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Heisuke Hironaka

1931 - Today

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Heisuke Hironaka (広中 平祐, Hironaka Heisuke, born April 9, 1931) is a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heisuke Hironaka has received more than 159,519 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Heisuke Hironaka is the 365th most popular mathematician (up from 411th in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from Japan (up from 789th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Heisuke Hironaka ranks 365 out of 1,004. Before him are Madhava of Sangamagrama, Rudolf Lipschitz, Kurt Hensel, Lothar Collatz, Ivan Vinogradov, and Bruno Abakanowicz. After him are George Green, Otto Hesse, Roger Cotes, Klaus Roth, Diocles, and Caspar Wessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Heisuke Hironaka ranks 163. Before him are Shintaro Katsu, Freddy Quinn, Peter Collins, Mukaghali Makatayev, Cristina Deutekom, and Adriana Asti. After him are Umberto Lenzi, Carl Brashear, Christian Metz, Aleksei Gubarev, Neil Postman, and Dominic Chianese.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Heisuke Hironaka ranks 689 out of 6,245. Before him are Tōdō Takatora (1556), Matome Ugaki (1890), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Motoori Norinaga (1730), and Mie Hama (1943). After him are Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Meiko Kaji (1947), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628), and Kenzo Ohashi (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Heisuke Hironaka ranks 4. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), and Kiyosi Itô (1915). After him are Goro Shimura (1930), 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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