MATHEMATICIAN

Eugene Dynkin

1924 - 2014

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Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (Russian: Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Dynkin has received more than 93,479 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Dynkin is the 798th most popular mathematician (down from 708th in 2019), the 2,004th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,730th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eugene Dynkin ranks 798 out of 1,004Before him are Morris Kline, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Grigore Moisil, Pyotr Novikov, Francesco Brioschi, and Andrzej Mostowski. After him are Ngô Bảo Châu, Marcel Riesz, Grace Chisholm Young, Douglas McIlroy, Frank Morley, and Wolfgang Krull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Eugene Dynkin ranks 376Before him are Leo Buscaglia, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Claude Netter, Roy Bentley, Audouin Dollfus, and Béla Zsitnik. After him are Robert Körner, Bill Smith, Giovanni Saldarini, Rune Larsson, Michael Manley, and Mira Alečković. Among people deceased in 2014, Eugene Dynkin ranks 375Before him are Kira Zvorykina, Henry Hartsfield, James Brady, Klaus Schmidt, François Deguelt, and Ernest Mühlen. After him are Gyula Török, Dorothy Cheney, Acker Bilk, Elaine Stritch, Piero D'Inzeo, and Çolpan İlhan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eugene Dynkin ranks 2,004 out of 3,761Before him are Pyotr Novikov (1901), Yuri Baturin (1949), Georgi Yumatov (1926), Roman Pavlyuchenko (1981), Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875), and Igor Akinfeev (1986). After him are Alexander Mitta (1933), Valery Korzun (1953), Zemfira (1976), Yelena Kondakova (1957), Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971), and Nadezhda Suslova (1843).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Eugene Dynkin ranks 53Before him are Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), and Pyotr Novikov (1901). After him are Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), and Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922).