MATHEMATICIAN

Wilhelm Wirtinger

1865 - 1945

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Wilhelm Wirtinger (19 July 1865 – 16 January 1945) was an Austrian mathematician, working in complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups, and knot theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Wirtinger has received more than 34,428 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Wirtinger is the 915th most popular mathematician, the 1,052nd most popular biography from Austria and the 17th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wilhelm Wirtinger ranks 915 out of 1,004Before him are Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Herman Chernoff, George Szekeres, Andrei Okounkov, and Joseph Wedderburn. After him are Ken Ribet, Satish Dhawan, Jacob Bronowski, Martin David Kruskal, J. H. C. Whitehead, and Elwyn Berlekamp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Wilhelm Wirtinger ranks 159Before him are Walter Frederick Gale, Charles Stanton Ogle, Janez Evangelist Krek, Charles Sands, Pavel Shternberg, and Mrs Patrick Campbell. After him are Gifford Pinchot, and Susan La Flesche Picotte. Among people deceased in 1945, Wilhelm Wirtinger ranks 350Before him are Takashi Yokoyama, Søren Petersen, Charles Sands, Frank Chapman, N. C. Wyeth, and Sigurður Eggerz. After him are Robert Benchley, Nikolai Khmelyov, Ellen Glasgow, Sara Josephine Baker, Eoin MacNeill, and Albert Arnheiter.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Wilhelm Wirtinger ranks 1,052 out of 1,424Before him are Werner Kogler (1961), Julius Lenhart (1875), Vanessa Brown (1928), Walther Penck (1888), Jaroslav Volak (1915), and Andreas Ivanschitz (1983). After him are Josef Krejci (1911), Gerhard Rodax (1965), Hubert von Goisern (1952), Otto Leodolter (1936), Andreas Goldberger (1972), and Reinhold Bachler (1944).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Wilhelm Wirtinger ranks 17Before him are Friedrich Waismann (1896), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Helena Rasiowa (1917), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), Leopold Vietoris (1891), and Walter Rudin (1921).