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Oskar Perron

1880 - 1975

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Oskar Perron (7 May 1880 – 22 February 1975) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1914 to 1922 and at the University of Munich from 1922 to 1951. He made numerous contributions to differential equations and partial differential equations, including the Perron method to solve the Dirichlet problem for elliptic partial differential equations. He wrote an encyclopedic book on continued fractions Die Lehre von den Kettenbrüchen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Perron is the 835th most popular mathematician (down from 774th in 2019), the 5,044th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,784th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oskar Perron ranks 835 out of 1,004. Before him are Hellmuth Kneser, Friedrich Engel, Corrado Segre, George Szekeres, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, and Marcel Riesz. After him are Harish-Chandra, Marina Ratner, Erich Kähler, Francesco Severi, Wolfgang Krull, and Boris Galerkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Oskar Perron ranks 197. Before him are Paul Castanet, Arthur Dove, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Vilhelm Carlberg, Julio C. Tello, and Marcel Van Crombrugge. After him are Gorch Fock, Luis Alberto Riart, Enrique Olaya Herrera, Einar Arnórsson, Emma P. Carr, and Russell Simpson. Among people deceased in 1975, Oskar Perron ranks 229. Before him are Paul Verhoeven, Larry Fine, Åge Lundström, Adrienne Bolland, Jacob Bjerknes, and Viktor Anichkin. After him are Per-Erik Hedlund, Henry Louis Hudson, Bram Fischer, Frank Shields, Syed Nazrul Islam, and James Robertson Justice.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Perron ranks 5,047 out of 7,253. Before him are Leo Wilden (1936), Norbert Blüm (1935), Nathan Zach (1930), Hermann Nuber (1935), Georg Holtzendorff (null), and Rudolph Dirks (1877). After him are Jens Nowotny (1974), Frank Schwalba-Hoth (1952), Hannelore Schroth (1922), Katja Riemann (1963), Erich Kähler (1906), and Franz Sigel (1824).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Oskar Perron ranks 94. Before him are Christoph Gudermann (1798), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Hans Rademacher (1892), and Friedrich Engel (1861). After him are Erich Kähler (1906), Wolfgang Krull (1899), Richard Rado (1906), Walther von Dyck (1856), Richard Brauer (1901), and Leopold Löwenheim (1878).

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