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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 121,772 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

Among mathematicians, Klaus Roth ranks 436 out of 823Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Klaus Roth ranks 182Before 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 152Before 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.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 611 out of 1,454Before 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).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 18Before 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).