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Hillel Furstenberg

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Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (Hebrew: הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hillel Furstenberg has received more than 141,704 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hillel Furstenberg is the 508th most popular mathematician (up from 570th in 2019), the 3,406th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,562nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 508 out of 1,004. Before him are Anders Johan Lexell, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Gerd Faltings, Louis Bachelier, Charles Julien Brianchon, and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier. After him are Johann Baptist Cysat, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, Kushyar Gilani, Hermann Bondi, and Peter Lax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 204. Before him are Judith Reisman, Dieter Hallervorden, Gerhard Mitter, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Michael Kahn, and Valerio Adami. After him are Ramón Chao, Nabil Elaraby, Yvon Douis, Ervin Zádor, Valentin Gaft, and Vladimir Aksyonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 3,406 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Voss (1897), Erich Weinert (1890), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), and Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848). After him are Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Kurt Moll (1938), Aribert Reimann (1936), Peter Winter (1754), and Karl Wittgenstein (1847).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 62. Before him are Adam Ries (1492), Johann Samuel König (1712), Karl Mollweide (1774), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), and Gerd Faltings (1954). After him are Otto Hölder (1859), Martin Ohm (1792), Max Noether (1921), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Max August Zorn (1906), and Max Dehn (1878).

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