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Pavel Urysohn

1898 - 1924

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Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (in Russian: Па́вел Самуи́лович Урысо́н; 3 February, 1898 – 17 August, 1924) was a Soviet mathematician who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's metrization theorem and Urysohn's lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology. His name is also commemorated in the terms Urysohn universal space, Fréchet–Urysohn space, Menger–Urysohn dimension and Urysohn integral equation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Urysohn has received more than 48,514 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pavel Urysohn is the 494th most popular mathematician (down from 469th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 429th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pavel Urysohn ranks 494 out of 1,004. Before him are Friedrich Hirzebruch, René de Saussure, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Johannes de Muris, Joseph Raphson, and Stanisław Leśniewski. After him are Pierre François Verhulst, Theon of Smyrna, John Playfair, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Johann Benedict Listing, and John Hadley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Pavel Urysohn ranks 131. Before him are Lucius D. Clay, Ben Shahn, Ira Sprague Bowen, Ada Blackjack, Walther von Hünersdorff, and Leopold Okulicki. After him are Helen B. Taussig, Erich Bey, Dámaso Alonso, Anthony McAuliffe, Luís Carlos Prestes, and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay. Among people deceased in 1924, Pavel Urysohn ranks 71. Before him are Marie Corelli, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Florence Harding, Cipriano Castro, Emma Eckstein, and Jacob Israël de Haan. After him are Xaver Scharwenka, Charles Villiers Stanford, Klara Zamenhof, Wilhelm Roux, Curt von Bardeleben, and Kuroda Seiki.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Pavel Urysohn ranks 475 out of 1,365. Before him are Yozhef Sabo (1940), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Pinhas Lavon (1904), Alexander Mosolov (1900), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), and Alexander Vertinsky (1889). After him are Nina Bocharova (1924), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Alexander Potebnja (1835), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Alexander Trepov (1862), and Les Kurbas (1887).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Pavel Urysohn ranks 14. Before him are Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), and Alfred J. Lotka (1880). After him are Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Mark Krein (1907), Jerzy Różycki (1909), Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), and Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939).

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