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MATHEMATICIAN

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; 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 96,321 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Esenin-Volpin is the 696th most popular mathematician, the 1,689th most popular biography from Russia and the 47th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 696 out of 823Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Gladys West, Saharon Shelah, Dmitry Grave, Annie S. D. Maunder, and Stanisław Mazur. After him are Joseph Diez Gergonne, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, William Whiston, Carl Størmer, William Shanks, and Hilda Geiringer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 306Before him are Valerio Bacigalupo, Antonio Creus, Kenneth Noland, Don Knotts, Leonard Rosenman, and Norbert Schemansky. After him are Jean Bartik, Aron Gurevich, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Audouin Dollfus, Lola Albright, and Lia van Leer. Among people deceased in 2016, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 317Before him are Anton Yelchin, Elizabeth Roemer, Eliseo Prado, Luis Alberto Monge, Hermann Kant, and Norbert Schemansky. After him are Sándor Tarics, Alcindo, Valery Khalilov, Caio Júnior, David Padilla, and Charmian Carr.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 1,689 out of 3,262Before him are Michael Lucas (1972), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Bek (1903), Elena Guro (1877), Sergey Urusevsky (1908), and Vladimir Bortko (1946). After him are Vladislav Surkov (1964), Dima Bilan (1981), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Rostislav Plyatt (1908), and Andrei Gavrilov (1955).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alexander Esenin-Volpin ranks 47Before him are Carl Neumann (1832), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), and Dmitry Grave (1863). After him are Eugene Dynkin (1924), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), and Sergey Nikolsky (1905).