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John Tate

1925 - 2019

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John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and related areas in algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Tate has received more than 186,958 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Tate is the 549th most popular mathematician (up from 640th in 2019), the 4,533rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,800th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Mathematician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Tate ranks 549 out of 1,004. Before him are Auguste Kerckhoffs, Louis Nirenberg, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Aleksandr Khinchin, Pierre Fatou, and Max August Zorn. After him are Chen Jingrun, Jacques Herbrand, Al-Qalqashandi, Ronald Graham, Max Dehn, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John Tate ranks 232. Before him are Claude Pinoteau, Cathy Berberian, Jacques Sernas, Olle Hellbom, Louis Nirenberg, and Eva Klein. After him are Doris Roberts, Jacques Fatton, Kirill Lavrov, Luis Herrera Campins, Konrad Wolf, and Nina Lobkovskaya. Among people deceased in 2019, John Tate ranks 222. Before him are Yuri Artsutanov, Guillaume Faye, José Nápoles, Fahrudin Jusufi, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, and Elio Sgreccia. After him are Alain Barrière, Gene Wolfe, Dick Miller, Johnny Clegg, Peter Snell, and Luciano De Crescenzo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Tate ranks 4,533 out of 20,380. Before him are Amanda Plummer (1957), George Segal (1924), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Lewis Boss (1846), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), and Dorothy Gibson (1889). After him are Jubal Early (1816), Clyde Tolson (1900), Crawford Long (1815), Nathanael Greene (1742), Donald Barthelme (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, John Tate ranks 32. Before him are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), and Julia Robinson (1919). After him are Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Michael Freedman (1951), and Richard Montague (1930).

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