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Issai Schur

1875 - 1941

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Issai Schur (10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941) was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at the University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer in 1903 and, after a stay at the University of Bonn, professor in 1919. As a student of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, he worked on group representations (the subject with which he is most closely associated), but also in combinatorics and number theory and even theoretical physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Issai Schur is the 500th most popular mathematician (down from 292nd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 58th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Issai Schur ranks 500 out of 1,004. Before him are Simon von Stampfer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Stephen Cole Kleene, Pierre Wantzel, Aleksandr Khinchin, and Friedrich Robert Helmert. After him are Paul Halmos, Ian Stewart, William Kingdon Clifford, Abraham Robinson, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, and John Vitéz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Issai Schur ranks 92. Before him are Eugen Schauman, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Max Abraham, Svetozar Pribićević, Theodor Innitzer, and Henri Callot. After him are Alexandros Nikolopoulos, Marie Marvingt, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, David Hall, Leonor Michaelis, and Avetik Isahakyan. Among people deceased in 1941, Issai Schur ranks 101. Before him are Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Mustafa Shokay, Kurt Hensel, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Fritz-Julius Lemp, and May Ziade. After him are James Stephenson, Grigory Shtern, Maurice Bavaud, Karl Neukirch, Giuseppe Amisani, and Otto Strandman.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Issai Schur ranks 86 out of 368. Before him are Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Napoleon Orda (1807), Ivan Yarkovsky (1844), Ivonka Survilla (1936), and Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Benedykt Dybowski (1833), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Ivan Fyodorov (1510), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), and Zivia Lubetkin (1914).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belarus

Among mathematicians born in Belarus, Issai Schur ranks 2. Before him are Oscar Zariski (1899). After him are Lev Schnirelmann (1905), Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), and Boris Galerkin (1871).

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