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Viggo Brun

1885 - 1978

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Viggo Brun (13 October 1885 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian professor, mathematician and number theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viggo Brun is the 345th most popular mathematician (up from 379th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Norway (up from 140th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Viggo Brun ranks 345 out of 1,004Before him are Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, and Felix Bernstein. After him are Klára Dán von Neumann, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Giambattista Benedetti, Gaston Julia, Andreas Osiander, and Johannes Widmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Viggo Brun ranks 78Before him are Camille Chautemps, Jacques Feyder, Egon Kisch, Lilly Reich, Soemu Toyoda, and Khải Định. After him are Nikolai Krylenko, John Edensor Littlewood, Paul von Hase, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Dora Pejačević, and Lev Rudnev. Among people deceased in 1978, Viggo Brun ranks 74Before him are Nico Diederichs, Herbert Kappler, Pablo Dorado, Lilya Brik, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and Wadie Haddad. After him are Pancho Vladigerov, Gaston Julia, Samuel Goudsmit, José Manuel Moreno, Burt Munro, and Oscar Homolka.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Viggo Brun ranks 129 out of 1,039Before him are Christian Sinding (1856), Carsten Borchgrevink (1864), Erna Solberg (1961), Ole Einar Bjørndalen (1974), Trygve Gulbranssen (1894), and Kåre Willoch (1928). After him are Varg Vikernes (1973), Harriet Backer (1845), Kitty Lange Kielland (1843), Caspar Wessel (1745), Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831), and Trygve Bratteli (1910).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Viggo Brun ranks 5Before him are Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Sophus Lie (1842), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), and Atle Selberg (1917). After him are Caspar Wessel (1745), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Thoralf Skolem (1887), Carl Størmer (1874), Axel Thue (1863), and Øystein Ore (1899).