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Kazimierz Kuratowski

1896 - 1980

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Kazimierz Kuratowski (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ kuraˈtɔfskʲi]; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazimierz Kuratowski has received more than 160,064 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Kazimierz Kuratowski is the 216th most popular mathematician (up from 228th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Poland (up from 293rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 216 out of 1,004. Before him are Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Autolycus of Pitane, and Willem de Sitter. After him are Callippus, Michel Chasles, Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, Henry Briggs, and Thomas Abbt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 61. Before him are Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, Elsa Triolet, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, and Ida Noddack. After him are Norodom Suramarit, Jimmy Doolittle, Otto Hofmann, Aleksei Antonov, Julien Duvivier, and Ville Ritola. Among people deceased in 1980, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 58. Before him are Robert Whittaker, Mohammad Hatta, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Patrick Depailler, Walter Dornberger, and Mario Bava. After him are Stanisława Walasiewicz, Tôn Đức Thắng, Ian Curtis, Heinz Linge, Ludwig Guttmann, and Filipp Golikov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 280 out of 1,694. Before him are Edward Gierek (1913), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Leszek the White (1186), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), and Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687). After him are Lilli Palmer (1914), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Henry the Bearded (1163), Moïse Kisling (1891), and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 11. Before him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), and Hermann Schwarz (1843). After him are Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), and Emil Leon Post (1897).

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