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Bernt Michael Holmboe

1795 - 1850

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Bernt Michael Holmboe (23 March 1795 – 28 March 1850) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was home-tutored from an early age, and was not enrolled in school until 1810. Following a short period at the Royal Frederick University, which included a stint as assistant to Christopher Hansteen, Holmboe was hired as a mathematics teacher at the Christiania Cathedral School in 1818, where he met the future renowned mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Holmboe's lasting impact on mathematics worldwide has been said to be his tutoring of Abel, both in school and privately. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernt Michael Holmboe is the 591st most popular mathematician (up from 681st in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Norway (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 591 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Plato Tiburtinus, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Lipót Fejér, Johann Radon, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq. After him are Chen Jingrun, Henry Dudeney, Otto E. Neugebauer, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Giacomo F. Maraldi, and Jai Singh II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 45. Before him are Ghazi Muhammad, James Braid, Joseph Böhm, Peter Jan Beckx, Arthur Morin, and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou. After him are Charles Barry, Thomas Arnold, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, José Gregorio Monagas, Adolf Bernhard Marx, and Luis José de Orbegoso. Among people deceased in 1850, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 43. Before him are Margaret Fuller, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Václav Tomášek, Lodewijk van Heiden, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner. After him are Bashir Shihab II, Charles Rivière-Hérard, Garlieb Merkel, Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg, Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, and Vicente López Portaña.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 228 out of 1,039. Before him are Alf Prøysen (1914), Harriet Bosse (1878), Niels Juel (1629), Sissel Kyrkjebø (1969), Helmer Hanssen (1870), and Toralf Engan (1936). After him are Georg Ossian Sars (1837), Kristen Nygaard (1926), Nina Grieg (1845), Nora Brockstedt (1923), Harald Grønningen (1934), and Alf Andersen (1906).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Bernt Michael Holmboe ranks 8. Before him are Sophus Lie (1842), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), Atle Selberg (1917), Viggo Brun (1885), Caspar Wessel (1745), and Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836). After him are Thoralf Skolem (1887), Carl Størmer (1874), Axel Thue (1863), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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