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 238,681 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Igor Shafarevich is the 320th most popular mathematician (up from 377th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 337th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Igor Shafarevich ranks 320 out of 1,004. Before him are Johannes Widmann, John G. Thompson, Oronce Finé, Theodor Kaluza, Gotthold Eisenstein, and Abraham Wald. After him are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and Maurice René Fréchet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Igor Shafarevich ranks 115. Before him are Stig Dagerman, Alexandre Astruc, Loriot, Charles Durning, Svetozar Gligorić, and Dimitrios Ioannidis. After him are Carlos Páez Vilaró, Ziba Ganiyeva, Andrés Rodríguez, Gloria Grahame, Wally Schirra, and Alexander Yakovlev. Among people deceased in 2017, Igor Shafarevich ranks 126. Before him are Shadia, Robert James Waller, Lubomyr Husar, Jerry Fodor, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and Tsutomu Hata. After him are Luis Bacalov, Lyudmila Chernykh, Pierre Henry, Violet Brown, Mustafa Tlass, and Miguel Ferrer.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Shafarevich ranks 297 out of 1,365. Before him are Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), and Sidney Reilly (1873). After him are Sergey Kamenev (1881), Viacheslav Chornovil (1937), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Nikolay Shchors (1895), and Yaroslav Stetsko (1912).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

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

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