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Evelyn Boyd Granville

1924 - 2023

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Evelyn Boyd Granville (May 1, 1924 – June 27, 2023) was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. She graduated from Smith College in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evelyn Boyd Granville has received more than 132,315 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Evelyn Boyd Granville is the 857th most popular mathematician (up from 869th in 2019), the 8,820th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,155th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Evelyn Boyd Granville ranks 857 out of 1,004. Before her are Radhanath Sikdar, Don Zagier, Richard Garfield, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Juliusz Schauder, and Yuri Linnik. After her are Richard Taylor, Hans Rademacher, Roger Apéry, Michael Aschbacher, Richard Brauer, and Jørgen Pedersen Gram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Evelyn Boyd Granville ranks 410. Before her are Erkki Kataja, Donald Richie, Gisela May, Joseph Nérette, Muhammad Osman Said, and Margaret Truman. After her are Maria Golubnichaya, Pierre Adam, Mohamed M. Atalla, Hubert Curien, Maria Sander, and Ken Armstrong. Among people deceased in 2023, Evelyn Boyd Granville ranks 504. Before her are Owen Roizman, Lualhati Bautista, Jan Mrvík, Miiko Taka, James McCaffrey, and Max Hardcore. After her are Abderrahim Ouakili, Per Røntved, Patricia Janečková, Anvar Ibragimov, Traudl Hecher, and Rainer Troppa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evelyn Boyd Granville ranks 8,820 out of 20,380. Before her are Dave Farrell (1977), Elle Fanning (1998), Robert Bly (1926), Elizabeth Ashley (1939), Helen Murray Free (1923), and Norman Bel Geddes (1893). After her are Laura La Plante (1904), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack McGee (1949), John Ashcroft (1942), Ann Rule (1931), and Bobby Hutcherson (1941).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Evelyn Boyd Granville ranks 67. Before her are Gregory Chaitin (1947), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Marston Morse (1892), and Richard Garfield (1963). After her are Michael Aschbacher (1944), Barry Mazur (1937), Norman Johnson (1930), Cleve Moler (1939), Robin Hartshorne (1938), and Clifford Truesdell (1919).

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