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Samuel Eilenberg

1913 - 1998

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Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Eilenberg is the 558th most popular mathematician (down from 484th in 2019), the 715th most popular biography from Poland (down from 679th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 558 out of 1,004. Before him are Ingrid Daubechies, Al-Nayrizi, Johann Baptist Cysat, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Johann Samuel König, and Athir al-Din al-Abhari. After him are Jean-Étienne Montucla, Pál Turán, D. R. Kaprekar, Solomon Lefschetz, Isadore Singer, and Louis J. Mordell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 172. Before him are Otto Wichterle, Maria Tănase, Edith Pargeter, René Schneider, Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, and Gustaaf Deloor. After him are Sándor Tarics, Gangubai Hangal, Salvador Artigas, Yakov Zak, Salvador Espriu, and Julius Döpfner. Among people deceased in 1998, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 146. Before him are Otto Wichterle, Theodor Oberländer, Eric Ambler, Qian Zhongshu, Louis Dumont, and Joan Brossa. After him are Edwige Feuillère, Anatoly Rybakov, Keisuke Kinoshita, Antonio Saura, Haroun Tazieff, and Gérard Grisey.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 715 out of 1,694. Before him are Helena Modjeska (1840), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Miliza Korjus (1905), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Wojciech Gerson (1831), and Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866). After him are Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729), Leo Baeck (1873), Ernst Degner (1931), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), and Uwe Johnson (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Samuel Eilenberg ranks 24. Before him are Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Abraham Robinson (1918), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Theodor Kaluza (1885). After him are Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Karol Borsuk (1905), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Heinz Hopf (1894), Jan Śniadecki (1756), and Paul Gordan (1837).

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