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Christoph Gudermann

1798 - 1852

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Christoph Gudermann (25 March 1798 – 25 September 1852) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence, and for being the teacher of Karl Weierstrass, who was greatly influenced by Gudermann's course on elliptic functions in 1839–1840, the first such course to be taught in any institute. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christoph Gudermann is the 775th most popular mathematician (up from 813th in 2019), the 4,729th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,962nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Christoph Gudermann ranks 775 out of 1,004Before him are John Lennox, Paul Montel, Hans Lewy, Francesco Brioschi, Sergey Mergelyan, and Spiru Haret. After him are Jacques-Louis Lions, Grace Chisholm Young, Leo Königsberger, Kenkichi Iwasawa, E. T. Whittaker, and Nikolai Chebotaryov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Christoph Gudermann ranks 52Before him are Karl von Holtei, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, Jacques Bernard Hombron, Alexander Brullov, Ditlev Blunck, and Alessandro Antonelli. After him are Melchior von Diepenbrock, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Andrea Maffei, Jacques Jasmin, Gustav Rose, and José Hilario López. Among people deceased in 1852, Christoph Gudermann ranks 59Before him are Pavel Fedotov, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, José Ballivián, Jacques Bernard Hombron, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, and František Čelakovský. After him are Francisco Javier Echeverría, Álvares de Azevedo, Rose Philippine Duchesne, Frances Wright, Walter Forward, and John George Children.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christoph Gudermann ranks 4,732 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1735), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), Wilhelm Müller (1909), Hermann Harms (1870), Birgit Prinz (1977), and Gerd Wessig (1959). After him are Klaus Köste (1943), Ludwig von Falkenhausen (1844), Klaus Badelt (1967), Peter Brötzmann (1941), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), and Jürgen Heinsch (1940).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Christoph Gudermann ranks 88Before him are Heinz Prüfer (1896), Fritz Noether (1884), Wilhelm Killing (1847), Leonard Nelson (1882), Carl Hindenburg (1741), and Johann Faulhaber (1580). After him are Wendelin Werner (1968), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Hans Rademacher (1892), Friedrich Engel (1861), and Oskar Perron (1880).