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MATHEMATICIAN

Alfred Korzybski

1879 - 1950

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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, Polish: [ˈalfrɛt kɔˈʐɨpskʲi]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Korzybski has received more than 506,231 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Korzybski is the 241st most popular mathematician (down from 223rd in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Poland (down from 287th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred Korzybski ranks 241 out of 823. Before him are Johannes de Sacrobosco, Émile Picard, Robert Recorde, Michel Chasles, Eduard Heine, and Joseph Petzval. After him are Leo Perutz, Ibn al-Shatir, George Atwood, Farkas Bolyai, Israel Gelfand, and Simon Newcomb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alfred Korzybski ranks 54. Before him are Paul Poiret, Max Schreck, Edward Steichen, Bedřich Hrozný, Hisaichi Terauchi, and Adolf Strauss. After him are Nikolai Medtner, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, William Fox, Ethel Barrymore, Agrippina Vaganova, and Marius Jacob. Among people deceased in 1950, Alfred Korzybski ranks 48. Before him are Melitta Bentz, Liane de Pougy, Emil Abderhalden, Eliel Saarinen, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, and Salvatore Giuliano. After him are Ryuzo Shimizu, Charles Koechlin, Vasil Kolarov, Fevzi Çakmak, Agnes Smedley, and Karl Guthe Jansky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 318 out of 1,454. Before him are Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), Józef Elsner (1769), Bolesław V the Chaste (1226), and Sophie of Pomerania (1498). After him are Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Otto Mueller (1874), Stefan Czarniecki (1599), and Robert Luther (1822).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 13. Before him are Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896). After him are Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Richard Courant (1888), Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), and Michael O. Rabin (1931).

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