MATHEMATICIAN

Alfred Korzybski

1879 - 1950

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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ( ; Polish: [ˈalfrɛt kɔˈʐɨpskʲi]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Many of his ideas were presented in his book Science and Sanity (1933). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Korzybski is the 333rd most popular mathematician (down from 255th in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from Poland (down from 356th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred Korzybski ranks 333 out of 1,004Before him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, René-Louis Baire, Eutocius of Ascalon, Wilhelm Ackermann, Pavel Alexandrov, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Gotthold Eisenstein, Julius Plücker, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Lev Pontryagin, and Yi Xing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alfred Korzybski ranks 70Before him are William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Agrippina Vaganova, Samuel Goldwyn, Ethel Barrymore, and Frederick Schule. After him are Dwight F. Davis, William Fox, René Pottier, Bernhard Schmidt, Henri Wallon, and Aleksandar Tsankov. Among people deceased in 1950, Alfred Korzybski ranks 62Before him are Liane de Pougy, Henry L. Stimson, Grigory Kulik, Abraham Wald, Salvatore Giuliano, and Olaf Stapledon. After him are Adam Rainer, Walter Huston, Henry H. Arnold, Agnes Smedley, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, and Arturo Alessandri.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 400 out of 1,694Before him are Mieszko III the Old (1126), Gustav Flatow (1875), Carl Tausig (1841), Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), and Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785). After him are I. L. Peretz (1852), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile (1140), Barbara Jagiellon (1478), Max von Gallwitz (1852), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Pylyp Orlyk (1672).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Alfred Korzybski ranks 16Before him are Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Vitello (1230), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887). After him are Richard Courant (1888), Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Abraham Robinson (1918), and Emil Leon Post (1897).