MATHEMATICIAN

Marian Rejewski

1905 - 1980

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Marian Adam Rejewski (Polish: [ˈmarjan rɛˈjɛfskʲi] ; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence. Over the next nearly seven years, Rejewski and fellow mathematician-cryptologists Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, developed techniques and equipment for decrypting the Enigma ciphers, even as the Germans introduced modifications to their Enigma machines and encryption procedures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marian Rejewski has received more than 634,548 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Marian Rejewski is the 126th most popular mathematician (down from 124th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Poland (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Marian Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who broke the German Enigma machine in 1932.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marian Rejewski ranks 126 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicomachus, Alexis Clairaut, Christopher Clavius, Zu Chongzhi, Hermann Weyl, and Herbert A. Hauptman. After him are Ferdinand von Lindemann, Liu Hui, Étienne Bézout, Colin Maclaurin, Hermann of Reichenau, and Lodovico Ferrari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Marian Rejewski ranks 32. Before him are Władysław Gomułka, Raymond Cattell, Carl Gustav Hempel, Dalton Trumbo, Ulf von Euler, and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. After him are Max Schmeling, Otto Preminger, Dhyan Chand, Nikolai Tikhonov, Enrique Ballestrero, and Franz Ziereis. Among people deceased in 1980, Marian Rejewski ranks 41. Before him are Alejo Carpentier, William Howard Stein, Bill Evans, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Willard Libby, and Yigal Allon. After him are Lewis Milestone, Marcelo Caetano, Mae West, Vinicius de Moraes, Gustav Wagner, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 175 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Potocki (1761), Andrzej Duda (1972), Günther Anders (1902), Isabella Jagiellon (1519), John I Albert (1459), and Albert Marth (1828). After him are Grzegorz Lato (1950), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Günter Blobel (1936), and Benzion Netanyahu (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 4. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), and Leopold Kronecker (1823). After him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Alfred Korzybski (1879).

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