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MATHEMATICIAN

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 248,076 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Isadore Singer is the 528th most popular mathematician (up from 621st in 2019), the 4,534th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,571st in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Isadore Singer ranks 528 out of 823Before him are Terence Tao, Gerd Faltings, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Carl Adam Petri, Ulisse Dini, and René de Saussure. After him are Mary Cartwright, Pietro Mengoli, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Serge Lang, Max Noether, and Sydney Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Isadore Singer ranks 221Before him are Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Klaus Huber, Jean-Michel Charlier, Mike Bongiorno, J. J. Johnson, and Vilgot Sjöman. After him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Sabu Dastagir, Jaime Lusinchi, Erik Balling, Paruyr Sevak, and Friederike Mayröcker. Among people deceased in 2021, Isadore Singer ranks 337Before him are Pachín, Vladimir Naumov, Nick Kamen, Una Stubbs, Eusébio Scheid, and Yevgeniy Chazov. After him are Norm Macdonald, Harry Reid, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Gustavo Noboa, Ester Mägi, and Norman Lloyd.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 4,534 out of 18,182Before him are George Catlin (1796), Eric Shinseki (1942), Dana White (1969), Linda McMahon (1948), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), and William Graham Sumner (1840). After him are Rebecca Romijn (1972), Grant Green (1935), Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950), Otis Rush (1934), Arsenio Hall (1956), and Jeanne Crain (1925).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 31Before him are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), George David Birkhoff (1884), William Thurston (1946), and Haskell Curry (1900). After him are Robert Axelrod (1943), Harold Hotelling (1895), Richard Montague (1930), Michael Freedman (1951), Benjamin Peirce (1809), and Ronald Graham (1935).