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MATHEMATICIAN

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 245,006 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Wacław Sierpiński is the 166th most popular mathematician (down from 162nd in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Poland (down from 206th in 2019) and the 7th 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 166 out of 823Before him are Étienne Bézout, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Mary Jackson, Rafael Bombelli, Jost Bürgi, and Jean Gaston Darboux. After him are Zu Chongzhi, Colin Maclaurin, Conon of Samos, André Weil, Wang Chong, and René Thom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 55Before him are B. Traven, Lluís Companys, Éamon de Valera, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandra Ekster, and Johnny Torrio. After him are John Bauer, Petre Dumitrescu, Jean Giraudoux, Yusef of Morocco, Pavel Florensky, and Yakub Kolas. Among people deceased in 1969, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 37Before him are Itzhak Stern, B. Traven, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Alexandra David-Néel, Boris Karloff, and Robert Taylor. After him are Walter Christaller, Raymond A. Spruance, Eberhard von Mackensen, Vjekoslav Luburić, Allen Dulles, and Zakir Husain.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 220 out of 1,454Before him are Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Ernst Toller (1893), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Muazzez Sultan (1628), and Ferdinand Cohn (1828). After him are Emil Ludwig (1881), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Ernst Kummer (1810), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Agnieszka Holland (1948), and Moritz Moszkowski (1854).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Wacław Sierpiński ranks 7Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Felix Hausdorff (1868), and Hermann Grassmann (1809). After him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), and Alfred Korzybski (1879).