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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

1651 - 1708

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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus or Tschirnhauß (German: [ˈeːʁənfʁiːt ˈvaltɐ fɔn ˈtʃɪʁnhaʊs]; 10 April 1651 – 11 October 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger but others claim porcelain had been made by English manufacturers at an even earlier date. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is the 181st most popular mathematician (down from 176th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Poland (up from 238th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is most famous for his work on the theory of electricity. He was the first to realize that electricity was a form of energy, and he was the first to use the word "electricity" in its modern sense.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 181 out of 1,004. Before him are Mary Jackson, John Pell, Felix Hausdorff, Giambattista della Porta, Zoia Ceaușescu, and Edward Norton Lorenz. After him are Étienne Bézout, Simplicius of Cilicia, Édouard Lucas, Alonzo Church, Jean Gaston Darboux, and Jakob Steiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 6. Before him are Margaret Theresa of Spain, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, François Fénelon, William Dampier, and Natalya Naryshkina. After him are Engelbert Kaempfer, Madame d'Aulnoy, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, and Louis Antoine de Noailles. Among people deceased in 1708, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 6. Before him are Guru Gobind Singh, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, and Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons. After him are Prince George of Denmark, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Seki Takakazu, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, and Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 211 out of 1,694. Before him are Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Hermann Balck (1893), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), and Hans Lammers (1879). After him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Otto Kretschmer (1912), and Karl Denke (1860).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus ranks 7. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), and Felix Hausdorff (1868). After him are Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), Hermann Grassmann (1809), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).

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