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Paul Koebe

1882 - 1945

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Paul Koebe (15 February 1882 – 6 August 1945) was a 20th-century German mathematician. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. He did his thesis at Berlin, where he worked under Hermann Schwarz. He was an extraordinary professor at Leipzig from 1910 to 1914, then an ordinary professor at the University of Jena before returning to Leipzig in 1926 as an ordinary professor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Koebe is the 915th most popular mathematician (down from 882nd in 2019), the 5,476th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,323rd in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Koebe ranks 915 out of 1,004. Before him are David Blackwell, Mark Kac, Salomon Bochner, Philip Hall, Don Zagier, and Branko Grünbaum. After him are James Arthur, Martin David Kruskal, William Spottiswoode, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, William Gemmell Cochran, and Cathleen Synge Morawetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Paul Koebe ranks 274. Before him are Clarence Kingsbury, Conrad Christensen, Alexandre Schaumasse, Dora Marsden, Mina Loy, and Marie Doro. After him are George Siegmann, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Johnny Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, George Bonhag, and Herbert E. Ives. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Koebe ranks 342. Before him are Alexander Patch, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Arthur Symons, Jules Pappaert, Cosmo Gordon Lang, and Thomas Lewis. After him are Søren Petersen, Tom Taylor, Hiram Johnson, Charles Sands, Willis Augustus Lee, and Mark Sandrich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Koebe ranks 5,479 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolfgang Scheidel (1943), Don Zagier (1951), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (1951), Frank Schätzing (1957), Lutz Dombrowski (1959), and Karl Neumer (1887). After him are Helge Schneider (1955), Olaf Marschall (1966), Frank Ullrich (1958), Günter Hermann (1960), Petra Schersing (1965), and Robert Schwentke (1968).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Paul Koebe ranks 104. Before him are Walther von Dyck (1856), Richard Brauer (1901), Leopold Löwenheim (1878), Ruth Moufang (1905), Volker Strassen (1936), and Don Zagier (1951). After him are Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (1837), and Peter Scholze (1987).

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