MATHEMATICIAN

Hermann Schwarz

1843 - 1921

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Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃvaʁts]; 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Schwarz is the 219th most popular mathematician (down from 211th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Poland (up from 275th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Hermann Schwarz is most famous for his discovery of the Schwarzschild radius, which is the radius of a black hole.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Schwarz ranks 219 out of 1,004. Before him are Piet Hein, Peter Tait, Élie Cartan, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Pierre Bouguer, and Thomas Abbt. After him are Robert Aumann, Pedro Nunes, Laurent Schwartz, Martin Kutta, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Hermann Schwarz ranks 23. Before him are Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Richard Avenarius, Benito Pérez Galdós, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Teófilo Braga, and Walther Flemming. After him are Mariano Rampolla, Oscar Montelius, Henryk Siemiradzki, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Hans Richter, and Anton von Werner. Among people deceased in 1921, Hermann Schwarz ranks 28. Before him are Mykola Leontovych, Eugen Dühring, Matthias Erzberger, William II of Württemberg, Ignác Goldziher, and Julius Richard Petri. After him are Karl von Bülow, Oscar Montelius, Georges Feydeau, Ivan Vazov, Yan Fu, and Robert de Montesquiou.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Schwarz ranks 260 out of 1,694. Before him are Itzhak Stern (1901), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), and Agnieszka Holland (1948). After him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Jan Długosz (1415), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), and Martin Kutta (1867).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Hermann Schwarz ranks 10. Before him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865). After him are Martin Kutta (1867), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Vitello (1230), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Alfred Korzybski (1879).

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