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Frigyes Riesz

1880 - 1956

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Frigyes Riesz (Hungarian: Riesz Frigyes, pronounced [ˈriːs ˈfriɟɛʃ], sometimes known in English and French as Frederic Riesz; 22 January 1880 – 28 February 1956) was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, as did his younger brother Marcel Riesz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frigyes Riesz has received more than 138,021 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Frigyes Riesz is the 464th most popular mathematician (up from 497th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Hungary (up from 336th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Frigyes Riesz ranks 464 out of 1,004. Before him are Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, William Kingdon Clifford, Adriaan van Roomen, Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, and Yutaka Taniyama. After him are Jean Leray, Eric Temple Bell, Isadore Singer, Hermann Hankel, Raoul Bott, and Daniele Barbaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Frigyes Riesz ranks 105. Before him are Louis Charles Breguet, Fernand Feyaerts, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Marie Stopes, Fritz Bleyl, and Tudor Arghezi. After him are Lytton Strachey, Alfred J. Lotka, Mirza Kuchik Khan, B. C. Forbes, Hans Hofmann, and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside. Among people deceased in 1956, Frigyes Riesz ranks 103. Before him are Samad Vurgun, Harold Bride, Vladimir Obruchev, Louis Rosier, Israel Zolli, and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg. After him are Stan Ockers, Leo Baeck, Paul Renner, Norman L. Bowen, Heinrich Barkhausen, and Jean Hersholt.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Frigyes Riesz ranks 321 out of 1,077. Before him are Árpád Szakasits (1888), Márton Bukovi (1903), László Fazekas (1947), Ferenc Seres (1945), Elizabeth Granowska (1372), and Ján Kadár (1918). After him are Miklós Radnóti (1909), Raoul Bott (1923), Tivadar Puskás (1844), Ottó Bláthy (1860), Catherine Schell (1944), and Friar Julian (1250).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Frigyes Riesz ranks 8. Before him are Paul Erdős (1913), George Pólya (1887), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), and László Lovász (1948). After him are Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Dénes Kőnig (1884), and Paul Halmos (1916).

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