1925 - 2015
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 122,789 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Roth is the 436th most popular mathematician (down from 400th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Poland (down from 538th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Klaus Roth ranks 436 out of 823. Before him are Al-Sijzi, Hans Freudenthal, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Thomas Wright, Johann Samuel König, and Pierre François Verhulst. After him are Oscar Zariski, Vladimir Smirnov, Robert Langlands, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Kurt Hensel, and Max Dehn.
945 - 1020
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 430
1905 - 1990
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 431
1256 - 1321
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 432
1711 - 1786
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 433
1712 - 1757
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 434
1804 - 1849
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 435
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 436
1899 - 1986
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 437
1887 - 1974
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 438
1936 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 439
1906 - 1993
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 440
1861 - 1941
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 441
1878 - 1952
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 442
Among people born in 1925, Klaus Roth ranks 182. Before him are Edward Gorey, Michael Dummett, Serge Dassault, Krishna Sobti, Kalle Svensson, and June Whitfield. After him are Yuli Daniel, Emilio Eduardo Massera, Scott Carpenter, Carlo Rambaldi, Ilie Verdeț, and Prosper Grech. Among people deceased in 2015, Klaus Roth ranks 152. Before him are Egon Bahr, Renzo Zorzi, Vicente Aranda, Elena Obraztsova, Dean Jones, and Nils Christie. After him are Hermann Zapf, Władysław Bartoszewski, Valentin Rasputin, Søren Kam, Ignacio Zoco, and Mile Mrkšić.
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 176
1925 - 2011
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 177
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 178
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 179
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 180
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 181
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 182
1925 - 1988
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 183
1925 - 2010
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 184
1925 - 2013
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 185
1925 - 2012
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 186
1925 - 2001
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 187
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 188
1922 - 2015
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 146
1946 - 2015
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 147
1926 - 2015
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 148
1939 - 2015
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 149
1931 - 2015
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 150
1928 - 2015
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 151
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 152
1918 - 2015
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 153
1922 - 2015
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 154
1937 - 2015
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 155
1921 - 2015
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 156
1939 - 2015
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 157
1947 - 2015
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 158
Among people born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 611 out of 1,454. Before him are Karol Lipiński (1790), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Edward Ochab (1906), Oskar Kummetz (1891), and Mieczysław Rakowski (1926). After him are Władysław Odonic (1190), Louis Marcoussis (1878), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), and Jankel Adler (1895).
1790 - 1861
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 605
1797 - 1873
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 606
1885 - 1947
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 607
1906 - 1989
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 608
1891 - 1980
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 609
1926 - 2008
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 610
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 611
1190 - 1239
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 612
1878 - 1941
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 613
1909 - 1987
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 614
1847 - 1920
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 615
1905 - 1953
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 616
1895 - 1949
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 617
Among mathematicians born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 18. Before him are Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Vitello (1230), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Richard Courant (1888), and Emil Leon Post (1897). After him are Michael O. Rabin (1931), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Abraham Robinson (1918), and Martin Kutta (1867).
1896 - 1980
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 12
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 13
1230 - 1275
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 14
1885 - 1954
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 15
1888 - 1972
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 16
1897 - 1954
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 17
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 18
1931 - Present
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 19
1865 - 1923
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 20
1833 - 1902
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 21
1913 - 1998
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 22
1918 - 1974
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 23
1867 - 1944
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 24