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Alberto Calderón

1920 - 1998

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Alberto Pedro Calderón (September 14, 1920 – April 16, 1998) was an Argentine mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, where Calderón and his mentor, the analyst Antoni Zygmund, developed the theory of singular integral operators. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Calderón has received more than 173,887 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alberto Calderón is the 878th most popular mathematician (down from 845th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 584th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alberto Calderón ranks 878 out of 1,004. Before him are Salomon Bochner, Anatoly Karatsuba, Henryk Iwaniec, James Arthur, Volker Strassen, and Barry Mazur. After him are George Lusztig, Philip Hall, Henri Padé, Paul Koebe, Avi Wigderson, and Edward Charles Titchmarsh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Alberto Calderón ranks 386. Before him are Sverre Farstad, Arthur Wint, Ingemar Hedberg, Keith Andes, Václav Havel, and Doug Serrurier. After him are Kelpo Gröndahl, Hemanta Mukherjee, Aleksandar Atanacković, G. D. Spradlin, Jose Tomas Sanchez, and Gail Halvorsen. Among people deceased in 1998, Alberto Calderón ranks 273. Before him are Jesús Loroño, Ernst Ising, Eldridge Cleaver, Naim Talu, Justin Fashanu, and Louis Chaillot. After him are Tadeusz Ślusarski, Valerio Perentin, Norman Fell, Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, Fred Davis, and Daniel Massey.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Calderón ranks 579 out of 1,154. Before him are Ramón Abeledo (1937), Luciano Vietto (1993), Gustavo Alfaro (1962), Ramón Quiroga (1950), Franco Armani (1986), and Alberto Zozaya (1908). After him are Nelson Vivas (1969), Néstor Lorenzo (1966), Pedro Monzón (1962), Sergio Vázquez (1965), Héctor Rossetto (1922), and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Argentina

Among mathematicians born in Argentina, Alberto Calderón ranks 2. Before him are Luis Caffarelli (1948). After him are Alicia Dickenstein (1955).

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