MATHEMATICIAN

Irving Kaplansky

1917 - 2006

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Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917 – June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irving Kaplansky has received more than 125,462 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Irving Kaplansky is the 966th most popular mathematician (down from 872nd in 2019), the 788th most popular biography from Canada (down from 715th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Irving Kaplansky ranks 966 out of 1,004Before him are Dusa McDuff, Simon Singh, Béla Bollobás, Harald Helfgott, Krystyna Kuperberg, and Alicia Dickenstein. After him are William Spottiswoode, Leonid Levin, Philippa Fawcett, Alessio Figalli, Keith Devlin, and Eric W. Weisstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Irving Kaplansky ranks 343Before him are Kamal Ranadive, Fannie Lou Hamer, Hans Conried, Mervyn Wood, Dezső Lemhényi, and Adele Jergens. After him are Bill Clements, Anton Coppola, Lucille Bremer, Virginia Field, Lorna Gray, and Kay Aldridge. Among people deceased in 2006, Irving Kaplansky ranks 393Before him are J Dilla, Naushad, Ellen Willis, Ed Bradley, Mervyn Wood, and Isaac Gálvez. After him are John Spencer, Esther Victoria Abraham, Gernot Jurtin, Surinder Kaur, Mihály Fülöp, and Sarah Caldwell.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Irving Kaplansky ranks 788 out of 1,622Before him are Christina Cox (1971), Stephen Elop (1963), Sylvia Fedoruk (1927), Eddie Shore (1902), Dylan Neal (1969), and Lisa Jakub (1978). After him are William Edmond Logan (1798), Gerald Emmett Carter (1912), Emily Murphy (1868), Pierre Bouvier (1979), Avan Jogia (1992), and Peter Outerbridge (1966).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Irving Kaplansky ranks 10Before him are Louis Nirenberg (1925), Edward Routh (1831), Robert Langlands (1936), William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), and Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923). After him are Manjul Bhargava (1974).