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Erhard Schmidt

1876 - 1959

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Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erhard Schmidt is the 452nd most popular mathematician (up from 575th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Erhard Schmidt ranks 452 out of 1,004. Before him are Yang Hui, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Hermann Bondi, Goro Shimura, Yves Meyer, and Gerd Faltings. After him are Yutaka Taniyama, Sam Loyd, William Jones, Enrico Betti, Mary Cartwright, and Vladimir Smirnov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Erhard Schmidt ranks 95. Before him are Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Lev Berg, Sibilla Aleramo, Georg Hilmar, Thomas Hicks, and Francesc Cambó. After him are Irving Baxter, Ioannis Georgiadis, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Walter Tewksbury, William Sealy Gosset, and Alexandre Tuffère. Among people deceased in 1959, Erhard Schmidt ranks 79. Before him are Maxie Long, Curt Sachs, Carl Switzer, Ernst Fast, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, and Luigi Sturzo. After him are Kenneth Anderson, Johannes Kleiman, Max Baer, Aleksandr Khinchin, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, and Jerry Unser Jr..

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Erhard Schmidt ranks 65 out of 351. Before him are Johannes Vares (1890), Ene Ergma (1944), Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914), Lionel Kieseritzky (1806), Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1750), and Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819). After him are Jüri Uluots (1890), Betti Alver (1906), Eduard Tubin (1905), Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1794), Kazimierz Świątek (1914), and Ita Ever (1931).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Estonia

Among mathematicians born in Estonia, Erhard Schmidt ranks 1. After him are Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851), and Hellmuth Kneser (1898).

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