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Hugo Steinhaus, a Common card
Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus was a Polish mathematician and educator.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Hugo Steinhaus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hugo Steinhaus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tomáš Enge. Tomáš Enge 79 · Teresa Carreño 72 · Hugo Steinhaus 68 · Maria Konopnicka 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lazzaro Spallanzani. Lazzaro Spallanzani 19,000 · Hugo Steinhaus 13,000 · Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 8,200 · Fred Lawrence Whipple 5,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, where he helped establish what later became known as the Lwów School of Mathematics.
- He is credited with "discovering" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he gave a notable contribution to functional analysis through the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
- After World War II Steinhaus played an important part in the establishment of the mathematics department at Wrocław University and in the revival of Polish mathematics from the destruction of the war.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hugo Steinhaus article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Hugo Steinhaus
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Hugo Steinhaus in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Teresa CarreñoCommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 65
- Tomáš EngeCommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 58
- Electoral CommissionCommon · History · ATK 72 DEF 65
- Ai KagoCommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 64
- Maria KonopnickaCommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 72
- Mário de AndradeCommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 65
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hugo Steinhaus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
