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MATHEMATICIAN

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 88,928 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pál Turán is the 575th most popular mathematician (up from 635th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 415th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pál Turán ranks 575 out of 823Before him are Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, William Burnside, Gino Fano, Hillel Furstenberg, Nilakantha Somayaji, and Edmund Gunter. After him are Ilia Vekua, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Yuri Manin, Luigi Bianchi, Rózsa Péter, and Ronald Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pál Turán ranks 190Before him are Arsenie Boca, Francisco Coloane, Gaston Defferre, Viggo Kampmann, Edwin O. Reischauer, and Fei Xiaotong. After him are Lupita Tovar, Elmar Klos, Alicia Markova, Gus Hall, Robert Cummings, and Willy Ronis. Among people deceased in 1976, Pál Turán ranks 141Before him are Jimmy Reed, Hamit Kaplan, Floyd Council, Conduelo Píriz, Viggo Kampmann, and Hidetsugu Yagi. After him are Stanley Baker, Walter Piston, Yashpal, Maurice Dobb, Rudi Fischer, and Mariano Ospina Pérez.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Pál Turán ranks 383 out of 866Before him are János Starker (1924), Ervin Zádor (1935), Paul von Jankó (1856), Mária Mednyánszky (1901), Gyula Károlyi (1871), and Lajos Czeizler (1893). After him are László Kovács (1939), Alexandre Trauner (1906), Rózsa Péter (1905), Catherine Schell (1944), Zsuzsa Koncz (1946), and László Paskai (1927).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Pál Turán ranks 12Before him are John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Peter Lax (1926), Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), and Dénes Kőnig (1884). After him are Rózsa Péter (1905), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Alfréd Rényi (1921), Alfréd Haar (1885), Lipót Fejér (1880), and Cornelius Lanczos (1893).