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Edward Kasner

1878 - 1955

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Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jewish person appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University. Subsequently, he became an adjunct professor in 1906, and a full professor in 1910, at the university. Differential geometry was his main field of study. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Kasner is the 321st most popular mathematician (up from 374th in 2019), the 2,622nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,936th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edward Kasner ranks 321 out of 1,004. Before him are Grigory Margulis, Guo Shoujing, Alain Connes, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Pietro Cataldi, and Willem de Sitter. After him are Lennart Carleson, Kunihiko Kodaira, Edward Waring, Georg Alexander Pick, Emil Artin, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant.

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Among people born in 1878, Edward Kasner ranks 68. Before him are Angelica Balabanoff, Louis Camille Maillard, Herbert Chapman, Yosano Akiko, Paul Pelliot, and Upton Sinclair. After him are Hans Ledwinka, Franz Schreker, Lionel Barrymore, Felix Bernstein, Stephen Timoshenko, and Mohammad Ali Jauhar. Among people deceased in 1955, Edward Kasner ranks 56. Before him are Olga Khokhlova, Pierre Levegh, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Henri Delaunay, Nicolas de Staël, and Erich Brandenberger. After him are Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Cy Young, Kim Seong-su, Ivan Šubašić, Tommy Burns, and Adolfo de la Huerta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Kasner ranks 2,622 out of 20,380. Before him are Donna Murphy (1959), Frank Borman (1928), William Carlos Williams (1883), Danny Elfman (1953), Cardi B (1992), and John Harvey Kellogg (1852). After him are John de Lancie (1948), Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Kirsten Dunst (1982), Joan Rivers (1933), and Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Edward Kasner ranks 20. Before him are Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Lloyd Shapley (1923), John G. Thompson (1932), Jesse Douglas (1897), Robert Axelrod (1943), and Stephen Smale (1930). After him are Martin Davis (1928), John Milnor (1931), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Sal Khan (1976), and Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944).

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