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Rudolf E. Kálmán

1930 - 2016

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Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán the National Medal of Science on October 7, 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf E. Kálmán is the 341st most popular mathematician (up from 381st in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 261st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 341 out of 1,004. Before him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Julius Plücker, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Lev Pontryagin, Yi Xing, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī. After him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Felix Bernstein, Viggo Brun, Klára Dán von Neumann, and Viktor Bunyakovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 148. Before him are Miljan Miljanić, Dave Sexton, Son Sen, Ken Naganuma, Robert Culp, and Philippe Leroy. After him are John Barth, Paul Poupard, Carolyn Jones, Yves Rocher, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and José Águas. Among people deceased in 2016, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 132. Before him are Meir Dagan, Héctor Babenco, Ernst Nolte, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Alexandre Astruc, and André Courrèges. After him are Einojuhani Rautavaara, Nimr al-Nimr, Tom Kibble, Henry Heimlich, Bob Bennett, and Gregorio Conrado Álvarez.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 219 out of 1,077. Before him are Géza Anda (1921), Márta Mészáros (1931), Josef Dobrovský (1753), Ferenc Gyulay (1799), Stephan Burián von Rajecz (1851), and Imre Schlosser (1889). After him are Teddy Kollek (1911), Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870), Arpad Elo (1903), Ingenuus (200), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), and Lajos Portisch (1937).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 7. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), John G. Kemeny (1926), George Pólya (1887), Peter Lax (1926), and Marcel Grossmann (1878). After him are Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), and Rózsa Péter (1905).

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