MATHEMATICIAN

George Mostow

1923 - 2017

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George Daniel Mostow (July 4, 1923 – April 4, 2017) was an American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. He was the Henry Ford II (emeritus) Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 49th president of the American Mathematical Society (1987–1988), and a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1982 to 1992. The rigidity phenomenon for lattices in Lie groups he discovered and explored is known as Mostow rigidity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Mostow has received more than 47,607 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Mostow is the 925th most popular mathematician (down from 826th in 2019), the 11,008th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,626th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George Mostow ranks 925 out of 1,004. Before him are Martin David Kruskal, J. H. C. Whitehead, Elwyn Berlekamp, Ruth Moufang, Ivar Otto Bendixson, and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. After him are George Peacock, Branko Grünbaum, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Leopold Löwenheim, Elon Lindenstrauss, and James Maynard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, George Mostow ranks 454. Before him are Arthur Jensen, Bernice Rubens, Trevor Ford, Edward Clancy, Roger Foulon, and László Jeney. After him are Ron Flockhart, Viktor Shuvalov, Aleksy Antkiewicz, Sergey Mikaelyan, Antonio Siddi, and Horace Ashenfelter. Among people deceased in 2017, George Mostow ranks 549. Before him are Aleksandr Salnikov, Ronald Drever, Gianuario Carta, Jiří Lanský, Cheick Tioté, and Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov. After him are Hugo Budinger, Karel Schoeman, Ryszard Parulski, Steve Sumner, William H. Gass, and Rhodri Morgan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Mostow ranks 11,008 out of 20,380. Before him are Howard Dean (1948), Cheryl Strayed (1968), Charles Eastman (1858), Bess Armstrong (1953), Mary Costa (1930), and Scott Cohen (1961). After him are Joan Copeland (1922), David Eigenberg (1964), Studs Terkel (1912), Julie Bishop (1914), Dick Richards (1936), and Wayne Thiebaud (1920).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, George Mostow ranks 82. Before him are Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Herman Chernoff (1923), Ken Ribet (1948), Martin David Kruskal (1925), and Elwyn Berlekamp (1940). After him are Ormond Stone (1847), David Singmaster (1938), Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917), Carl Pomerance (1944), Andrew M. Gleason (1921), and Bill Gosper (1943).

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