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 150,719 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Abraham Robinson is the 414th most popular mathematician (up from 518th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from Poland (up from 700th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abraham Robinson ranks 414 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Mary Cartwright, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Thomas Fincke, and László Lovász. After him are Henryk Zygalski, Georgy Voronoy, Albert W. Tucker, Al-Sijzi, Helmut Hasse, and Michael O. Rabin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abraham Robinson ranks 125. Before him are Antonín Mrkos, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Humaira Begum, Kevin A. Lynch, George Mosse, and David Ausubel. After him are Hella Haasse, Alexander Shelepin, Teresa Wright, Marie Smith Jones, Cameron Mitchell, and Elmore James. Among people deceased in 1974, Abraham Robinson ranks 95. Before him are Walther Meissner, Messali Hadj, Donald Crisp, Georgios Grivas, Josef Krips, and Earl Warren. After him are Aman Andom, Vladimir Smirnov, Olga Baclanova, Victor Boin, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Abraham Robinson ranks 587 out of 1,694. Before him are Edward Ochab (1906), Jan Sarkander (1576), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Joachim Meisner (1933). After him are Henryk Dembiński (1791), Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Franceska Mann (1917), Otto Freundlich (1878), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), and Krystyna Janda (1952).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Abraham Robinson ranks 20. Before him are Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), and Richard Courant (1888). After him are Michael O. Rabin (1931), Martin Kutta (1867), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Moritz Pasch (1843), and Alfred Pringsheim (1850).

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