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Leo Perutz

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Also known as Leopold Perutz

Austrian mathematician and writer (1882-1957)

Person · Open Library

Born
1882
Died
1957
Works
94

Top works

  • Zwischen neun und neun
  • Ben teshaʻ le-teshaʻ
  • Die Reise nach Pressburg
  • Ba-lailah mi-taḥat le-gesher ha-even
  • Švédský jezdec

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1916-08-24
Active to
1993-07-14
chansonchanson françaisechanson à texteeuropeanfrancefrançais

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
23
Total plays
672

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Leo+Perutz">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Random Forests

    · 2001 · cited 116,178x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,255x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,988x

  4. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,572x

  5. Bagging predictors

    · 1996 · cited 13,154x

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Key facts

Born
2 November 1882, Prague , Austria-Hungary
Died
25 August 1957 (1957-08-25) (aged 74), Bad Ischl , Austria
Occupations
Novelist; mathematician

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882 – 25 August 1957) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. Born in Prague, he lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine.

According to the biographical note on the Arcade Publishing editions of the English translations of his novels, Leo was a mathematician who formulated an algebraic equation which is named after him; he worked as a statistician for an insurance company. He was related to the biologist Max Perutz.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leo Perutz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.