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Paul Gordan

1837 - 1912

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Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a German mathematician known for work in invariant theory and for the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Gordan's lemma. He was called "the king of invariant theory". His most famous result is that the ring of invariants of binary forms of fixed degree is finitely generated. Clebsch–Gordan coefficients are named after him and Alfred Clebsch. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gordan is the 726th most popular mathematician (down from 638th in 2019), the 948th most popular biography from Poland (down from 868th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Gordan ranks 726 out of 1,004. Before him are Eugene Dynkin, John Cairncross, Wu Wenjun, David Cox, Pingala, and Max Newman. After him are Leopold Vietoris, Moritz Pasch, Otto Toeplitz, William Hopkins, Yuri Matiyasevich, and Thomas Digges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Paul Gordan ranks 92. Before him are Francis Marrash, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Ralph Copeland, Artur Grottger, and Thomas Moran. After him are Princess Leopoldine of Baden, Petre P. Carp, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, William Dean Howells, Leo Königsberger, and Pedro Varela. Among people deceased in 1912, Paul Gordan ranks 100. Before him are Antonio Pacinotti, Cesare Arzelà, James Allen, Francis Davis Millet, Daniel Burnham, and Walter Clopton Wingfield. After him are José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Émile Lemoine, Ferdinand Monoyer, Felix Dahn, and Henri Bouckaert.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 948 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan T. Gross (1947), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Frederick Jagiellon (1468), O. E. Hasse (1903), and Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886). After him are Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz (1861), Leszek Engelking (1955), Andrew Golota (1968), Moritz Pasch (1843), Otto Toeplitz (1881), and Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Paul Gordan ranks 30. Before him are Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Karol Borsuk (1905), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Heinz Hopf (1894), and Jan Śniadecki (1756). After him are Moritz Pasch (1843), Otto Toeplitz (1881), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Franz Mertens (1840), Hans Lewy (1904), and Leo Königsberger (1837).

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