1978 - Today
Caucher Birkar (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and at the University of Cambridge.Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caucher Birkar has received more than 346,614 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Caucher Birkar is the 837th most popular mathematician (down from 788th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Iran (down from 345th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Caucher Birkar ranks 837 out of 823. Before him are Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Diederik Korteweg, Richard Borcherds, Martin Davis, and Poul Heegaard. After him are Demetrios Christodoulou, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, I. J. Good, Ken Ribet, and George Salmon.
1922 - 2017
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 831
1879 - 1967
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 832
1848 - 1941
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 833
1959 - Present
HPI: 41.71
Rank: 834
1928 - 2023
HPI: 41.69
Rank: 835
1871 - 1948
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 836
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 837
1951 - Present
HPI: 41.40
Rank: 838
1899 - 1963
HPI: 41.39
Rank: 839
1918 - 2012
HPI: 41.33
Rank: 840
1916 - 2009
HPI: 41.32
Rank: 841
1948 - Present
HPI: 41.16
Rank: 842
1819 - 1904
HPI: 41.10
Rank: 843
Among people born in 1978, Caucher Birkar ranks 208. Before him are Marcelo Zalayeta, Ludwika Paleta, Estella Warren, Danna García, Chelsea Peretti, and Ringo Sheena. After him are Madeline Miller, Thor Hushovd, Jérôme Rothen, Vanness Wu, Bajrakitiyabha, and Emile Heskey.
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.87
Rank: 202
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 203
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 204
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.81
Rank: 205
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 206
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 207
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 208
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 209
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 210
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 211
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 212
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 213
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.55
Rank: 214
Among people born in Iran, Caucher Birkar ranks 370 out of 528. Before him are Mina Ahadi (1956), Ali Karimi (1978), Matt Ghaffari (1961), Manouchehr Mottaki (1953), Aylar Lie (1984), and Eshaq Jahangiri (1958). After him are Parviz Parastui (1955), Ahmad NikTalab (1934), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977), Nazanin Boniadi (1979), and Mohammad Reza Aref (1951).
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.50
Rank: 364
1978 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 365
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.48
Rank: 366
1953 - Present
HPI: 42.22
Rank: 367
1984 - Present
HPI: 42.16
Rank: 368
1958 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 369
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 370
1955 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 371
1934 - 2020
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 372
1952 - 2020
HPI: 41.57
Rank: 373
1977 - Present
HPI: 41.51
Rank: 374
1979 - Present
HPI: 41.35
Rank: 375
1951 - Present
HPI: 41.23
Rank: 376
Among mathematicians born in Iran, Caucher Birkar ranks 10. Before him are Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), and Al-Nayrizi (865).
960 - 1036
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 4
1236 - 1311
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 5
1077 - 1155
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 6
1135 - 1213
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 7
1977 - 2017
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 8
865 - 922
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 9
1978 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 10