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Philipp Ludwig von Seidel

1821 - 1896

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Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ([fɔn ˈzaɪdəl]; 24 October 1821 in Zweibrücken, Germany – 13 August 1896 in Munich, German Empire) was a German mathematician. He was the son of Julie Reinhold and Justus Christian Felix Seidel. Philosopher & math theorist Imre Lakatos credits von Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence, while analyzing an incorrect proof put forth earlier by Augustin-Louis Cauchy. In 1857, von Seidel contributed to the field of optics when he decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Ludwig von Seidel is the 415th most popular mathematician (down from 380th in 2019), the 2,593rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,520th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ranks 415 out of 1,004. Before him are Edmund Gunter, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Gilles de Roberval, Ernesto Cesàro, Oscar Zariski, and Pierre Raymond de Montmort. After him are Roger Cotes, Jakow Trachtenberg, Daniele Barbaro, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Guido Fubini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ranks 42. Before him are Napoleon Sarony, Leon Pinsker, Gabriel García Moreno, John C. Breckinridge, Mary Baker Eddy, and Ferdinand Gregorovius. After him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Ion C. Brătianu, Cyprian Norwid, Félix Ziem, George Williams, and Vasile Alecsandri. Among people deceased in 1896, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ranks 38. Before him are Félix Tisserand, Ernst Curtius, Adalbert Krueger, Napoleon Sarony, Karl Verner, and Louis Gerhard De Geer. After him are Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Robert Nobel, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Charles Floquet, and Luis Ricardo Falero.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ranks 2,594 out of 7,253. Before him are William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), Karl Koch (1809), Louis of Nassau (1538), Lujo Brentano (1844), and William III, Duke of Bavaria (1375). After him are Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1717), Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1622), Hermann Levi (1839), Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (1593), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), and Otto von Lossow (1868).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel ranks 48. Before him are Michael Maestlin (1550), Lothar Collatz (1910), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Helmut Hasse (1898), Thomas Fincke (1561), and Johann Benedict Listing (1808). After him are Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Johannes Werner (1468), Gerd Faltings (1954), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), and Abraham Fraenkel (1891).

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