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Felix Hausdorff

1868 - 1942

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Felix Hausdorff ( HOWS-dorf, HOWZ-dorf; November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician, pseudonym Paul Mongré (à mon gré (Fr.) = "according to my taste"), who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis. Hausdorff was Jewish, and life became difficult for him and his family after the Kristallnacht of 1938. The next year he initiated efforts to emigrate to the United States, but was unable to make arrangements to receive a research fellowship. On 26 January 1942, Hausdorff, along with his wife and his sister-in-law, died by suicide by taking an overdose of veronal, rather than comply with German orders to move to the Endenich camp, and there suffer the likely implications, about which he held no illusions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Hausdorff is the 177th most popular mathematician (down from 167th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Poland (up from 225th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Felix Hausdorff was a mathematician who is most famous for his work in set theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Felix Hausdorff ranks 177 out of 1,004. Before him are Johannes Trithemius, Wang Chong, Jean-Pierre Serre, Vladimir Arnold, Mary Jackson, and John Pell. After him are Giambattista della Porta, Zoia Ceaușescu, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Étienne Bézout, and Simplicius of Cilicia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Felix Hausdorff ranks 43. Before him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Huo Yuanjia, Scott Joplin, Josephine Bakhita, Stefan George, and Pompeu Fabra. After him are Édouard Vuillard, Magnus Hirschfeld, Eleanor H. Porter, Alexandra David-Néel, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Koloman Moser. Among people deceased in 1942, Felix Hausdorff ranks 35. Before him are Yanka Kupala, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, A. E. Waite, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Hector Guimard. After him are Prince George, Duke of Kent, Tina Modotti, Leopold Berchtold, Felix Weingartner, Jan Kubiš, and Tamon Yamaguchi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Felix Hausdorff ranks 207 out of 1,694. Before him are Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Richard Abegg (1869), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), and Hermann Balck (1893). After him are Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Hans Lammers (1879), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Felix Hausdorff ranks 6. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), and Ernst Kummer (1810). After him are Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).

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