MATHEMATICIAN

Albert W. Tucker

1905 - 1995

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Albert William Tucker (28 November 1905 – 25 January 1995) was a Canadian mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert W. Tucker has received more than 297,057 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert W. Tucker is the 417th most popular mathematician (up from 679th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Canada (up from 343rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Albert W. Tucker ranks 417 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Ludwig Siegel, Thomas Fincke, László Lovász, Abraham Robinson, Henryk Zygalski, and Georgy Voronoy. After him are Al-Sijzi, Helmut Hasse, Michael O. Rabin, Vladimir Smirnov, Gerhard Gentzen, and Al-Samawal al-Maghribi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Albert W. Tucker ranks 129. Before him are Henry Koster, Hans Freudenthal, Pierre Brasseur, Ivan Eklind, Nathan Homer Knorr, and Eduard Tubin. After him are Franz König, Frits Philips, Luigi Zampa, László Benedek, Shojiro Sugimura, and Robert Donat. Among people deceased in 1995, Albert W. Tucker ranks 116. Before him are Annie M. G. Schmidt, Erik Nilsson, Matti Pellonpää, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Vladimír Dzurilla, and Viktoria Brezhneva. After him are Alberto Burri, Edith Pargeter, Józef Maria Bocheński, James Samuel Coleman, James Herriot, and Jerry Garcia.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Albert W. Tucker ranks 158 out of 1,622. Before him are Donald Arnold (1935), James Gosling (1955), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Brian Kernighan (1942), Fay Wray (1907), and Hayden Christensen (1981). After him are John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Denys Arcand (1941), Shawn Mendes (1998), Brian Mulroney (1939), Raymond Massey (1896), and Jeff Wall (1946).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Albert W. Tucker ranks 3. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), and Simon Newcomb (1835). After him are Louis Nirenberg (1925), Edward Routh (1831), Robert Langlands (1936), William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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