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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 160,456 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alfréd Rényi is the 624th most popular mathematician (down from 593rd in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 375th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfréd Rényi ranks 624 out of 823. Before him are Federico Commandino, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Alexander Gelfond, Grete Hermann, Ennio de Giorgi, and Heinz Hopf. After him are Olga Taussky-Todd, James Ivory, Elias M. Stein, Georg Stiernhielm, Charles Dupin, and Johann Benedict Listing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Alfréd Rényi ranks 259. Before him are Bernard Lown, Mikayil Abdullayev, Gunnar Eriksson, Kees de Jager, Jacques Martin, and Juan José Arreola. After him are Carol Channing, Sotiria Bellou, Francis Blanche, Herb Ellis, Paco Godia, and Betty Hutton. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfréd Rényi ranks 167. Before him are Orhan Kemal, Johnny Hodges, Alfred Sturtevant, Pierre Mac Orlan, Ralph Hartley, and Inger Stevens. After him are Alla Horska, Peter Doi, Marcel Minnaert, Anna Louise Strong, Jérôme Carcopino, and Jaipal Singh Munda.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Alfréd Rényi ranks 426 out of 866. Before him are László Lékai (1910), Tibor Szamuely (1890), Zoltán Horváth (1937), Sándor Wekerle (1848), Géza von Bolváry (1897), and Kati Kovács (1944). After him are Kálmán Kandó (1869), Angelica Bella (1968), Miklós Németh (1946), János Farkas (1942), Gyula Kállai (1910), and Alfréd Haar (1885).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Alfréd Rényi ranks 15. Before him are Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Pál Turán (1910), Rózsa Péter (1905), and Endre Szemerédi (1940). After him are Alfréd Haar (1885), Lipót Fejér (1880), Cornelius Lanczos (1893), Vera T. Sós (1930), and Raoul Bott (1923).

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