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MATHEMATICIAN

Igor Shafarevich

1923 - 2017

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Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (Russian: И́горь Ростисла́вович Шафаре́вич; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Shafarevich has received more than 219,960 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Igor Shafarevich is the 377th most popular mathematician (down from 374th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 319th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Igor Shafarevich ranks 377 out of 823Before him are Gemma Frisius, Raymond Smullyan, Zhu Shijie, László Lovász, Otto Hesse, and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. After him are Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Ivan Vinogradov, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Yutaka Taniyama, Christian Kramp, and Cato Maximilian Guldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Igor Shafarevich ranks 147Before him are Gordon Mitchell, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Edward Mulhare, Arthur Hiller, Antonio Quarracino, and Faas Wilkes. After him are Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Ahmet Ertegun, Diana Douglas, Marc Riboud, Loriot, and Joseph Weizenbaum. Among people deceased in 2017, Igor Shafarevich ranks 161Before him are Seijun Suzuki, Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Raymond Smullyan, Richard Anderson, Mustafa Tlass, and William Peter Blatty. After him are Brunhilde Pomsel, Predrag Matvejević, Miloslav Vlk, Gastone Moschin, Charles Bachman, and Sonny Landham.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Shafarevich ranks 340 out of 1,083Before him are Abraham Zapruder (1905), Alexander Zakharchenko (1976), Eugen Schauman (1875), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), Vitaliy Masol (1928), and Evgeny Lifshitz (1915). After him are Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Nadezhda Durova (1783), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Onufriy (1944), Yuriy Drohobych (1450), and Nikolai Kibalchich (1853).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Igor Shafarevich ranks 10Before him are Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Richard von Mises (1883), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), and Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876). After him are Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), and Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801).