Carl Friedrich Gauß

Quality:

Carl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855). This person is the 1758^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 661^st most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Carl Friedrich Gauß” in German Wikipedia has 84.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 36 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2258^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 826^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 661^st most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6048^th most popular in all topics.

The 1457^th most popular in AI.

The 1758^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4768^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9888^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5869^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Carl Friedrich Gauß” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5869^th place).

Since the creation of article “Carl Friedrich Gauß”, its content was written by 639 registered users of German Wikipedia (826^th place) and edited by 5610 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1457^th place).

Carl Friedrich Gauss is on the 661^st place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 1758^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 905 times in German Wikipedia and cited 13234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #121 in February 2015
• Global: #133 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #34 in April 2018
• Global: #119 in April 2018

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		98.6798
2	Polish (pl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		98.4373
3	Esperanto (eo) Carl Friedrich Gauss		89.0584
4	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		87.706
5	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		84.5326
6	Czech (cs) Carl Friedrich Gauss		78.0627
7	Arabic (ar) كارل فريدريش غاوس		77.8673
8	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		77.3411
9	Vietnamese (vi) Carl Friedrich Gauß		75.4173
10	Latin (la) Carolus Fridericus Gauss		65.1916

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		11 512 593
2	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		5 374 388
3	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		5 011 965
4	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		1 884 675
5	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		1 676 567
6	Portuguese (pt) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 513 188
7	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 199 981
8	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		1 182 494
9	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 083 110
10	Turkish (tr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		865 337

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		40 400
2	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		12 840
3	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		10 119
4	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		6 589
5	Portuguese (pt) Carl Friedrich Gauss		6 360
6	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		6 063
7	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		4 932
8	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3 809
9	Korean (ko) 카를 프리드리히 가우스		3 339
10	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3 330

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 241
2	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		639
3	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		288
4	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		269
5	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		257
6	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		189
7	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		172
8	Dutch (nl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		163
9	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		161
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		135

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		7
2	Czech (cs) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3
3	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3
4	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		2
5	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		2
6	Catalan (ca) Carl Friedrich Gauß		1
7	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1
9	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		1
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information