1913 - 2009
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 280,538 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Israel Gelfand is the 246th most popular mathematician (down from 242nd in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 194th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Israel Gelfand ranks 246 out of 823. Before him are Joseph Petzval, Alfred Korzybski, Leo Perutz, Ibn al-Shatir, George Atwood, and Farkas Bolyai. After him are Simon Newcomb, Pierre Varignon, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Thomas Simpson, Jabir ibn Aflah, and William George Horner.
1807 - 1891
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 240
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 241
1882 - 1957
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 242
1304 - 1375
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 243
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 244
1775 - 1856
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 245
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 246
1835 - 1909
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 247
1654 - 1722
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 248
1695 - 1726
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 249
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 250
1100 - 1150
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 251
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 252
Among people born in 1913, Israel Gelfand ranks 84. Before him are Mary Leakey, Heinz Kohut, Wolfgang Lüth, Shih Kien, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Pierre Werner. After him are Marika Rökk, Amrita Sher-Gil, Johannes Steinhoff, Haxhi Lleshi, Bill Shankly, and José Sánchez del Río. Among people deceased in 2009, Israel Gelfand ranks 67. Before him are Ingemar Johansson, Arne Næss, Takashi Takabayashi, Sydney Chaplin, Shih Kien, and Susan Atkins. After him are Irving Penn, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, James Whitmore, Jack Kemp, Ricardo Montalbán, and Luís Cabral.
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 78
1913 - 1981
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 79
1913 - 1945
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 80
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 81
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 82
1913 - 2002
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 83
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 84
1913 - 2004
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 85
1913 - 1941
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 86
1913 - 1994
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 87
1913 - 1998
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 88
1913 - 1981
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 89
1913 - 1928
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 90
1932 - 2009
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 61
1912 - 2009
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 62
1931 - 2009
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 63
1926 - 2009
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 64
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 65
1948 - 2009
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 66
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 67
1917 - 2009
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 68
1914 - 2009
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 69
1921 - 2009
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 70
1935 - 2009
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 71
1920 - 2009
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 72
1931 - 2009
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 73
Among people born in Ukraine, Israel Gelfand ranks 208 out of 1,083. Before him are Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), David Bronstein (1924), Sidney Reilly (1873), and Gregor Piatigorsky (1903). After him are Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Nathan Milstein (1902), and Stephen Timoshenko (1878).
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 202
1883 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 203
1928 - 1971
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 204
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 205
1873 - 1925
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 206
1903 - 1976
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 207
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 208
1935 - 2011
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 209
1897 - 1970
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 210
1627 - 1698
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 211
1842 - 1912
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 212
1902 - 1992
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 213
1878 - 1972
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 214
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 Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880).
1909 - 1984
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 1
1801 - 1862
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 2
1937 - 2010
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 3
1878 - 1956
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 4
1883 - 1953
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 6
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 7
1804 - 1889
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 8
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 9
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 10
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 11
1868 - 1908
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 12
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 13