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MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Gelfond

1906 - 1968

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Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (Russian: Алекса́ндр О́сипович Ге́льфонд; 24 October 1906 – 7 November 1968) was a Soviet mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Gelfond has received more than 50,601 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alexander Gelfond is the 620th most popular mathematician (up from 629th in 2019), the 1,447th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,394th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexander Gelfond ranks 620 out of 823Before him are David Ruelle, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Đuro Kurepa, Oswald Veblen, Federico Commandino, and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies. After him are Grete Hermann, Ennio de Giorgi, Heinz Hopf, Alfréd Rényi, Olga Taussky-Todd, and James Ivory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alexander Gelfond ranks 229Before him are Peter Carl Goldmark, Charles Malik, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Wolfgang Staudte, Boris Papandopulo, and Georges Ronsse. After him are Tony Accardo, Milutin Ivković, Olga Taussky-Todd, Alf Andersen, Abdylas Maldybaev, and Rudolf Krčil. Among people deceased in 1968, Alexander Gelfond ranks 140Before him are Charles Bacon, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Edna Ferber, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Little Walter, and Ugo Frigerio. After him are Harry Stenqvist, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Naima Wifstrand, Abel Bonnard, Franchot Tone, and Walter Tewksbury.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Gelfond ranks 1,447 out of 3,262Before him are Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Teffi (1872), Maria Itkina (1932), Aleksandr Abdulov (1953), and Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852). After him are Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946), Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Anna Yegorova (1916), Yury Trifonov (1925), and Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alexander Gelfond ranks 40Before him are Boris Delaunay (1890), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Aleksey Krylov (1863), and Jürgen Moser (1928). After him are Carl Neumann (1832), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), and Dmitry Grave (1863).