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Rózsa Péter

1905 - 1977

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Rózsa Péter, until January 1934 Rózsa Politzer, (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rózsa Péter is the 534th most popular mathematician (up from 612th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 428th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rózsa Péter ranks 534 out of 1,004. Before her are Luis Caffarelli, George David Birkhoff, Julia Robinson, Arnaud Denjoy, Harold Jeffreys, and Richard E. Bellman. After her are Pietro Mengoli, Hans Freudenthal, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Max Dehn, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Jordanus de Nemore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Rózsa Péter ranks 162. Before her are Pierre Brasseur, Harry Harlow, Étienne Mattler, Sanford Meisner, Fumiko Enchi, and Harold Arlen. After her are Hans Freudenthal, Michael Tippett, Jan Gies, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, and Robert Penn Warren. Among people deceased in 1977, Rózsa Péter ranks 121. Before her are Henri Langlois, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Rudolf Vytlačil, E. F. Schumacher, Lūcija Garūta, and Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten. After her are Martí Ventolrà, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Louis Beel, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Neco, and Ivan Fedyuninsky.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rózsa Péter ranks 355 out of 1,077. Before her are Iván Fischer (1951), Pál Losonczi (1919), László Fazekas (1947), Árpád Weisz (1896), Charles Vidor (1900), and József Eötvös (1813). After her are László Polgár (1946), Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894), Béla Király (1912), Péter Szondi (1929), Angéla Németh (1946), and István Kertész (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Rózsa Péter ranks 13. Before her are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), and Endre Szemerédi (1940). After her are Pál Turán (1910), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Lipót Fejér (1880), Alfréd Haar (1885), Alfréd Rényi (1921), and Vera T. Sós (1930).

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