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Emil Leon Post

1897 - 1954

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Emil Leon Post (; February 11, 1897 – April 21, 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Leon Post is the 509th most popular mathematician (down from 356th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Poland (down from 517th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Emil Leon Post ranks 509 out of 1,004. Before him are William Kingdon Clifford, Abraham Robinson, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, John Vitéz, Thomas Bradwardine, and Henryk Zygalski. After him are Georgy Voronoy, Theodor Kaluza, Ion Ghica, Richard Hamming, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, and Hilda Geiringer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Emil Leon Post ranks 149. Before him are John Bagot Glubb, Xu Zhimo, August Heissmeyer, Traicho Kostov, Louis Réard, and Gaspar Cassadó. After him are Štefan Tiso, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Mikhail Kovalyov, Bud Abbott, and Richard Hildebrandt. Among people deceased in 1954, Emil Leon Post ranks 77. Before him are Robert H. Jackson, Samuel Jones, Lucien Tesnière, Saburō Kurusu, Yehuda Ashlag, and Rudolf Beran. After him are Theodor Kaluza, Joachim Lemelsen, Clara Westhoff, Jacob Tullin Thams, M. N. Roy, and Édouard Le Roy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Emil Leon Post ranks 655 out of 1,694. Before him are Johannes Thiele (1860), Jan Łaski (1499), Hanna Suchocka (1946), Hans Stuck (1900), Kurt Sanderling (1912), and Władysław Żmuda (1954). After him are Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Leopold Okulicki (1898), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Salomon Morel (1919), Janusz Kusociński (1907), and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Emil Leon Post ranks 22. Before him are Alfred Korzybski (1879), Richard Courant (1888), Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), and Abraham Robinson (1918). After him are Theodor Kaluza (1885), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Karol Borsuk (1905), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), and Heinz Hopf (1894).

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