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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 201,599 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Goro Shimura is the 422nd most popular mathematician (down from 371st in 2019), the 802nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 711th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Goro Shimura ranks 422 out of 823. Before him are Viggo Brun, Adriaan van Roomen, John Vitéz, Karl Mollweide, Lars Hörmander, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet. After him are Otto Hölder, Mihailo Petrović, Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, Dinostratus, and Hermann Bondi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Goro Shimura ranks 213. Before him are Lawrence Eagleburger, Sa'dun Hammadi, Venantino Venantini, The Big Bopper, Eugenio Castellotti, and Ahmad Jamal. After him are Ryszard Kukliński, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Josef Hügi, David Huddleston, and Adile Naşit. Among people deceased in 2019, Goro Shimura ranks 163. Before him are Ross Perot, Eva Mozes Kor, Charles Jencks, Charlie Whiting, Jörg Demus, and Marie-José Nat. After him are Sogyal Rinpoche, Sylvia Miles, José Luis Brown, Krishna Sobti, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Peggy Lipton.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 802 out of 6,048. Before him are Keiko Abe (1937), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Michihiro Ozawa (1932), Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Yukio Shimomura (1932), and Kyuichi Tokuda (1894). After him are Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1906), Prince Munetaka (1242), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), and Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 6. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), and Heisuke Hironaka (1931). After him are Shigefumi Mori (1951), Mikio Sato (1928), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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