks 86. Before 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 95. Before 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.
1847 - 1912
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 80
1847 - 1922
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 81
1847 - 1884
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 82
1847 - 1921
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 83
1847 - 1921
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 84
1847 - 1914
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 85
1847 - 1923
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 86
1847 - 1915
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 87
1847 - 1878
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 88
1847 - 1901
HPI: 44.13
Rank: 89
1847 - 1925
HPI: 43.81
Rank: 90
1847 - 1917
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 91
1847 - 1933
HPI: 42.76
Rank: 92
1891 - 1923
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 89
1843 - 1923
HPI: 45.35
Rank: 90
1849 - 1923
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 91
1850 - 1923
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 92
1851 - 1923
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 93
1868 - 1923
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 94
1847 - 1923
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 95
1871 - 1923
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 96
1886 - 1923
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 97
1856 - 1923
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 98
1837 - 1923
HPI: 44.05
Rank: 99
1852 - 1923
HPI: 43.69
Rank: 100
1848 - 1923
HPI: 43.14
Rank: 101
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 4,388 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1911 - 1966
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 4,382
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 4,383
1908 - 1994
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 4,384
1963 - Present
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 4,385
1963 - Present
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 4,386
1952 - Present
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 4,387
1847 - 1923
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 4,388
1899 - 1950
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 4,389
1855 - 1920
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 4,390
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.81
Rank: 4,391
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 4,392
1816 - 1853
HPI: 44.77
Rank: 4,393
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.77
Rank: 4,394
Among mathematicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Killing ranks 85. Before 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).
1884 - 1941
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 79
1854 - 1925
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 80
1861 - 1941
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 81
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 82
1882 - 1927
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 83
1906 - 2000
HPI: 44.90
Rank: 84
1847 - 1923
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 85
1901 - 1977
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 86
1892 - 1969
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 87
1880 - 1975
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 88
1906 - 1989
HPI: 42.93
Rank: 89
1896 - 1934
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 90
1936 - Present
HPI: 42.46
Rank: 91