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Alain Connes

1947 - Today

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Alain Connes (French: [alɛ̃ kɔn]; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Connes has received more than 245,548 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alain Connes is the 327th most popular mathematician (up from 353rd in 2019), the 2,320th most popular biography from France (up from 2,565th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alain Connes ranks 327 out of 1,004. Before him are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and Maurice René Fréchet. After him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, Guidobaldo del Monte, Sergei Sobolev, and Guillaume Postel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Connes ranks 178. Before him are Aleksander Krupa, Jaume Cabré, Aad de Mos, Greg Lake, James Dyson, and Sergio Badilla Castillo. After him are Malam Bacai Sanhá, Mario Aurelio Poli, Godfrey Chitalu, Mary Simon, Ben Cross, and Philippe Herreweghe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Connes ranks 2,320 out of 6,770. Before him are Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), Henri Duparc (1848), Catherine Breillat (1948), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Henry Beaufort (1374), and Honoré d'Urfé (1567). After him are Louison Bobet (1925), Jean de Chelles (1200), Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Theobald I, Count of Blois (910), and André Téchiné (1943).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Alain Connes ranks 55. Before him are Joseph Bertrand (1822), Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), and Maurice René Fréchet (1878). After him are René-Louis Baire (1874), Guillaume Postel (1510), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), and Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797).

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