MATHEMATICIAN

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

1929 - 2009

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In his last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro has received more than 69,921 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro is the 773rd most popular mathematician (up from 847th in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,190th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 773 out of 1,004. Before him are Giuseppe Veronese, Yitang Zhang, Leonida Tonelli, Gilbert Strang, Walter Rudin, and Wendelin Werner. After him are Oskar Perron, Franz Mertens, Gu Chaohao, Vaughan Jones, Martin Davis, and Hassler Whitney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 384. Before him are Günter Kunert, Dilara Aliyeva, Nathalia Timberg, Eliseo Prado, Elizabeth Spriggs, and Beverly Sills. After him are Pat Crawford Brown, Eberhard Jäckel, Betty Carter, Jaime Gómez, Gerald Dreyer, and Igor Novikov. Among people deceased in 2009, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 265. Before him are Roger Planchon, Jan Kaplický, Sergei Magnitsky, Jacques Chessex, Godfrey Rampling, and Norbert Eschmann. After him are Daniel Jarque, Francisco Valdés, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Idea Vilariño, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Luciano Emmer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 1,918 out of 3,761. Before him are Andriy Yarmolenko (1989), Issay Dobrowen (1891), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), Pavel Kadochnikov (1915), Dmitry Anuchin (1843), and Talgat Tadzhuddin (1948). After him are Mariya Polivanova (1922), Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870), Yuri Bashmet (1953), Nina Andreyeva (1938), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), and Leonid Abalkin (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 51. Before him are Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), and Svetlana Gannushkina (1942). After him are Pyotr Novikov (1901), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), and Stanislav Smirnov (1970).

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