1903 - 1995
Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem ("decision problem"), the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alonzo Church has received more than 765,652 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alonzo Church is the 204th most popular mathematician (down from 159th in 2019), the 1,574th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,173rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Mathematician.
Alonzo Church was a logician and mathematician who is most famous for inventing the lambda calculus in the 1930s.
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Among mathematicians, Alonzo Church ranks 204 out of 823. Before him are Édouard Lucas, Georg von Peuerbach, Abu Nasr Mansur, Constantin Carathéodory, Piet Hein, and Lars Ahlfors. After him are Paolo Ruffini, Autolycus of Pitane, Theodorus of Cyrene, Willem de Sitter, S. R. Ranganathan, and Élie Cartan.
1842 - 1891
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 198
1423 - 1461
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 199
960 - 1036
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 200
1873 - 1950
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 201
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 202
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 203
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 204
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 205
360 BC - 290 BC
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 206
465 BC - 398 BC
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 207
1872 - 1934
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 208
1892 - 1972
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 209
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 210
Among people born in 1903, Alonzo Church ranks 69. Before him are Aleksei N. Leontiev, Maud Lewis, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Abul A'la Maududi, Ernest Walton, and Fritz Bauer. After him are Louis Leakey, Bob Hope, Mikhail Kalatozov, Werner Ostendorff, Vladimir Bartol, and Lou Gehrig. Among people deceased in 1995, Alonzo Church ranks 56. Before him are Bob Ross, Lita Grey, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Miklós Rózsa, Ernest Walton, and Mária Telkes. After him are Eazy-E, Edda Mussolini, James Meade, John B. Calhoun, Carlos Monzón, and Ko Takamoro.
1903 - 1979
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 63
1903 - 1970
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 64
1903 - 1997
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 65
1903 - 1979
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 66
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 67
1903 - 1968
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 68
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 69
1903 - 1972
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 70
1903 - 2003
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 71
1903 - 1973
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 72
1903 - 1945
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 73
1903 - 1967
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 74
1903 - 1941
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 75
1942 - 1995
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 50
1908 - 1995
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 51
1920 - 1995
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 52
1907 - 1995
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 53
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 54
1900 - 1995
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 55
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 56
1964 - 1995
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 57
1910 - 1995
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 58
1907 - 1995
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 59
1917 - 1995
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 60
1942 - 1995
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 61
1907 - 1995
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 62
Among people born in United States, Alonzo Church ranks 1,574 out of 18,182. Before him are James Gandolfini (1961), Lee de Forest (1873), Joseph Nye (1937), George C. Scott (1927), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), and Edward W. Morley (1838). After him are Bessie Smith (1894), Michael Madsen (1957), Eazy-E (1964), Donald J. Cram (1919), Grant Wood (1891), and Reed Hastings (1960).
1961 - 2013
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 1,568
1873 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,569
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,570
1927 - 1999
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,571
1826 - 1900
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,572
1838 - 1923
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 1,573
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,574
1894 - 1937
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,575
1957 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 1,576
1964 - 1995
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,577
1919 - 2001
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,578
1891 - 1942
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 1,579
1960 - Present
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 1,580
Among mathematicians born in United States, Alonzo Church ranks 9. Before him are Claude Shannon (1916), Norbert Wiener (1894), Katherine Johnson (1918), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), and Mary Jackson (1921). After him are Lloyd Shapley (1923), Sam Loyd (1841), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Paul Cohen (1934), and John Milnor (1931).
1916 - 2001
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 3
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 4
1918 - 2020
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 5
1917 - 2008
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 6
1917 - 2011
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 7
1921 - 2005
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 8
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 9
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 10
1841 - 1911
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 11
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 12
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 13
1934 - 2007
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 14
1931 - Present
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 15