MATHEMATICIAN

Marian Rejewski

1905 - 1980

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Marian Adam Rejewski (Polish: [ˈmarjan rɛˈjɛfskʲi] ; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence. Over the next nearly seven years, Rejewski and fellow mathematician-cryptologists Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, developed techniques and equipment for decrypting the Enigma ciphers, even as the Germans introduced modifications to their Enigma machines and encryption procedures. Rejewski's contributions included the cryptologic card catalog and the cryptologic bomb. Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the Poles shared their achievements with French and British counterparts who had made no progress, enabling Britain to begin reading German Enigma ciphers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Rejewski is the 152nd most popular mathematician (down from 126th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Poland (down from 175th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Marian Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who broke the German Enigma machine in 1932.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marian Rejewski ranks 152 out of 1,004. Before him are George Pólya, Lars Ahlfors, Joseph Liouville, John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, and Vincenzo Viviani. After him are Andrey Markov, Colin Maclaurin, Michel Rolle, Oliver Heaviside, Aloysius Lilius, and Autolycus of Pitane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Marian Rejewski ranks 37. Before him are Félix Houphouët-Boigny, George H. Hitchings, Raymond Cattell, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Max Schmeling, and Michael Powell. After him are Helen Wills, Jean Vigo, Carl Gustav Hempel, Shojiro Sugimura, Dalton Trumbo, and Severo Ochoa. Among people deceased in 1980, Marian Rejewski ranks 44. Before him are C. P. Snow, Hans Asperger, Gregory Bateson, Robert Whittaker, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Bill Evans. After him are Kim Jae-gyu, Gustav Wagner, Lewis Milestone, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Mae West, and Tadao Takayama.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 190 out of 1,694. Before him are Miroslav Klose (1978), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933). After him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Daniel Libeskind (1946), and Ernst Kummer (1810).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Marian Rejewski ranks 4. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Stefan Banach (1892), and Leopold Kronecker (1823). After him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Felix Hausdorff (1868), 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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