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Max August Zorn

1906 - 1993

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Max August Zorn (German: [tsɔʁn]; June 6, 1906 – March 9, 1993) was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, and ordered sets amongst others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max August Zorn has received more than 75,205 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Max August Zorn is the 548th most popular mathematician (up from 557th in 2019), the 3,612th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,515th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Max August Zorn ranks 548 out of 1,004. Before him are Luis Caffarelli, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Louis Nirenberg, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Aleksandr Khinchin, and Pierre Fatou. After him are John Tate, Chen Jingrun, Jacques Herbrand, Al-Qalqashandi, Ronald Graham, and Max Dehn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Max August Zorn ranks 193. Before him are Alex Thépot, Igor Moiseyev, Paolo Pedretti, S. D. Burman, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, and Juan Carlos Calvo. After him are Charles Malik, Renate Müller, Walter Legge, Yakov Malik, Penn Nouth, and Óscar Domínguez. Among people deceased in 1993, Max August Zorn ranks 139. Before him are Hans Christian Blech, Valentina Grizodubova, Wilhelm Gliese, Yuri Bezmenov, Mick Ronson, and Mieczysław Horszowski. After him are Bertus Aafjes, Erich Leinsdorf, Steve James, Emile Ardolino, Evelyne Hall, and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max August Zorn ranks 3,612 out of 7,253. Before him are Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg (1575), Hans Multscher (1400), Prince Arnulf of Bavaria (1852), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), and Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866). After him are Markus Merk (1962), Winfried Kretschmann (1948), Johann Walter (1496), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1884), and Hermann Prey (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Max August Zorn ranks 67. Before him are Gerd Faltings (1954), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Otto Hölder (1859), Martin Ohm (1792), Max Noether (1921), and Heinrich Martin Weber (1842). After him are Max Dehn (1878), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), and Grete Hermann (1901).

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