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Isadore Singer

1924 - 2021

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Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah, proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isadore Singer has received more than 263,584 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Isadore Singer is the 467th most popular mathematician (up from 526th in 2019), the 3,768th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,522nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Isadore Singer ranks 467 out of 1,004. Before him are Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, Yutaka Taniyama, Frigyes Riesz, Jean Leray, and Eric Temple Bell. After him are Hermann Hankel, Raoul Bott, Daniele Barbaro, Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, James Stirling, and Alfred J. Lotka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Isadore Singer ranks 189. Before him are Max Roach, Girija Prasad Koirala, Jean-François Revel, Gohar Gasparyan, Fud Leclerc, and Gevork Vartanian. After him are Maurice Karnaugh, Rudolf Barshai, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Marc Ferro, Nina Foch, and Alain Bombard. Among people deceased in 2021, Isadore Singer ranks 212. Before him are Kamal Ganzouri, Jean-Pierre Adams, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Leon Spinks, Ng Man-tat, and Hilton Valentine. After him are John Miles, Koichi Sugiyama, Branko Mamula, Lars Norén, Clive Sinclair, and Kjell Askildsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 3,768 out of 20,380. Before him are Golden State Killer (1945), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), David Foster Wallace (1962), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Tiger Woods (1975), and Eugene Stoner (1922). After him are Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Jim Hall (1930), Lunalilo (1835), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), McCoy Tyner (1938), and Elizabeth Bolden (1890).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 27. Before him are Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), William Thurston (1946), and Richard E. Bellman (1920). After him are Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), and Ronald Graham (1935).

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