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Kazimierz Kuratowski

1896 - 1980

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Kazimierz Kuratowski (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ kuraˈtɔfskʲi]; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN). Between 1946 and 1953, he served as President of the Polish Mathematical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazimierz Kuratowski is the 267th most popular mathematician (down from 216th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Poland (down from 280th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 267 out of 1,004. Before him are Leo Perutz, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Aristyllus, Al-Khazini, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Lady Byron. After him are Eduard Heine, Jean-Robert Argand, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Jabir ibn Aflah, and Paul Lévy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 64. Before him are Boris Skossyreff, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Heo Jeong, Julien Duvivier, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, and Elsa Triolet. After him are Norodom Suramarit, Kenji Miyazawa, Aleksei Antonov, Karl August Wittfogel, Frederick Browning, and Henri de Lubac. Among people deceased in 1980, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 66. Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz, Ernő Gerő, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Ian Curtis, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, and Filipp Golikov. After him are Walter Dornberger, Tôn Đức Thắng, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Jim Fouché, Hugh Griffith, and Mario Bava.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 307 out of 1,694. Before him are Daniel Olbrychski (1945), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Andreas Schlüter (1660), and Lubomyr Husar (1933). After him are Werner Naumann (1909), Jan Zamoyski (1542), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Józef Bem (1794), and Ida Haendel (1928).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Kazimierz Kuratowski ranks 13. Before him are Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hermann Grassmann (1809). After him are Vitello (1230), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Richard Courant (1888), Klaus Roth (1925), and Michael O. Rabin (1931).

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