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Klaus Roth

1925 - 2015

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Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Roth moved to England as a child in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and University College London, finishing his doctorate in 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Roth has received more than 129,202 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Klaus Roth is the 369th most popular mathematician (up from 435th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 611th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Klaus Roth ranks 369 out of 1,004. Before him are Ivan Vinogradov, Bruno Abakanowicz, Heisuke Hironaka, George Green, Otto Hesse, and Roger Cotes. After him are Diocles, Caspar Wessel, Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, Edward Kasner, and Philipp Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Klaus Roth ranks 147. Before him are Jean d'Ormesson, Roger Hanin, Jean Raspail, Solomon Perel, M. S. Swaminathan, and François-Xavier Ortoli. After him are Silvana Pampanini, Giovanni Spadolini, Katherine MacGregor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Ana María Matute, and Donald O'Connor. Among people deceased in 2015, Klaus Roth ranks 123. Before him are Joshua Fishman, Magali Noël, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Ignacio Zoco, Jacob Bekenstein, and Roger Hanin. After him are Kenzo Ohashi, Natalie Cole, Diana Douglas, Anne Meara, Aleksei Gubarev, and Nigel Terry.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 532 out of 1,694. Before him are Helmut Lent (1918), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), John Albert Vasa (1612), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Bolesław II the Horned (1217), and Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846). After him are Moses Isserles (1520), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Franz Waxman (1906), Otto von Gierke (1841), and Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 18. Before him are Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), and Emil Leon Post (1897). After him are Richard Courant (1888), Abraham Robinson (1918), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Martin Kutta (1867), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), and Samuel Eilenberg (1913).

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