MATHEMATICIAN

Felix Bernstein

1878 - 1956

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Felix Bernstein (24 February 1878 – 3 December 1956), was a German mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory,: 5–6  and less well known for demonstrating in 1924 the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Bernstein is the 344th most popular mathematician (up from 376th in 2019), the 2,085th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,495th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Felix Bernstein ranks 344 out of 1,004Before him are Lev Pontryagin, Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana. After him are Viggo Brun, Klára Dán von Neumann, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Giambattista Benedetti, Gaston Julia, and Andreas Osiander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Felix Bernstein ranks 72Before him are Paul Pelliot, Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, Hans Ledwinka, Franz Schreker, and Lionel Barrymore. After him are Stephen Timoshenko, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Charles Joughin, Mikhail Artsybashev, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Among people deceased in 1956, Felix Bernstein ranks 68Before him are Art Tatum, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Guido Cantelli, Drastamat Kanayan, Miklós Nyiszli, and Jehanne D'Alcy. After him are Elmer Drew Merrill, Charles Joughin, Gerrit Smith Miller, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Otto Schmidt, and Michael Ventris.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Bernstein ranks 2,086 out of 7,253Before him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807), Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1332), and Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), Maria Reiter (1911), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), and Carl Laemmle (1867).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Felix Bernstein ranks 39Before him are Michael Stifel (1487), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), and Julius Plücker (1801). After him are Andreas Osiander (1498), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Michael Maestlin (1550), Lothar Collatz (1910), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), and Helmut Hasse (1898).