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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 53,599 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Eduard Čech is the 696th most popular mathematician (down from 629th in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 496th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Mathematician.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Eduard Čech has had the most page views in the with 6,364 views, followed by Czech (1,542), and Chinese (909). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Piedmontese (93.39%), Hebrew (68.65%), and Vietnamese (58.14%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Čech ranks 696 out of 1,004. Before him are Roy Kerr, Viktor Sadovnichiy, Jürgen Moser, Heinz Hopf, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and Lewis Fry Richardson. After him are Lady Byron, Jacques Tits, Abu Said Gorgani, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Dmitry Grave, and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Eduard Čech ranks 199. Before him are Harry Stenqvist, Gabrielle Petit, Georges Buchard, Georg Åberg, Marcel Minnaert, and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. After him are Marguerite Broquedis, Aleksei Losev, Blind Blake, Jimmy Durante, Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, and Frans Blom. Among people deceased in 1960, Eduard Čech ranks 147. Before him are André Patry, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Aly Khan, Fred Buscaglione, Dmitry Gulia, and Lottie Dod. After him are The Great Gama, Willem Elsschot, Frank Elmore Ross, Hasan Saka, Joseph Wendel, and Pedro Arispe.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 565 out of 1,200. Before him are Ivan Olbracht (1882), Jakub Jan Ryba (1765), Helena Fibingerová (1949), Erich Srbek (1908), Anton Heida (1878), and Jan Graubner (1948). After him are Leo Slezak (1873), Rudolf Friml (1879), Eliška Krásnohorská (1847), Helena Suková (1965), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), and Antonín Vodička (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Czechia

Among mathematicians born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 6. Before him are Kurt Gödel (1906), Leo Perutz (1882), Johannes Widmann (1460), Johann Radon (1887), and Olga Taussky-Todd (1906).

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