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Elwin Bruno Christoffel

1829 - 1900

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Elwin Bruno Christoffel (German: [kʁɪˈstɔfl̩]; 10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elwin Bruno Christoffel is the 426th most popular mathematician (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,646th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,536th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Elwin Bruno Christoffel ranks 426 out of 1,004. Before him are Mitchell Feigenbaum, Guido Fubini, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ignazio Danti, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, and Maryam Mirzakhani. After him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Yuri Manin, Gerhard Gentzen, William Thurston, Al-Mahani, and Diocles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Elwin Bruno Christoffel ranks 28. Before him are Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Tự Đức, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Ivan Sechenov, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, and Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail. After him are Maurice Joly, Robert Nobel, Franz Reuleaux, Ignacio Zaragoza, Moritz Cantor, and Jean-Jacques Henner. Among people deceased in 1900, Elwin Bruno Christoffel ranks 44. Before him are Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Peter Waage, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Arthur Sullivan, and Hermann Levi. After him are Carl Lange, Wilhelm Leibl, Gustav Hartlaub, David Edward Hughes, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elwin Bruno Christoffel ranks 2,647 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Robert Heinrich Wagner (1895), Adolf Ziegler (1892), Rudi Altig (1937), and Friedrich Krupp (1787). After him are Johann Liss (1597), Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854), and Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Elwin Bruno Christoffel ranks 49. Before him are Lothar Collatz (1910), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Helmut Hasse (1898), Thomas Fincke (1561), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821). After him are Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), Gerd Faltings (1954), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), and August Leopold Crelle (1780).

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