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Carl Ludwig Siegel

1896 - 1981

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Carl Ludwig Siegel (31 December 1896 – 4 April 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation, Siegel's method, Siegel's lemma and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He has been named one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. André Weil, without hesitation, named Siegel as the greatest mathematician of the first half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Ludwig Siegel is the 392nd most popular mathematician (up from 411th in 2019), the 2,433rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,764th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 392 out of 1,004. Before him are Ostilio Ricci, Lothar Collatz, Igor Shafarevich, Richard Courant, Rudolf Lipschitz, and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. After him are William George Horner, Helmut Hasse, Qin Jiushao, Theon of Smyrna, Thomas Fincke, and Philippe de La Hire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 99. Before him are Zygmunt Berling, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Carl Zuckmayer, Faina Ranevskaya, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, and Pierre Jeanneret. After him are Boris Podolsky, William A. Wellman, Stanisława Leszczyńska, Henry Allingham, Besse Cooper, and Ludwik Fleck. Among people deceased in 1981, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 78. Before him are Henry Eyring, Gunichi Mikawa, Bernard Lee, Albert Cohen, Ferruccio Parri, and Natalia Pavlovna Paley. After him are Jean Eustache, Savitri, Jerzy Neyman, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Yakov Pavlov, and Prince Yasuhiko Asaka.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 2,434 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662), Fred Uhlman (1901), Honoratus (365), Ernst Chladni (1756), and August Batsch (1761). After him are Sebastian Haffner (1907), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Walter Eucken (1891), William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), and Herbert Hainer (1954).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Siegel ranks 44. Before him are Julius Plücker (1801), Felix Bernstein (1878), Andreas Osiander (1498), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Michael Maestlin (1550), and Lothar Collatz (1910). After him are Helmut Hasse (1898), Thomas Fincke (1561), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), and Gerhard Gentzen (1909).

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