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MATHEMATICIAN

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 146,283 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Kazimierz Kuratowski is the 228th most popular mathematician (down from 197th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 258th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 228 out of 823Before him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Seymour Papert, Lloyd Shapley, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Thomas Abbt, and L. E. J. Brouwer. After him are Anatoly Fomenko, Henri Cartan, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Giovanni Ceva, Édouard Roche, and Al-Khazini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 67Before him are Friedrich Hund, Henri de Lubac, Soghomon Tehlirian, Michael Balint, Kenji Miyazawa, and Karl August Wittfogel. After him are Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Boris Skossyreff, and Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1980, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 68Before him are Patrick Depailler, Mohammad Hatta, Ernő Gerő, Filipp Golikov, Yigal Allon, and Tex Avery. After him are John Mauchly, Tôn Đức Thắng, Hugh Griffith, Pascual Jordan, Ida Kamińska, and Ernst Busch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 293 out of 1,454Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Jean Epstein (1897), and Adam Czerniaków (1880). After him are Martin Agricola (1486), Casimir II the Just (1138), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), Hans Bellmer (1902), and Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 12Before him are Hermann Grassmann (1809), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887). After him are Alfred Korzybski (1879), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Richard Courant (1888), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Klaus Roth (1925).