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Alexander Esenin-Volpin

1924 - 2016

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Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin (also written Ésénine-Volpine and Yessenin-Volpin in his French and English publications; Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Есе́нин-Во́льпин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn ˈvolʲpʲɪn] ; May 12, 1924 – March 16, 2016) was a Russian-American poet and mathematician. A dissident, political prisoner and a leader of the Soviet human rights movement, he spent a total of six years incarcerated and repressed by the Soviet authorities in psikhushkas and exile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Esenin-Volpin has received more than 114,256 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alexander Esenin-Volpin is the 686th most popular mathematician (up from 693rd in 2019), the 1,637th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,685th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 686 out of 1,004. Before him are Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, David Gale, and Sylvestre François Lacroix. After him are Edmond Laguerre, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Roy Kerr, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and Jürgen Moser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 299. Before him are Leonard Rosenman, Michael Sela, Lola Albright, Oldřich Lipský, Yvonne Loriod, and Renia Spiegel. After him are Valerio Bacigalupo, Kenny Dorham, Kurt Furgler, Heinz Müller, Ranasinghe Premadasa, and Don Knotts. Among people deceased in 2016, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 293. Before him are Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, Prince Buster, Nina Ponomaryova, and James Joseph Dresnok. After him are Lúcio Lara, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, José Parra Martínez, Muhamed Mujić, Doreen Massey, and Alcindo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 1,637 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), Eduard Malofeyev (1942), Igor Severyanin (1887), Mikhail Zharov (1899), Yuri Ozerov (1921), and Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808). After him are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), Natalya Andreychenko (1956), Vasily Agapkin (1884), Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Igor Larionov (1960), and Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (1903).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 41. Before him are Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Boris Delaunay (1890), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Alexander Gelfond (1906), and Efim Zelmanov (1955). After him are Jürgen Moser (1928), Dmitry Grave (1863), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), and Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900).

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