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MATHEMATICIAN

Ilia Vekua

1907 - 1977

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Ilia Vekua (Georgian: ილია ვეკუა; Russian: Илья́ Не́сторович Ве́куа; 23 April 1907 in the village of Shesheleti, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (modern day Gali District, Abkhazia, Republic of Georgia – 2 December 1977 in Tbilisi, USSR) was a distinguished Georgian mathematician and engineer, specializing in partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells. Ilia Vekua was born in 1907 in the Georgian village Sheshelety. After finishing school in Zugdidi, he entered Physics and Mathematics Department at Tbilisi State University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilia Vekua has received more than 19,742 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ilia Vekua is the 576th most popular mathematician (up from 615th in 2019).

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  • 49.29

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ilia Vekua ranks 576 out of 823. Before him are William Burnside, Gino Fano, Hillel Furstenberg, Nilakantha Somayaji, Edmund Gunter, and Pál Turán. After him are Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Yuri Manin, Luigi Bianchi, Rózsa Péter, Ronald Graham, and Emil Julius Gumbel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ilia Vekua ranks 198. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Jean Aerts, Günter Eich, Camargo Guarnieri, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Juan Carlos Corazzo. After him are Jack Albertson, Giuseppe Occhialini, Luigi Beccali, Zezé Moreira, Gordon Douglas, and Fritz Szepan. Among people deceased in 1977, Ilia Vekua ranks 142. Before him are Gummo Marx, Konstantin Fedin, Willem Schermerhorn, Krishan Chander, Eugen Schüfftan, and Jean Duvieusart. After him are Vladimir Tributs, Martí Ventolrà, Leila Hyams, Rózsa Péter, Pascual Pérez, and Alexander Volkov.

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