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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 986,305 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Stefan Banach is the 92nd most popular mathematician (up from 101st in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Poland (up from 118th 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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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stefan Banach ranks 92 out of 823. Before him are Paul Erdős, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Alexander Friedmann, Anthemius of Tralles, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Émilie du Châtelet. After him are Leopold Kronecker, Joan Clarke, Siméon Denis Poisson, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Christian Goldbach, and Thomas Harriot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Stefan Banach ranks 33. Before him are George Paget Thomson, Mátyás Rákosi, Erhard Milch, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ernst Lubitsch, and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. After him are William P. Murphy, Robert Ritter von Greim, Darius Milhaud, Shirō Ishii, Andrey Yeryomenko, and Arthur Friedenreich. Among people deceased in 1945, Stefan Banach ranks 46. Before him are Roland Freisler, Hans Fischer, Josef Kramer, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Käthe Kollwitz, and Tadamichi Kuribayashi. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Robert Ritter von Greim, Karl-Otto Koch, Karl Hanke, Theodore Dreiser, and Franz Werfel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stefan Banach ranks 101 out of 1,454. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Marie Walewska (1786), and Kurt Daluege (1897). After him are Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Karl Hanke (1903), Alfred Döblin (1878), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881).

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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), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).

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