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Alfred Clebsch

1833 - 1872

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Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Clebsch is the 439th most popular mathematician (down from 425th in 2019), the 883rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 990th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred Clebsch ranks 439 out of 1,004. Before him are Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Heisuke Hironaka, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Johannes Werner, Jacques Ozanam, and Nina Bari. After him are Benedetto Castelli, Thomas Henderson, Igor Ansoff, Frigyes Riesz, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Johann II Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Alfred Clebsch ranks 32. Before him are Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Prince Gong, Carlos Finlay, Eliza Lynch, Peter Waage, and Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium. After him are Manuel González Flores, Félix Bracquemond, Lazarus Fuchs, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Benedykt Dybowski, and Theodor Meynert. Among people deceased in 1872, Alfred Clebsch ranks 32. Before him are Handrij Zejler, Zeng Guofan, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, John Bowring, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. After him are Andrew Smith, Petar Preradović, Friedrich Welwitsch, Avram Iancu, Horace Greeley, and Jacques Babinet.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alfred Clebsch ranks 883 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Vasily Livanov (1935), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Marfa Sobakina (1552), and Nina Bari (1901). After him are Marat Safin (1980), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Igor Ansoff (1918), Léonide Massine (1896), and Yerofey Khabarov (1603).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alfred Clebsch ranks 25. Before him are Lev Pontryagin (1908), Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), and Nina Bari (1901). After him are Igor Ansoff (1918), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Nikolai Luzin (1883), Kurt Hensel (1861), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), and Aleksandr Khinchin (1894).

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