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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 577,742 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Rejewski is the 124th most popular mathematician (up from 126th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 150th 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 124 out of 823. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich, Émile Borel, Aloysius Lilius, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Andrew Wiles. After him are Brook Taylor, Henri Lebesgue, Herbert A. Hauptman, Menelaus of Alexandria, Oliver Heaviside, and Andrey Markov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Marian Rejewski ranks 29. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Emilio Segrè, Władysław Gomułka, Max Schmeling, Dalton Trumbo, and Franz Ziereis. After him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Gerard Kuiper, Jean Vigo, Nevill Francis Mott, and Ulf von Euler. Among people deceased in 1980, Marian Rejewski ranks 41. Before him are Hans Morgenthau, Willard Libby, Alexander Oparin, William Howard Stein, Mae West, and Alejo Carpentier. After him are Fritz Strassmann, Vinicius de Moraes, Seretse Khama, Ludwig Guttmann, Lewis Milestone, and Kim Jae-gyu.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 162 out of 1,454. Before him are Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Władysław Anders (1892), and Reinhard Selten (1930). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), and Albert Sabin (1906).

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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 Felix Hausdorff (1868), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).

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