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Felix Hausdorff

1868 - 1942

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Felix Hausdorff ( HOWS-dorf, HOWZ-dorf; November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician, pseudonym Paul Mongré (à mon gré (Fr.) = "according to my taste"), who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis. Hausdorff was Jewish, and life became difficult for him and his family after the Kristallnacht of 1938. The next year he initiated efforts to emigrate to the United States, but was unable to make arrangements to receive a research fellowship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Hausdorff has received more than 281,255 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Felix Hausdorff is the 167th most popular mathematician (down from 146th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Poland (down from 188th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Felix Hausdorff was a mathematician who is most famous for his work in set theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Felix Hausdorff ranks 167 out of 1,004. Before him are Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, André Weil, James Joseph Sylvester, Pierre Bouguer, and George Pólya. After him are René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, and Marcel Grossmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Felix Hausdorff ranks 46. Before him are Alfred Weber, Pompeu Fabra, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kantarō Suzuki, Émile Bernard, and Édouard Vuillard. After him are Koloman Moser, Gustav Noske, S. P. L. Sørensen, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Princess Anastasia of Montenegro. Among people deceased in 1942, Felix Hausdorff ranks 37. Before him are Prince George, Duke of Kent, Jozef Gabčík, Grant Wood, Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, and Chen Duxiu. After him are Jan Kubiš, Yosano Akiko, Tamon Yamaguchi, Daniil Kharms, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Leopold Mandić.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Felix Hausdorff ranks 225 out of 1,694. Before him are Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), and Hans Modrow (1928). After him are Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Ernst Toller (1893), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), and Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Felix Hausdorff ranks 7. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), and Wacław Sierpiński (1882). After him are Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887).

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