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Heinz Prüfer

1896 - 1934

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Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer (10 November 1896 – 7 April 1934) was a German Jewish mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, graph theory, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. In 1915 he began his university studies in mathematics, physics and chemistry in Berlin. After that he started his doctorate degree with Issai Schur as his advisor at Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinz Prüfer is the 718th most popular mathematician (up from 825th in 2019), the 4,397th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,987th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Heinz Prüfer ranks 718 out of 1,004. Before him are Sofya Yanovskaya, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Jacques Tits, Alexander Ostrowski, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Carl Neumann. After him are Fritz Noether, Eugene Dynkin, John Cairncross, Wu Wenjun, David Cox, and Pingala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Heinz Prüfer ranks 197. Before him are Sofya Yanovskaya, Arthur Tell Schwab, Kim Iryeop, Art Langley, Gerhard Fieseler, and Kim Myeong-sun. After him are Marion Zinderstein, Walter Lang, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Ruben Lagus, Barbara La Marr, and Edvin Wide. Among people deceased in 1934, Heinz Prüfer ranks 118. Before him are Bunzō Hayata, Joachim Ringelnatz, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Zabel Sibil Asadour, Fritz Graebner, and Jafar Jabbarly. After him are Surya Sen, Hulda Garborg, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Pretty Boy Floyd, Nelly Diener, and Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz Prüfer ranks 4,399 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Ludwig Berger (1892), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg (1672), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Joseph Helffrich (1890), and Rita Kühne (1947). After him are Peter Gay (1923), Uschi Glas (1944), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg (1503), Fritz Noether (1884), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Heinz Prüfer ranks 82. Before him are Michael Artin (1934), Johann Schreck (1576), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854). After him are Fritz Noether (1884), Wilhelm Killing (1847), Leonard Nelson (1882), Carl Hindenburg (1741), Johann Faulhaber (1580), and Christoph Gudermann (1798).

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