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Samuel Eilenberg

1913 - 1998

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Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Eilenberg has received more than 156,724 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Samuel Eilenberg is the 484th most popular mathematician (up from 507th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from Poland (up from 689th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 484 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Samuel König, Lazarus Fuchs, George David Birkhoff, Karl Mollweide, Ion Ghica, and W. V. D. Hodge. After him are David Mumford, Moritz Pasch, Alfred Pringsheim, Friedrich Hirzebruch, René de Saussure, and Jean-Étienne Montucla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 159. Before him are Sebastiano Baggio, Bahi Ladgham, Tadao Horie, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Maria Tănase, and John Garfield. After him are Gisela Mauermayer, Renato Castellani, Eugene Odum, Lewis A. Coser, Salvador Espriu, and John Kitzmiller. Among people deceased in 1998, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 125. Before him are Theodor Oberländer, Jerome Robbins, Louis Dumont, Lia Manoliu, Klaus Tennstedt, and John Chadwick. After him are Keisuke Kinoshita, Qian Zhongshu, Nazim al-Qudsi, Norberto Méndez, Antonio Saura, and Joan Brossa.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 679 out of 1,694. Before him are Günther Pancke (1899), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Robert Kubica (1984), Hermann Rauschning (1887), Edward Lasker (1885), and Maria Dąbrowska (1889). After him are Moritz Pasch (1843), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Otto Finsch (1839), Dorothea of Montau (1347), and Louis Marcoussis (1878).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 24. Before him are Klaus Roth (1925), Richard Courant (1888), Abraham Robinson (1918), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Martin Kutta (1867), and Lazarus Fuchs (1833). After him are Moritz Pasch (1843), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Karol Borsuk (1905), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Jan Śniadecki (1756), and Paul Gordan (1837).

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