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MATHEMATICIAN

Abraham Robinson

1918 - 1974

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Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Robinson has received more than 138,975 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Abraham Robinson is the 520th most popular mathematician (up from 541st in 2019), the 700th most popular biography from Poland (down from 685th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abraham Robinson ranks 520 out of 823. Before him are G. I. Taylor, Campanus of Novara, Martin Ohm, Egon Pearson, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes. After him are Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Terence Tao, Gerd Faltings, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Carl Adam Petri, and Ulisse Dini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abraham Robinson ranks 154. Before him are Brenda Milner, Cameron Mitchell, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Helen Stephens, Hank Jones, and Jelle Zijlstra. After him are Oles Honchar, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Robert Ettinger, Pyotr Masherov, Venetia Burney, and Suzanne Flon. Among people deceased in 1974, Abraham Robinson ranks 114. Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Bud Abbott, Sattar Bahlulzade, Peter Revson, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Bert Patenaude. After him are Lev Knipper, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Ernesto Vidal, Anna Q. Nilsson, Victor Boin, and Hertta Kuusinen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Abraham Robinson ranks 700 out of 1,454. Before him are Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), August Hlond (1881), Wolfgang Weber (1944), Max Weber (1881), Theodor Kullak (1818), and Simonas Daukantas (1793). After him are Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Leopold von Wiese (1876), and Jan Tomaszewski (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Abraham Robinson ranks 23. Before him are Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), and Samuel Eilenberg (1913). After him are Martin Kutta (1867), Karol Borsuk (1905), Moritz Pasch (1843), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Jan Śniadecki (1756), and Heinz Hopf (1894).

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