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Luigi Cremona

1830 - 1903

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Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona (7 December 1830 – 10 June 1903) was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces, particularly through his paper Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane ("Introduction to a geometrical theory of the plane curves"), and was a founder of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Cremona is the 463rd most popular mathematician (down from 426th in 2019), the 2,516th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,532nd in 2019) and the 39th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Luigi Cremona ranks 463 out of 1,004. Before him are Mary Cartwright, Vladimir Smirnov, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Adriaan van Roomen, Klaus Roth, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. After him are Nikolai Luzin, Campanus of Novara, Ismaël Bullialdus, Abraham Fraenkel, August Leopold Crelle, and Michael O. Rabin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Luigi Cremona ranks 42. Before him are Henry Bird, Alexei Savrasov, Albert Bierstadt, Guido Gezelle, Christina Rossetti, and Henry Flagler. After him are Kamehameha V, Harriet Lane, Kálmán Tisza, Karl Christian Bruhns, Mehmed Said Pasha, and Grigor Parlichev. Among people deceased in 1903, Luigi Cremona ranks 41. Before him are Paul Du Chaillu, Ronglu, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Augusta Holmès, Béni Kállay, and Malwida von Meysenbug. After him are Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Konstantinos Paspatis, Harriet Lane, and Robert Planquette.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Cremona ranks 2,516 out of 5,161. Before him are Dagobert of Pisa (1100), Giancarlo Antognoni (1954), Crescenzio Sepe (1943), Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (-400), Carlo Airoldi (1869), and Jannik Sinner (2001). After him are Gaétan Vestris (1729), Carlo Lizzani (1922), Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat (1609), Quintus Caecilius Metellus (-300), Filippo Pacini (1812), and Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (1343).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Luigi Cremona ranks 39. Before him are Daniele Barbaro (1513), Guido Fubini (1879), Ignazio Danti (1536), Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555), Benedetto Castelli (1578), and Enrico Betti (1823). After him are Campanus of Novara (1210), Guidobaldo del Monte (1545), Pietro Mengoli (1626), Giovanni Battista Zupi (1589), Gino Fano (1871), and Ulisse Dini (1845).

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