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Franz Mertens

1840 - 1927

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Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also known as Franciszek Mertens) was a German-Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria. The Mertens function M(x) is the sum function for the Möbius function, in the theory of arithmetic functions. The Mertens conjecture concerning its growth, conjecturing it bounded by x1/2, which would have implied the Riemann hypothesis, is now known to be false (Odlyzko and te Riele, 1985). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Mertens is the 767th most popular mathematician (up from 775th in 2019), the 1,006th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,043rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Franz Mertens ranks 767 out of 1,004. Before him are Simon Donaldson, Harald Cramér, Ludwig Schlesinger, Hua Luogeng, Charles Howard Hinton, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli. After him are Hassler Whitney, John Lennox, Paul Montel, Hans Lewy, Francesco Brioschi, and Sergey Mergelyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Franz Mertens ranks 85. Before him are Henri Duveyrier, Theodor Philipsen, Angelo de Gubernatis, Émile Lemoine, Iakob Gogebashvili, and John Philip Holland. After him are Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Richard Knill Freeman, Simeon Solomon, Ghazaros Aghayan, and Sophia Jex-Blake. Among people deceased in 1927, Franz Mertens ranks 124. Before him are Leonard Nelson, Feliciano Viera, Marie Spartali Stillman, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Marianne Stokes, and Henri Hubert. After him are Sascha Schneider, Édouard Louis Trouessart, Friedrich von Scholtz, Émile Albrecht, Carl H. Eigenmann, and Virgilio Mantegazza.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franz Mertens ranks 1,006 out of 1,694. Before him are Edward Babiuch (1927), Leon Kozłowski (1892), Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1951), Hyman G. Rickover (1900), Lothar Bolz (1903), and Alexander Abusch (1902). After him are Stanisław Wielgus (1939), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), Igor Newerly (1903), Halina Poświatowska (1935), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (1959), and Waldemar Baszanowski (1935).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Franz Mertens ranks 34. Before him are Heinz Hopf (1894), Jan Śniadecki (1756), Paul Gordan (1837), Moritz Pasch (1843), Otto Toeplitz (1881), and Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899). After him are Hans Lewy (1904), Leo Königsberger (1837), Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882), Jacob Bronowski (1908), Nathan Jacobson (1910), and Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888).

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