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Alfréd Rényi

1921 - 1970

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Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfréd Rényi has received more than 169,330 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alfréd Rényi is the 679th most popular mathematician (down from 621st in 2019), the 479th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 426th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfréd Rényi ranks 679 out of 1,004. Before him are Ian Stewart, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, John Cairncross, E. T. Whittaker, Henry Dudeney, and Vladimir Drinfeld. After him are Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, David Gale, and Sylvestre François Lacroix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Alfréd Rényi ranks 267. Before him are Edvard Mirzoyan, Mario Rigoni Stern, Cuthbert Sebastian, Alenush Terian, Buddy Rogers, and Paco Godia. After him are Harry Daghlian, Helena Rakoczy, David Gale, Harold Agnew, John Agar, and Yuri Ozerov. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfréd Rényi ranks 177. Before him are James B. Donovan, Vince Lombardi, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Orhan Kemal, and Pierre Mac Orlan. After him are Julius Pokorny, István Kozma, Kiichiro Higuchi, Arne Nyberg, Marcel Minnaert, and Haakon Sörvik.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Alfréd Rényi ranks 479 out of 1,077. Before him are Jenő Jandó (1952), Géza Alföldy (1935), Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (1937), Károly Németh (1922), Kati Kovács (1944), and Paul von Jankó (1856). After him are Gergely Kulcsár (1934), Emília Rotter (1906), István Kozma (1939), László Raffinsky (1905), István Bibó (1911), and Gyula Zsivótzky (1937).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Alfréd Rényi ranks 19. Before him are Dénes Kőnig (1884), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Lipót Fejér (1880), Rózsa Péter (1905), and Vera T. Sós (1930). After him are Alfréd Haar (1885), Marcel Riesz (1886), Cornelius Lanczos (1893), George Szekeres (1911), and Béla Bollobás (1943).

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