MATHEMATICIAN

Israel Gelfand

1913 - 2009

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Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet-American mathematician. He made significant contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis. The recipient of many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at Rutgers University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Israel Gelfand has received more than 300,818 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Israel Gelfand is the 225th most popular mathematician (up from 246th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 206th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Israel Gelfand ranks 225 out of 1,004. Before him are Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, Henry Briggs, Thomas Abbt, Anatoly Fomenko, and Maria Reiche. After him are Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, and Piet Hein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Israel Gelfand ranks 70. Before him are Bill Shankly, Heinz Linge, Sergey Mikhalkov, Robert Adler, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Nicolás Gómez Dávila. After him are Méret Oppenheim, Benjamin Bloom, Yasuo Suzuki, Mark Felt, Paul Grice, and Lloyd Bridges. Among people deceased in 2009, Israel Gelfand ranks 54. Before him are Patrick McGoohan, Natasha Richardson, Pavel Popovich, Sergey Mikhalkov, Edwin G. Krebs, and Achille Compagnoni. After him are Mario Benedetti, Takashi Takabayashi, Sverre Fehn, Toni Sailer, Ingemar Johansson, and Susan Atkins.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Israel Gelfand ranks 194 out of 1,365. Before him are Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Batbayan (700), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), and Meir Dagan (1945). After him are Louis B. Mayer (1884), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Paul Muni (1895), and Mykola Lysenko (1842).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Israel Gelfand ranks 7. Before him are Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Richard von Mises (1883), and Anatoly Fomenko (1945). After him are Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), and Alfred J. Lotka (1880).

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