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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 67,649 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Max August Zorn is the 559th most popular mathematician (down from 513th in 2019), the 3,522nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,074th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Max August Zorn ranks 559 out of 823. Before him are Johann Baptist Cysat, Michael Freedman, Evgraf Fedorov, Theodosius of Bithynia, Johann Radon, and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. After him are Cahit Arf, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Chen Jingrun, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Dai Zhen, and Beppo Levi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Max August Zorn ranks 198. Before him are Kathleen Kenyon, Mario Soldati, René David, Alex Thépot, Fernando Giudicelli, and Renato Cesarini. After him are Maurice Sachs, Laurens van der Post, Roman Karmen, Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Madeleine Carroll, and Betti Alver. Among people deceased in 1993, Max August Zorn ranks 139. Before him are Andrée Brunet, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Fred Gwynne, Robert Jacobsen, Roy Raymond, and Bertus Aafjes. After him are Sam Wanamaker, Camargo Guarnieri, Guido del Mestri, Masuji Ibuse, Alexandre Trauner, and Elmar Klos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max August Zorn ranks 3,522 out of 6,142. Before him are Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Jacques Mieses (1865), Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg (1774), and Hans Günter Winkler (1926). After him are Hans-Jürgen Dörner (1951), Otto Schily (1932), Eberhard Weber (1940), Dragan Holcer (1945), Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740), and Henry Oldenburg (1619).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Max August Zorn ranks 67. Before him are Martin Ohm (1792), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Gerd Faltings (1954), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Max Noether (1921), and August Leopold Crelle (1780). After him are Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), and Grete Hermann (1901).

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