MATHEMATICIAN

Gregory Chaitin

1947 - Today

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Gregory John Chaitin ( CHY-tin; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-theoretic result equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He is considered to be one of the founders of what is today known as algorithmic (Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin, Kolmogorov or program-size) complexity together with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Chaitin has received more than 226,504 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gregory Chaitin is the 832nd most popular mathematician (down from 748th in 2019), the 8,273rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,549th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 3.01

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gregory Chaitin ranks 832 out of 1,004. Before him are Stanislav Smirnov, Peter Tait, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Paul Montel, Garrett Birkhoff, and Annie S. D. Maunder. After him are Curtis T. McMullen, Nathan Jacobson, Friedrich Engel, Sergey Nikolsky, Tom M. Apostol, and William Feller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gregory Chaitin ranks 605. Before him are Ephraïm Inoni, Abdulhashim Mutalov, Richard Palmer-James, Ryo Kawasaki, José Luis Cuerda, and Gennadiy Seleznyov. After him are Thomas Christopher Collins, Richard Overy, René Desaeyere, Olivier Rolin, Ildo Maneiro, and Glenn Cornick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Chaitin ranks 8,273 out of 20,380. Before him are Rick Warren (1954), Amar Bose (1929), Teddy Pendergrass (1950), Emma Smith (1804), Marie Windsor (1919), and Brad Renfro (1982). After him are James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Harlow Curtice (1893), John David Washington (1984), Mark Eaton (1957), Arthur Dove (1880), and Jessica Simpson (1980).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Gregory Chaitin ranks 61. Before him are Joseph Keller (1923), Christine Darden (1942), Morris Kline (1908), Douglas McIlroy (1932), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), and Garrett Birkhoff (1911). After him are Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Marston Morse (1892), Richard Garfield (1963), and Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924).

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