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Rudolf E. Kálmán

1930 - 2016

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Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf E. Kálmán has received more than 395,252 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf E. Kálmán is the 302nd most popular mathematician (up from 308th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 200th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 302 out of 823Before him are Nicholas Mercator, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Vitello, Aristyllus, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Pierre Deligne. After him are Theon of Smyrna, Enrico Bombieri, Wilhelm Ackermann, John Edensor Littlewood, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, and Georg Alexander Pick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 152Before him are Ilon Wikland, Oleg Popov, Dani Karavan, Robert Culp, Fritz Wunderlich, and Lina Kostenko. After him are Manuel Marulanda, Michel Rocard, Ernst Albrecht, Marshall Sahlins, Anthony Steffen, and Thomas P. Stafford. Among people deceased in 2016, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 125Before him are Goran Hadžić, Meir Dagan, Isao Tomita, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Oleg Popov, and Bill Nunn. After him are Michel Rocard, Gato Barbieri, Carmen Pereira, Alexandre Astruc, Hassan Al-Turabi, and Richard Adams.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 215 out of 866Before him are Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), Eugene Ormandy (1899), Josef Dobrovský (1753), Arpad Elo (1903), and Alfréd Hajós (1878). After him are Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Antal Doráti (1906), István Dobi (1898), Ödön Lechner (1845), Paul Lukas (1894), and Lajos Portisch (1937).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 5Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), George Pólya (1887), and Marcel Grossmann (1878). After him are John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Peter Lax (1926), Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), and Pál Turán (1910).