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John Charles Fields

1863 - 1932

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John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC (May 14, 1863 – August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Charles Fields has received more than 152,954 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John Charles Fields is the 219th most popular mathematician (down from 142nd in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Canada (down from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Mathematician.

John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician who was most famous for his work in the fields of algebra and number theory. He was the first president of the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was created to promote international cooperation in mathematics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Charles Fields ranks 219 out of 823. Before him are Hermann Schwarz, John Horton Conway, Tullio Levi-Civita, Pedro Nunes, Hugo Steinhaus, and Menaechmus. After him are Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Seymour Papert, Lloyd Shapley, and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, John Charles Fields ranks 38. Before him are Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, Franz von Hipper, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, and Charles Spearman. After him are Henry Royce, Mary Jane Kelly, W. I. Thomas, Leopold Berchtold, Hugo Münsterberg, and Andrés Bonifacio. Among people deceased in 1932, John Charles Fields ranks 29. Before him are Jules Chéret, Eugen d'Albert, Ottokar Czernin, Pierre De Geyter, Franz von Hipper, and Alexander Grin. After him are Georg Kerschensteiner, Kang Pan-sok, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Tomáš Baťa, Ahmed Shawqi, and Reginald Fessenden.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Charles Fields ranks 70 out of 1,350. Before him are Mike Myers (1963), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), Oscar Peterson (1925), David H. Hubel (1926), Linda Evangelista (1965), and Edward Dmytryk (1908). After him are Mylène Farmer (1961), Norman Bethune (1890), Avril Lavigne (1984), A. E. van Vogt (1912), Wayne Gretzky (1961), and Rachel McAdams (1978).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, John Charles Fields ranks 1. After him are Simon Newcomb (1835), Robert Langlands (1936), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Edward Routh (1831), Albert W. Tucker (1905), William Kahan (1933), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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