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Carl David Tolmé Runge

1856 - 1927

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Carl David Tolmé Runge (German: [ˈʁʊŋə]; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: [ˈʀʊŋə ˈkʊta]), in the field of what is today known as numerical analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl David Tolmé Runge is the 169th most popular mathematician (up from 269th in 2019), the 932nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,797th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 169 out of 1,004. Before him are Sophus Lie, Vito Volterra, Jost Bürgi, James Joseph Sylvester, Menelaus of Alexandria, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Joseph Bertrand, Johannes Trithemius, Wang Chong, Jean-Pierre Serre, Vladimir Arnold, and Mary Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 30. Before him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Andrey Markov, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, H. Rider Haggard, and John Singer Sargent. After him are Jean Moréas, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Mikhail Vrubel, Pedro Lascuráin, Sergei Taneyev, and Wilhelm von Gloeden. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 17. Before him are Hugo Ball, Andranik, Jerome K. Jerome, Georg Brandes, Kang Youwei, and Paul Sérusier. After him are Michael Ancher, Yusef of Morocco, Armand Guillaumin, Giuseppe Moscati, Edward B. Titchener, and Wilhelm Johannsen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 932 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), Jochen Mass (1946), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), Andreas Brehme (1960), Stefan George (1868), and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607). After him are Arthur Auwers (1838), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Frei Otto (1925), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), and Edith Frank (1900).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl David Tolmé Runge ranks 21. Before him are Felix Klein (1849), Christopher Clavius (1538), Andrew Wiles (1953), Hermann Weyl (1885), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), and Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852). After him are Johannes Trithemius (1462), Ernst Schröder (1841), Maria Reiche (1903), Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), and Ernst Zermelo (1871).

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