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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 143,000 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Samuel Eilenberg is the 509th most popular mathematician (down from 475th in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from Poland (down from 619th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 509 out of 823Before him are Julius Petersen, Roy Kerr, Heinrich Martin Weber, Wilhelm Jordan, Haskell Curry, and Lazarus Fuchs. After him are Issai Schur, Henry Dudeney, Dénes Kőnig, Benedetto Castelli, G. I. Taylor, and Campanus of Novara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 163Before him are Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Lilian Jackson Braun, Gustaaf Deloor, Salvador Espriu, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, and Huang Hua. After him are Tokutaro Ukon, Renato Castellani, Charles Helou, Yaşar Doğu, Georges Candilis, and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt. Among people deceased in 1998, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 132Before him are Hermann Prey, Jon Postel, Bertil Nordahl, Gérard Grisey, Mariano Martín, and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Antonio Saura, Carl Wilson, Jorge Pacheco Areco, Bob Martin, Michèle Arnaud, and Eric Ambler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 689 out of 1,454Before him are Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Karl Decker (1897), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), and Lazarus Fuchs (1833). After him are Janusz Kusociński (1907), August Zaleski (1883), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Rainer Barzel (1924), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), and August Hlond (1881).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 22Before him are Richard Courant (1888), Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), and Lazarus Fuchs (1833). After him are Abraham Robinson (1918), Martin Kutta (1867), Karol Borsuk (1905), Moritz Pasch (1843), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), and Jan Śniadecki (1756).