Carl Friedrich Gauss

Quality:

Carl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855). This person is the 1823^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Carl Friedrich Gauss” in English Wikipedia has 98.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 415 references and 37 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3749^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6107^th most popular in all topics.

The 1481^st most popular in AI.

The 1823^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3575^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Carl Friedrich Gauss” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 34 authors in all languages (3575^th place).

Since the creation of article “Carl Friedrich Gauss”, its content was written by 1268 registered users of English Wikipedia (3749^th place) and edited by 5629 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1481^st place).

Carl Friedrich Gauss is on the 1823^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1338 times in English Wikipedia and cited 13311 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #135 in September 2002
• Global: #133 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #315 in April 2018
• Global: #120 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, 2026 (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	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		99.9681
2	Polish (pl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		99.0074
3	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		98.1843
4	Esperanto (eo) Carl Friedrich Gauss		88.864
5	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		88.4968
6	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		83.8108
7	Arabic (ar) كارل فريدريش غاوس		77.4284
8	Czech (cs) Carl Friedrich Gauss		76.6021
9	Vietnamese (vi) Carl Friedrich Gauß		75.1343
10	Galician (gl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		69.2655

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Friedrich Gauss		12 014 366
2	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		5 483 229
3	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		5 224 255
4	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		2 039 308
5	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		1 738 509
6	Portuguese (pt) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 548 744
7	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		1 275 363
8	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 251 650
9	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1 122 396
10	Turkish (tr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		905 401

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		34 199
2	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		12 427
3	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		6 178
4	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		4 951
5	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		4 599
6	Turkish (tr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3 669
7	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		3 501
8	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3 286
9	Portuguese (pt) Carl Friedrich Gauss		2 136
10	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		2 129

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		1 268
2	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		645
3	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		295
4	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		274
5	Italian (it) Carl Friedrich Gauss		260
6	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		193
7	Russian (ru) Гаусс, Карл Фридрих		177
8	Dutch (nl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		167
9	Chinese (zh) 卡爾·弗里德里希·高斯		167
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フリードリヒ・ガウス		138

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	German (de) Carl Friedrich Gauß		4
3	Arabic (ar) كارل فريدريش غاوس		3
4	Catalan (ca) Carl Friedrich Gauß		3
5	Spanish (es) Carl Friedrich Gauss		3
6	Hebrew (he) קרל פרידריך גאוס		2
7	Dutch (nl) Carl Friedrich Gauss		2
8	Esperanto (eo) Carl Friedrich Gauss		1
9	Persian (fa) کارل فریدریش گاوس		1
10	French (fr) Carl Friedrich Gauss		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information