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Eduard Čech

1893 - 1960

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Eduard Čech (Czech: [ˈɛduart ˈtʃɛx]; 29 June 1893 – 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. He was the first to publish a proof of Tychonoff's theorem in 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Čech is the 618th most popular mathematician (up from 696th in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 565th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eduard Čech ranks 618 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Birjandi, Shigefumi Mori, David Ruelle, Michael Freedman, Kushyar Gilani, and Martin Ohm. After him are Ilia Vekua, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Alexander Gelfond, Heinrich Martin Weber, René de Saussure, and Alfred Pringsheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Eduard Čech ranks 178. Before him are Ralph Linton, Bugs Moran, Segismundo Casado, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Eugen Schüfftan, and Enrique Peñaranda. After him are Woldemar Hägglund, Amílcar Barbuy, Fatima Jinnah, Walter Noddack, Gyula Breyer, and Arthur Benjamin. Among people deceased in 1960, Eduard Čech ranks 139. Before him are André Patry, Ward Bond, Mitrofan Nedelin, Lottie Dod, Wander Johannes de Haas, and Hisamuddin of Selangor. After him are Wu Lien-teh, Virginia Bolten, Hersch Lauterpacht, Walter Noddack, James Montgomery Flagg, and Igor Grabar.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 482 out of 1,200. Before him are Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Ernst Tugendhat (1930), Vaclav Smil (1943), Ivan Passer (1933), Elmar Klos (1910), and Olga Fikotová (1932). After him are Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), Miroslav Ondříček (1934), August von Pelzeln (1825), and Tadeáš Hájek (1525).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Czechia

Among mathematicians born in Czechia, Eduard Čech ranks 5. Before him are Kurt Gödel (1906), Leo Perutz (1882), Johannes Widmann (1460), and Johann Radon (1887). After him are Olga Taussky-Todd (1906).

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