MATHEMATICIAN

Boris Delaunay

1890 - 1980

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Boris Nikolayevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Делоне́; 15 March 1890 – 17 July 1980) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, mountain climber, and the father of physicist, Nikolai Borisovich Delone. The spelling Delone is a straightforward transliteration from Cyrillic he often used in later publications, while Delaunay is the French version he used in the early French and German publications. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Delaunay has received more than 93,288 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Delaunay is the 590th most popular mathematician (down from 536th in 2019), the 1,402nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,265th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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  • 50.72

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Boris Delaunay has had the most page views in the with 11,567 views, followed by Russian (10,312), and French (1,406). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (59.66%), Haitian (46.42%), and Korean (43.95%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Boris Delaunay ranks 590 out of 1,004. Before him are Harald Cramér, Mikio Sato, Shigefumi Mori, Dmitri Egorov, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, and Harold Jeffreys. After him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Edward Routh, Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, David Ruelle, and Haskell Curry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Boris Delaunay ranks 146. Before him are Olga Desmond, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Karl Freund, Joseph Helffrich, Alexander Granach, and Rudolf von Bünau. After him are Elmer Niklander, Vera Inber, Katherine Anne Porter, Moa Martinson, Arthur Holmes, and George Horine. Among people deceased in 1980, Boris Delaunay ranks 169. Before him are C. P. Snow, Nihat Erim, José de Anchieta Fontana, Terence Fisher, Pyotr Masherov, and Rafael Paasio. After him are Boris Kaufman, George Pal, Arend Heyting, Marcel Langiller, Katherine Anne Porter, and Aleksander Ford.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Delaunay ranks 1,402 out of 3,761. Before him are Agafya Grushetskaya (1663), Marina Oswald Porter (1941), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Anatoli Maslyonkin (1930), Valentina Tolkunova (1946), and Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803). After him are Pavel Filonov (1883), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Andrey Korotayev (1961), Boris Grebenshchikov (1953), and Mikhail Shishkin (1961).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Boris Delaunay ranks 37. Before him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Carl Neumann (1832), Nina Bari (1901), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), and Dmitri Egorov (1869). After him are Aleksey Krylov (1863), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Jürgen Moser (1928), and Dmitry Grave (1863).

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