MATHEMATICIAN

Don Zagier

1951 - Today

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Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Zagier has received more than 138,699 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Don Zagier is the 852nd most popular mathematician, the 5,131st most popular biography from Germany and the 98th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Don Zagier ranks 852 out of 1,004Before him are Marston Morse, I. J. Good, Dmitri Anosov, Shinichi Mochizuki, Corrado Segre, and Radhanath Sikdar. After him are Richard Garfield, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Juliusz Schauder, Yuri Linnik, Evelyn Boyd Granville, and Richard Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Don Zagier ranks 454Before him are Vilson Ahmeti, Rafael Vaganian, Uri Lupolianski, Tomás Boy, Bronisław Malinowski, and Sebastian Francis. After him are Antoni Szymanowski, Anne-Karine Strøm, Ismail Abilov, Renato Zaccarelli, Silvi Vrait, and Paul Carrack.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Don Zagier ranks 5,131 out of 7,253Before him are Heidi Biebl (1941), Julius Körner (1870), Werner Klingler (1903), Heidi Kabel (1914), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), and Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897). After him are Walter Gordon (1893), Gustav-Adolf Schur (1931), Erich Hamann (1944), Malu Dreyer (1961), Heinrich Schomburgk (1885), and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Don Zagier ranks 98Before him are Richard Rado (1906), Carl Hindenburg (1741), Christoph Gudermann (1798), Heinz Prüfer (1896), Friedrich Engel (1861), and Walther von Dyck (1856). After him are Hans Rademacher (1892), Richard Brauer (1901), Volker Strassen (1936), Paul Koebe (1882), Ruth Moufang (1905), and Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (1837).