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Wacław Sierpiński

1882 - 1969

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Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (Polish: [ˈvat͡swaf fraɲˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ɕɛrˈpij̃skʲi] ; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wacław Sierpiński has received more than 275,395 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Wacław Sierpiński is the 161st most popular mathematician (up from 166th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Poland (up from 220th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Wacław Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician who is most famous for his work on fractals.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 161 out of 1,004. Before him are Vladimir Arnold, Arthur Cayley, Menelaus of Alexandria, Robert Aumann, Giambattista della Porta, and Simplicius of Cilicia. After him are Alonzo Church, André Weil, James Joseph Sylvester, Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, and Felix Hausdorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 52. Before him are Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Lluís Companys, Éamon de Valera, B. Traven, and Yusef of Morocco. After him are Jean Giraudoux, Petre Dumitrescu, Pavel Florensky, Aleksandra Ekster, Yakub Kolas, and John Bauer. Among people deceased in 1969, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 36. Before him are Josef von Sternberg, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra David-Néel, B. Traven, Sonja Henie, and Enrique Ballestrero. After him are Allen Dulles, Vjekoslav Luburić, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Robert Taylor, Li Zongren, and Boris Karloff.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 215 out of 1,694. Before him are Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Karl Denke (1860), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), and Yisrael Kristal (1903). After him are Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), and Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 6. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), and Ernst Kummer (1810). After him are 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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