MATHEMATICIAN

Nikolai Luzin

1883 - 1950

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Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin (also spelled Lusin; Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ˈluzʲɪn] ; 9 December 1883 – 28 February 1950) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow mathematicians of the first half of the 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Luzin has received more than 159,373 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Luzin is the 436th most popular mathematician (down from 387th in 2019), the 1,031st most popular biography from Russia (down from 935th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nikolai Luzin ranks 436 out of 1,004. Before him are Mihailo Petrović, Pierre Vernier, Martin Kutta, Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, and Thomas Bradwardine. After him are Athir al-Din al-Abhari, Jim Simons, Paul Lévy, Goro Shimura, Pierre Wantzel, and Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Nikolai Luzin ranks 121. Before him are Indalecio Prieto, Ota Benga, Ramón Fonst, Andrei Bubnov, Fyodor Sergeyev, and Johann Kremer. After him are Prince Arthur of Connaught, István Friedrich, Václav Talich, Richard Ruoff, Enrico Toselli, and Arnold Bax. Among people deceased in 1950, Nikolai Luzin ranks 82. Before him are Ulrich Graf, Walton Walker, Kazys Grinius, Edgar Lee Masters, Kurt Schmitt, and Yi Kwang-su. After him are Juan Botasso, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Al Jolson, Raymond Sommer, Gustaf John Ramstedt, and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Luzin ranks 1,031 out of 3,761. Before him are Theophan the Recluse (1815), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), Fyodor Sergeyev (1883), Ivan Smirnov (1881), Vasily Golovnin (1776), and Franz Overbeck (1837). After him are Matvey Blanter (1903), Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809), Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (1895), Duke Peter of Oldenburg (1812), Stanislav Cherchesov (1963), and Natalia Gutman (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Nikolai Luzin ranks 29. Before him are Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Otto Hesse (1811), Yakov Sinai (1935), Grigory Margulis (1946), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), and Alfred Clebsch (1833). After him are Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Carl Neumann (1832), Nina Bari (1901), and Aleksandr Khinchin (1894).

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