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Nicholas Mercator

1620 - 1687

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Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician. He was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which he lived from 1642 to 1648 in the Netherlands. He lectured at the University of Copenhagen during 1648–1654 and lived in Paris from 1655 to 1657. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Mercator is the 358th most popular mathematician (down from 335th in 2019), the 2,150th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,279th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nicholas Mercator ranks 358 out of 1,004. Before him are Kiyosi Itô, Abraham bar Hiyya, Liu Xin, Caspar Wessel, Al-Sijzi, and Paul Neményi. After him are Francesco Maurolico, John Edensor Littlewood, George Peacock, John Graunt, Paul Émile Appell, and Otto Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Nicholas Mercator ranks 11. Before him are Avvakum, Pierre Puget, Jean Picard, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. After him are John Graunt, Isabella Leonarda, Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Abraham van Beijeren, Masaniello, and François Bernier. Among people deceased in 1687, Nicholas Mercator ranks 8. Before him are Johannes Hevelius, William Petty, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Constantijn Huygens, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, and Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Henry More, Nell Gwyn, Geminiano Montanari, Laura Martinozzi, and François de Créquy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicholas Mercator ranks 2,151 out of 7,253. Before him are Mathias Rust (1968), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Arp Schnitger (1648), and Basil Valentine (1394). After him are Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (1305), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Nicholas Mercator ranks 41. Before him are Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Julius Plücker (1801), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Andreas Osiander (1498). After him are Michael Maestlin (1550), Lothar Collatz (1910), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Helmut Hasse (1898), Thomas Fincke (1561), and Johann Benedict Listing (1808).

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