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Regiomontanus

1436 - 1476

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Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death. Regiomontanus wrote under the Latinized name of Ioannes de Monteregio (or Monte Regio; Regio Monte); the toponym Regiomontanus was first used by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534. He is named after Königsberg in Lower Franconia, not the larger Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad) in Prussia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Regiomontanus is the 76th most popular mathematician (up from 81st in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Germany (up from 424th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Mathematician.

Regiomontanus is most famous for his work in astronomy. He was the first person to create a star catalog and map of the sky.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Regiomontanus ranks 76 out of 1,004. Before him are Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, Giuseppe Peano, Stanislaw Ulam, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Bhāskara II. After him are János Bolyai, Katherine Johnson, Pappus of Alexandria, Benoit Mandelbrot, Thābit ibn Qurra, and Zhang Heng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1436, Regiomontanus ranks 1. After him are Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Leonardo Loredan, Francesco del Cossa, Louis of Cyprus, Tizoc, and Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset. Among people deceased in 1476, Regiomontanus ranks 3. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, and Simonetta Vespucci. After him are Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Stefan Branković, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Frederick I, Elector Palatine, George VIII of Georgia, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, and Pietro Mocenigo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Regiomontanus ranks 380 out of 7,253. Before him are Emil Kraepelin (1856), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Franz Halder (1884), George Paget Thomson (1892), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), and Pope Victor II (1018). After him are Joseph Beuys (1921), Thomas à Kempis (1380), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), and Valdemar I of Denmark (1131).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Regiomontanus ranks 12. Before him are Emmy Noether (1882), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), and Richard Dedekind (1831). After him are Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Felix Klein (1849), Christopher Clavius (1538), Andrew Wiles (1953), and Hermann Weyl (1885).

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