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Georgy Adelson-Velsky

1922 - 2014

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Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский; name is sometimes transliterated as Georgii Adelson-Velskii) (8 January 1922 – 26 April 2014) was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. Born in Samara, Adelson-Velsky was originally educated as a pure mathematician. His first paper, with his fellow student and eventual long-term collaborator Alexander Kronrod in 1945, won a prize from the Moscow Mathematical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgy Adelson-Velsky has received more than 87,946 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Adelson-Velsky is the 840th most popular mathematician (down from 794th in 2019), the 2,126th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,981st in 2019) and the 59th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Over the past year Georgy Adelson-Velsky has had the most page views in the with 12,430 views, followed by Russian (4,761), and Chinese (1,615). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (124.43%), Kapampangan (97.44%), and Hebrew (48.93%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 840 out of 1,004. Before him are Nathan Jacobson, Friedrich Engel, Sergey Nikolsky, Tom M. Apostol, William Feller, and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. After him are Walther von Dyck, Marshall Harvey Stone, Thomas Henderson, Simon Donaldson, John H. Coates, and Marston Morse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 354. Before him are Kuno Klötzer, Arthur Wightman, Grace Paley, Irina Antonova, Herbert MacKay-Fraser, and Umberto Betti. After him are Melvin Laird, Gustaf Jansson, Lukas Foss, Rudolf Haag, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and Jim Pollard. Among people deceased in 2014, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 405. Before him are Sirkka Polkunen, Glenn Cornick, Michio Mado, Roberto Telch, Gennadi Gusarov, and A. N. R. Robinson. After him are Stanisław Barańczak, John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, Ian McLagan, Dmitri Anosov, Lucidio Sentimenti, and Erik Hansen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 2,126 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksey Buldakov (1951), Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925), Lev Shcherba (1880), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958). After him are Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Rufina Gasheva (1921), Klara Guseva (1937), and Matvey Gusev (1826).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 59. Before him are Eugene Dynkin (1924), Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), and Sergey Nikolsky (1905). After him are Dmitri Anosov (1936), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), Mikhail Suslin (1894), Yury Osipov (1936), and Andrei Okounkov (1969).

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