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Frigyes Riesz

1880 - 1956

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Frigyes Riesz (Hungarian: Riesz Frigyes, pronounced [ˈriːs ˈfriɟɛʃ], sometimes spelled as Frederic; 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 129,565 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Frigyes Riesz is the 498th most popular mathematician (down from 424th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 265th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Frigyes Riesz ranks 498 out of 823. Before him are John Pell, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Jacques Herbrand, Louis Bachelier, Georg Mohr, and Jacques Ozanam. After him are Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, W. V. D. Hodge, William Kingdon Clifford, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Julius Petersen, and Roy Kerr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Frigyes Riesz ranks 116. Before him are Fritz Bleyl, Hans Hofmann, Lytton Strachey, Carl Schuricht, W. C. Fields, and Jeannette Rankin. After him are Tom Mix, Richard Oswald, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Azim Azimzade, Joseph Grew, and Samuel Jones. Among people deceased in 1956, Frigyes Riesz ranks 108. Before him are Eduardo Lonardi, Tommy Dorsey, Leo Baeck, Paul Renner, Vladimir Filatov, and Auguste Chevalier. After him are Jean Hersholt, Preston Tucker, Austin Osman Spare, Jehanne D'Alcy, Lewis Terman, and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Frigyes Riesz ranks 336 out of 866. Before him are Paul Halmos (1916), Imre Frivaldszky (1799), Tibor Déry (1894), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Gyula Breyer (1893), and Lili Kraus (1903). After him are István Kertész (1929), Andrew G. Vajna (1944), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Eugen Varga (1879), Milán Füst (1888), and Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun (1677).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Frigyes Riesz ranks 10. Before him are Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Peter Lax (1926), and Paul Halmos (1916). After him are Dénes Kőnig (1884), Pál Turán (1910), Rózsa Péter (1905), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Alfréd Rényi (1921), and Alfréd Haar (1885).

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