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Vera T. Sós

1930 - 2023

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Vera Turán Sós (11 September 1930 – 22 March 2023) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in number theory and combinatorics. She was a student and close collaborator of both Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. She also collaborated frequently with her husband Pál Turán, an analyst, number theorist, and combinatorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera T. Sós has received more than 48,678 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vera T. Sós is the 641st most popular mathematician (up from 714th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 512th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vera T. Sós ranks 641 out of 1,004Before her are Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Mark Krein, Paul Neményi, Paul Gordan, Harold Hotelling, and Georg Stiernhielm. After her are Claude Chevalley, Ludwig Bieberbach, David Gregory, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Kātyāyana, and Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Vera T. Sós ranks 335Before her are William R. Pogue, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, André Lerond, Hector Bianciotti, Marisol Escobar, and Jean-Louis de Rambures. After her are Justinas Marcinkevičius, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Estela de Carlotto, Bobby Bland, Odetta, and Anthony Harvey. Among people deceased in 2023, Vera T. Sós ranks 370Before her are Richard Moll, Simone Segouin, Janusz Gortat, Waldemar Victorino, Rafiq Nishonov, and András Adorján. After her are Jacques Gaillot, Fiona Graham, Basil van Rooyen, Dimitrie Popescu, Alberto Mario González, and Peter Simonischek.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Vera T. Sós ranks 453 out of 1,077Before her are Antal Nagy (1944), Kató Lomb (1909), László Paskai (1927), Moshe Sanbar (1926), András Adorján (1950), and Katalin Szőke (1935). After her are Imre Frivaldszky (1799), Béla Sárosi (1919), Zsuzsa Koncz (1946), Gyula Breyer (1893), Tamás Vásáry (1933), and József Tóth (1929).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Vera T. Sós ranks 18Before her are Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Lipót Fejér (1880), and Rózsa Péter (1905). After her are Alfréd Rényi (1921), Alfréd Haar (1885), Marcel Riesz (1886), Cornelius Lanczos (1893), George Szekeres (1911), and Béla Bollobás (1943).