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Hugo Steinhaus

1887 - 1972

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Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (English: HEW-goh STYNE-howss, Polish: [ˈxuɡɔ ˈʂtajnxaws], German: [ˈhuːɡoː ˈʃtaɪnhaʊs]; 14 January 1887 – 25 February 1972) was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), where he helped establish what later became known as the Lwów School of Mathematics. He is credited with "discovering" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he gave a notable contribution to functional analysis through the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Steinhaus has received more than 172,779 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hugo Steinhaus is the 257th most popular mathematician (down from 217th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Poland (down from 280th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hugo Steinhaus ranks 257 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacopo Riccati, Édouard Roche, Abraham Zacuto, Jean-Robert Argand, Alfred Korzybski, and Michael Stifel. After him are Guo Shoujing, Andreas Osiander, Hans Hahn, Adolf Hurwitz, Thomas Simpson, and Emil Artin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Hugo Steinhaus ranks 78. Before him are Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Tetsu Katayama, Vasily Chapayev, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Avery Brundage, and Leonard Bloomfield. After him are Simko Shikak, Paul Wittgenstein, Korechika Anami, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, and Wilhelm Kube. Among people deceased in 1972, Hugo Steinhaus ranks 58. Before him are Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Martiros Saryan, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Neilia Hunter Biden, Matvei Zakharov, and Natalie Clifford Barney. After him are Chen Yi, Aspasia Manos, Prescott Bush, Jules Romains, George Sanders, and Edgar Snow.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hugo Steinhaus ranks 359 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), and Józef Elsner (1769). After him are Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Roman Ingarden (1893), Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), and Lukas Podolski (1985).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Hugo Steinhaus ranks 13. Before him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Alfred Korzybski (1879). After him are Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), and Richard Courant (1888).

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