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Pál Turán

1910 - 1976

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Pál Turán (Hungarian: [ˈpaːl ˈturaːn]; 18 August 1910 – 26 September 1976) also known as Paul Turán, was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in extremal combinatorics. In 1940, because of his Jewish origins, he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to a labour camp in Transylvania, later being transferred several times to other camps. While imprisoned, Turán came up with some of his best theories, which he was able to publish after the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pál Turán has received more than 95,745 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pál Turán is the 539th most popular mathematician (up from 573rd in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pál Turán ranks 539 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Jakob Hermann, Sydney Chapman, Willem 's Gravesande, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. After him are Simon von Stampfer, D. R. Kaprekar, Luis Caffarelli, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Louis Nirenberg, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pál Turán ranks 177. Before him are Arsenie Boca, Ángel Sanz Briz, Paulette Dubost, Lee Wallard, Alfons Maria Stickler, and Ram Manohar Lohia. After him are Stanislaus Kobierski, Maxim Munzuk, László Cseh, Attilio Pavesi, Erkki Aaltonen, and Cahit Arf. Among people deceased in 1976, Pál Turán ranks 134. Before him are Traugott Herr, Armen Ohanian, Lotte Lehmann, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Conduelo Píriz, and Bertha Lutz. After him are Yukio Goto, Juan d'Arienzo, Jean Martinon, Giorgio Ferrini, Walter Piston, and Friedrich Schulz.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Pál Turán ranks 367 out of 1,077. Before him are Éva Székely (1927), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), Eva Gabor (1919), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867), and Móric Esterházy (1881). After him are István Örkény (1912), Lili Kraus (1903), Kálmán Darányi (1886), Kálmán Mészöly (1941), Árpád Weisz (1896), and István Kertész (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Pál Turán ranks 11. Before him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), and Peter Lax (1926). After him are Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Lipót Fejér (1880), and Rózsa Péter (1905).

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