MATHEMATICIAN

Stefan Banach

1892 - 1945

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Stefan Banach (Polish: [ˈstɛfan ˈbanax] ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires (Theory of Linear Operations), the first monograph on the general theory of functional analysis.Born in Kraków to a family of Goral descent, Banach showed a keen interest in mathematics and engaged in solving mathematical problems during school recess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stefan Banach has received more than 980,075 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Stefan Banach is the 83rd most popular mathematician (up from 92nd in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Poland (up from 101st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Mathematician.

Stefan Banach is most famous for his contributions to the field of mathematics. He made major contributions to the fields of functional analysis, measure theory, and topology.

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  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

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Over the past year Stefan Banach has had the most page views in the with 71,932 views, followed by English (60,133), and German (12,287). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Piedmontese (119.12%), Malagasy (112.62%), and West Frisian (92.61%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stefan Banach ranks 83 out of 1,004. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot, Augustus De Morgan, Andrey Kolmogorov, Jacob Bernoulli, Regiomontanus, and Pappus of Alexandria. After him are Felix Klein, Ctesibius, Alexander Friedmann, Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, and Paul Erdős.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Stefan Banach ranks 24. Before him are Edward Victor Appleton, Ferdinand Schörner, Martin Niemöller, Arthur Honegger, J. Paul Getty, and Mátyás Rákosi. After him are Gregor Strasser, George Paget Thomson, Ernst Lubitsch, William P. Murphy, Shirō Ishii, and Erwin Panofsky. Among people deceased in 1945, Stefan Banach ranks 36. Before him are Hermann Fegelein, Clara Petacci, Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Hácha, Robert Ley, and Hans Fischer. After him are Hans Krebs, Roland Freisler, Giovanni Agnelli, Friedrich Fromm, Francis William Aston, and Ernst Busch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stefan Banach ranks 97 out of 1,694. Before him are Anton Denikin (1872), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Egon Krenz (1937), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Horst Köhler (1943), and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858). After him are Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Pola Negri (1897), and Jan Matejko (1838).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Stefan Banach ranks 2. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924). After him are Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Alfred Korzybski (1879).

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