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 538,471 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alfred Korzybski is the 255th most popular mathematician (down from 241st in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Poland (down from 318th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred Korzybski ranks 255 out of 1,004. Before him are Edmund Landau, Jabir ibn Aflah, Jacopo Riccati, Édouard Roche, Abraham Zacuto, and Jean-Robert Argand. After him are Michael Stifel, Hugo Steinhaus, Guo Shoujing, Andreas Osiander, Hans Hahn, and Adolf Hurwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alfred Korzybski ranks 57. Before him are Huda Sha'arawi, Bedřich Hrozný, Edward Steichen, Kartini, Max Emmerich, and Hisaichi Terauchi. After him are Nikolai Medtner, Margaret Sanger, Hans Hahn, William Beveridge, Mark Sykes, and Vladko Maček. Among people deceased in 1950, Alfred Korzybski ranks 55. Before him are Charles Koechlin, Salvatore Giuliano, Adam Rainer, Grigory Kulik, Liane de Pougy, and Rafael Sabatini. After him are Alma Karlin, Agnes Smedley, Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, Walter Huston, and Abraham Wald.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 356 out of 1,694. Before him are Werner Naumann (1909), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886). After him are Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), Józef Elsner (1769), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), and Roman Ingarden (1893).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 12. Before him are Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896). After him are Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Klaus Roth (1925).

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