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Karol Borsuk

1905 - 1982

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Karol Borsuk (8 May 1905 – 24 January 1982) was a Polish mathematician. His main area of interest was topology. He made significant contributions to shape theory, a term which he coined. He also obtained important results in functional analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karol Borsuk is the 609th most popular mathematician (down from 570th in 2019), the 791st most popular biography from Poland (down from 781st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karol Borsuk ranks 609 out of 1,004. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane, Boris Delaunay, Efim Zelmanov, Nicomedes, Jürgen Moser, and Sulochana Gadgil. After him are Marc-Antoine Parseval, James Ivory, Al-Birjandi, Shigefumi Mori, David Ruelle, and Michael Freedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Karol Borsuk ranks 203. Before him are Walter Zapp, Carlos Riolfo, Eugen Sänger, Luigi Zampa, István Avar, and Gustav Wiederkehr. After him are Abeid Karume, Nise da Silveira, Siaka Stevens, Tommy Dorsey, Aurelio González, and John Kuck. Among people deceased in 1982, Karol Borsuk ranks 148. Before him are Alfredo Ovando Candía, Christian Schad, Fritz Laband, Alexandre Alexeieff, Olle Hellbom, and Leonid Utyosov. After him are Hubert Lanz, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Juhan Aavik, Willy Busch, Adoniran Barbosa, and Vladimir Smirnov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karol Borsuk ranks 791 out of 1,694. Before him are Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Hypatius Pociej (1541), Władysław Grabski (1874), Theodor Kullak (1818), Gerhard Stöck (1911), and Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885). After him are Michał Sopoćko (1888), Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Johann Dzierzon (1811), Jan Olszewski (1930), Franceska Mann (1917), and Stanisław Mikulski (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Karol Borsuk ranks 26. Before him are Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Abraham Robinson (1918), Emil Leon Post (1897), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853). After him are Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Heinz Hopf (1894), Jan Śniadecki (1756), Paul Gordan (1837), Moritz Pasch (1843), and Otto Toeplitz (1881).

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