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MATHEMATICIAN

Gilbert Strang

1934 - Today

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William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilbert Strang has received more than 626,743 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gilbert Strang is the 709th most popular mathematician (down from 695th in 2019), the 6,891st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,998th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 18

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  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gilbert Strang ranks 709 out of 823. Before him are Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Daniel Quillen, Alexander Ostrowski, Charles Howard Hinton, Helena Rasiowa, and Harald Cramér. After him are Victor Puiseux, Eugene Dynkin, Friedrich Engel, Boris Galerkin, Anatoly Karatsuba, and William Kahan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Gilbert Strang ranks 344. Before him are Phil Ramone, Gotlib, Tonina Torrielli, Chuck McCann, Gulzar, and Ole Madsen. After him are Phạm Minh Mẫn, Junior Wells, Sam Panopoulos, Jaegwon Kim, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Eddy Pieters Graafland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gilbert Strang ranks 6,891 out of 18,182. Before him are Vivica A. Fox (1964), Jacqueline Susann (1918), Louis Wolheim (1880), Vinny Appice (1957), Clifton Williams (1932), and Richard Corben (1940). After him are Michael Lewis (1960), Clyfford Still (1904), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), Nat Adderley (1931), Metacomet (1639), and Peter Pace (1945).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Gilbert Strang ranks 46. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Oswald Veblen (1880), John Tate (1925), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Gladys West (1930), and Daniel Quillen (1940). After him are Solomon W. Golomb (1932), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Charles Fefferman (1949), Dennis Sullivan (1941), Hassler Whitney (1907), and Richard Garfield (1963).

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