MATHEMATICIAN

Erna Schneider Hoover

1926 - Today

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Erna Schneider Hoover (born June 19, 1926) is an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized modern communication". It prevented system overloads by monitoring call center traffic and prioritizing tasks on phone switching systems to enable more robust service during peak calling times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erna Schneider Hoover has received more than 208,780 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Erna Schneider Hoover is the 904th most popular mathematician (down from 787th in 2019), the 10,258th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,481st in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Erna Schneider Hoover ranks 904 out of 1,004. Before her are Demetrios Christodoulou, James Lighthill, Phillip Griffiths, Richard Borcherds, Antoni Zygmund, and Javier Perez-Capdevila. After her are W. T. Tutte, William Gemmell Cochran, Øystein Ore, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, and Cathleen Synge Morawetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Erna Schneider Hoover ranks 474. Before her are Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Milo O'Shea, Dionizije Dvornić, Zygmunt Chychła, George Ariyoshi, and Nikolai Tishchenko. After her are Hong Deok-young, Tony Settember, Don Gordon, Éva Janikovszky, Rob Schroeder, and Shohachi Ishii.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erna Schneider Hoover ranks 10,258 out of 20,380. Before her are John Sloan (1871), Dorothy Allison (1949), Josh Homme (1973), John O. Brennan (1955), Gideon Welles (1802), and Patricia Barber (1955). After her are Don Muraco (1949), Richard Florida (1957), Samuel Huntington (1731), Richard Fortus (1966), Marilyn White (1944), and Bonita Granville (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Erna Schneider Hoover ranks 76. Before her are Norman Johnson (1930), Cleve Moler (1939), Robin Hartshorne (1938), Clifford Truesdell (1919), Adele Goldstine (1920), and Phillip Griffiths (1938). After her are Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Herman Chernoff (1923), Ken Ribet (1948), Martin David Kruskal (1925), Elwyn Berlekamp (1940), and George Mostow (1923).

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