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Karl Mollweide

1774 - 1825

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Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he rediscovered the formula now known as Mollweide's formula. He invented a map projection called the Mollweide projection. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Mollweide is the 478th most popular mathematician (up from 481st in 2019), the 2,977th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,202nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karl Mollweide ranks 478 out of 1,004. Before him are Charles Julien Brianchon, William Sealy Gosset, Hermann Hankel, Robert Langlands, W. V. D. Hodge, and Al-Samawal al-Maghribi. After him are Kurt Hensel, Philipp Frank, Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, Bruno Abakanowicz, James Waddell Alexander II, and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Karl Mollweide ranks 25. Before him are Matthew Flinders, Robert Southey, Francis Baily, Lord William Bentinck, Václav Tomášek, and Pierre Rode. After him are Marie-Denise Villers, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Georg von Langsdorff, Meriwether Lewis, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Johnny Appleseed. Among people deceased in 1825, Karl Mollweide ranks 21. Before him are Vivant Denon, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Mikhail Miloradovich, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Jan Václav Voříšek, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, and Peter Winter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 2,979 out of 7,253. Before him are Elga Andersen (1935), Aribert Reimann (1936), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Adam Kraft (1450), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889). After him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Otto Schniewind (1887), John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1634), Johann Fust (1400), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), and Gustav Fröhlich (1902).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Mollweide ranks 57. Before him are Johannes Werner (1468), Gerd Faltings (1954), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), August Leopold Crelle (1780), and Hermann Hankel (1839). After him are Otto Hölder (1859), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Hans Freudenthal (1905), and Max Dehn (1878).

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