MATHEMATICIAN

Ludolph van Ceulen

1540 - 1610

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Ludolph van Ceulen (German: [ˈluːdɔlf fan ˈkɔʏlən], Dutch: [ˈlydɔl(ə) fɑŋ ˈkøːlə(n)]; 28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim. He emigrated to the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludolph van Ceulen is the 63rd most popular mathematician (up from 68th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from Germany (up from 335th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Mathematician.

Ludolph van Ceulen is most famous for calculating the value of Pi to over 31 digits.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 63 out of 1,004. Before him are Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marin Mersenne, and Émilie du Châtelet. After him are Girard Desargues, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Hermann Minkowski, and Andrey Kolmogorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 3. Before him are Francis Drake, and François Viète. After him are Charles II, Archduke of Austria, John Sigismund Zápolya, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Lady Katherine Grey, Maharana Pratap, Hümaşah Sultan, José de Acosta, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, and Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme. Among people deceased in 1610, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 4. Before him are Caravaggio, Henry IV of France, and Matteo Ricci. After him are François Ravaillac, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Honda Tadakatsu, Adam Elsheimer, Anna of Sweden, False Dmitry II, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, and Hasegawa Tōhaku.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 319 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), Karl Ziegler (1898), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Hermann Staudinger (1881), and Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787). After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Anton Drexler (1884), Bertha Benz (1849), Katharina von Bora (1498), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Carl Bosch (1874).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Ludolph van Ceulen ranks 10. Before him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), and Karl Weierstrass (1815). After him are Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Felix Klein (1849), and Christopher Clavius (1538).

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