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Cornelius Lanczos

1893 - 1974

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Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (Hungarian: Lánczos Kornél, pronounced [ˈlaːnt͡soʃ ˈkorneːl]; born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél; February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian-Jewish, Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cornelius Lanczos has received more than 165,873 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Cornelius Lanczos is the 815th most popular mathematician (down from 685th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 480th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cornelius Lanczos ranks 815 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Hindenburg, Yasumasa Kanada, Hans Lewy, Vladimir Voevodsky, Christoph Gudermann, and Mary Everest Boole. After him are Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Armand Borel, James Waddell Alexander II, Boris Galerkin, Laurent Lafforgue, and Nikolai Bugaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Cornelius Lanczos ranks 229. Before him are Toti Dal Monte, Urho Peltonen, Romeo Bertini, Stasys Girėnas, John Norton, and Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas. After him are Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Ragnar Malm, Aksel Berg, Sidney Franklin, Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, and Harlow Curtice. Among people deceased in 1974, Cornelius Lanczos ranks 208. Before him are Ferreira de Castro, Gerhard Lamprecht, Jaime Torres Bodet, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Marieluise Fleißer, and José Vidal. After him are Luis Marín, Karen Silkwood, Sergey Urusevsky, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Gaston Mercier, and Mamerto Urriolagoitía.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Cornelius Lanczos ranks 622 out of 1,077. Before him are László Papp (1905), Ernő Solymosi (1940), György Gedó (1949), Géza von Bolváry (1897), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), and Lajos Haynald (1816). After him are Ervin Mészáros (1877), János Parti (1932), Gizella Farkas (1925), István Pelle (1907), Márta Sebestyén (1957), and Lajos Kű (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Cornelius Lanczos ranks 22. Before him are Lipót Fejér (1880), Rózsa Péter (1905), Vera T. Sós (1930), Alfréd Rényi (1921), Alfréd Haar (1885), and Marcel Riesz (1886). After him are George Szekeres (1911), and Béla Bollobás (1943).

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