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Eduard Čech

1893 - 1960

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Eduard Čech (Czech: [ˈɛduart ˈtʃɛx]; 29 June 1893 – 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Čech has received more than 54,171 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Eduard Čech is the 632nd most popular mathematician (up from 644th in 2019), the 496th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 489th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Čech ranks 632 out of 823. Before him are James Ivory, Elias M. Stein, Georg Stiernhielm, Charles Dupin, Johann Benedict Listing, and Alfréd Haar. After him are Robert Simson, Carl Neumann, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Thoralf Skolem, and Claude Chevalley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Eduard Čech ranks 181. Before him are Haykanoush Danielyan, Platon Oyunsky, Charley Chase, Dora Carrington, Fatima Jinnah, and Marcel Minnaert. After him are Aleksei Losev, Liang Shuming, Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, Ivor Novello, Oskari Friman, and Chang Taek-sang. Among people deceased in 1960, Eduard Čech ranks 134. Before him are Walter Noddack, Wander Johannes de Haas, Noël Bas, Lya Mara, Oswald Veblen, and Harry Ferguson. After him are Teodoro Picado Michalski, Dmitry Gulia, Frank Elmore Ross, Harold Spencer Jones, Gregorio Marañón, and Antal Szalay.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 496 out of 973. Before him are Jan Blahoslav (1523), Olga Taussky-Todd (1906), Vladimir Kulich (1956), Tomáš Ujfaluši (1978), Ludvík Vaculík (1926), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857). After him are Jiří Holík (1944), Vlastimil Bubník (1931), Jan Šrámek (1870), Zecharias Frankel (1801), Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873), and Jaromír Weinberger (1896).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Czechia

Among mathematicians born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 5. Before him are Leo Perutz (1882), Johannes Widmann (1460), Johann Radon (1887), and Olga Taussky-Todd (1906).

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