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Ernst Kummer

1810 - 1893

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Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Kummer is the 162nd most popular mathematician (down from 138th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Poland (down from 188th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Ernst Kummer was a mathematician who was most famous for his work on Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ernst Kummer ranks 162 out of 1,004. Before him are Oliver Heaviside, Aloysius Lilius, Autolycus of Pitane, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Peter Lax, and Scipione del Ferro. After him are Sophus Lie, Vito Volterra, Jost Bürgi, James Joseph Sylvester, Menelaus of Alexandria, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Ernst Kummer ranks 15. Before him are Howard Staunton, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Otto Nicolai. After him are Fanny Elssler, Henri Victor Regnault, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Karl Richard Lepsius, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, and Princess Marianne of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1893, Ernst Kummer ranks 12. Before him are Rutherford B. Hayes, Jean-Martin Charcot, Jan Matejko, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, and Baron Alexander von Bach. After him are Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Jules Ferry, John Tyndall, Benjamin Butler, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Kummer ranks 196 out of 1,694. Before him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), and Daniel Libeskind (1946). After him are Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), and Richard Abegg (1869).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Ernst Kummer ranks 5. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), and Marian Rejewski (1905). After him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).

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