MATHEMATICIAN

Goro Shimura

1930 - 2019

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Gorō Shimura (志村 五郎, Shimura Gorō, 23 February 1930 – 3 May 2019) was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Goro Shimura has received more than 199,989 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Goro Shimura is the 440th most popular mathematician (down from 421st in 2019), the 832nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 799th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Goro Shimuras by language

Over the past year Goro Shimura has had the most page views in the with 31,866 views, followed by English (18,574), and Chinese (3,560). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (188.27%), Bengali (57.84%), and Swedish (33.49%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Goro Shimura ranks 440 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicomedes, Thomas Bradwardine, Nikolai Luzin, Athir al-Din al-Abhari, Jim Simons, and Paul Lévy. After him are Pierre Wantzel, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Jacques Ozanam, Christian Kramp, Whitfield Diffie, and Cato Maximilian Guldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Goro Shimura ranks 225. Before him are Anerood Jugnauth, Borislav Pekić, Jimmy McLane, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Naomi Shemer, and Svatopluk Pluskal. After him are The Big Bopper, Bora Kostić, Jacques Hamel, Ross Perot, Liliana Segre, and Norio Ohga. Among people deceased in 2019, Goro Shimura ranks 174. Before him are Jörg Demus, Sogyal Rinpoche, Harrison Dillard, Marion Chesney, Camilo Sesto, and René Auberjonois. After him are Josef Kadraba, José Luis Brown, Andrew G. Vajna, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Momir Bulatović, and Édith Scob.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 832 out of 6,245. Before him are Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Itō Sukeyuki (1843), Isao Iwabuchi (1933), and Naoto Tajima (1912). After him are Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Toshio Miyaji (null), Sō Yoshitoshi (1568), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Kōichi Kido (1889), and Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 5. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), and Heisuke Hironaka (1931). After him are Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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