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Alain Connes

1947 - Today

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Alain Connes (French: [alɛ̃ kɔn]; born 1 April 1947 in Draguignan) 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 224,888 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Alain Connes is the 353rd most popular mathematician (up from 392nd in 2019), the 2,573rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,623rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alain Connes ranks 353 out of 823. Before him are Eutocius of Ascalon, Ostilio Ricci, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, John G. Thompson, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, and Madhava of Sangamagrama. After him are Maurice René Fréchet, Philipp Frank, Sergei Novikov, James Stirling, Paul Émile Appell, and Michael Maestlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Connes ranks 196. Before him are Murray Perahia, Mesut Yılmaz, Petra Kelly, Noritaka Hidaka, Maria Farantouri, and Bryan Brown. After him are Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Michel Sardou, Thomas Cech, Deborah Lipstadt, Patrice Leconte, and Aleksander Krupa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Connes ranks 2,573 out of 6,011. Before him are Robert de Cotte (1656), Théophile de Viau (1590), Bernard Plantapilosa (841), Armand Trousseau (1801), René Caillié (1799), and Abraham Duquesne (1610). After him are Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Alain Robert (1962), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Albert Robida (1848), Louison Bobet (1925), and Jean Ferrat (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Alain Connes ranks 62. Before him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Paul Lévy (1886), and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735). After him are Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Pierre Vernier (1580), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Christian Kramp (1760), and Pierre Wantzel (1814).

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