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Mark Krein

1907 - 1989

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Mark Grigorievich Krein (Ukrainian: Марко́ Григо́рович Крейн, Russian: Марк Григо́рьевич Крейн; 3 April 1907 – 17 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics), the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory. He was born in Kyiv, leaving home at age 17 to go to Odesa. He had a difficult academic career, not completing his first degree and constantly being troubled by anti-Semitic discrimination. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Krein is the 572nd most popular mathematician (up from 636th in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 637th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mark Krein ranks 572 out of 1,004. Before him are Dénes Kőnig, Mikio Sato, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Benjamin Peirce, Evgraf Fedorov, and Max August Zorn. After him are Wilhelm Jordan, Joseph Raphson, Gino Fano, Georg Mohr, Max Noether, and Francesco Barozzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Mark Krein ranks 187. Before him are Géza von Radványi, Edwige Feuillère, Blagoje Marjanović, John Marley, Nicanor Zabaleta, and Helmut Walcha. After him are Jean Carzou, Fritz Szepan, Heikki Savolainen, Victor Capesius, Peggy Ashcroft, and Joseph-Armand Bombardier. Among people deceased in 1989, Mark Krein ranks 146. Before him are Nils Axelsson, Armand Salacrou, Juan Hilario Marrero, Abbie Hoffman, Zinka Milanov, and John J. McCloy. After him are Mouloud Mammeri, Anton Diffring, Alex Thépot, Harry Andrews, Ćamil Sijarić, and Maurice Evans.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mark Krein ranks 514 out of 1,365. Before him are Petro Symonenko (1952), Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), Klim Churyumov (1937), Len Blavatnik (1957), Yakov Zak (1913), and Anatoliy Zlenko (1938). After him are Giacomo Rizzolatti (1937), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Alexander Trepov (1862), Inessa Kravets (1966), Manès Sperber (1905), and Oles Honchar (1918).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Mark Krein ranks 20. Before him are Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), and Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801). After him are Jerzy Różycki (1909), Alexander Ostrowski (1893), Stanisław Mazur (1905), Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), Yuri Linnik (1914), and Maryna Viazovska (1984).

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