MATHEMATICIAN

Lars Hörmander

1931 - 2012

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Lars Valter Hörmander (24 January 1931 – 25 November 2012) was a Swedish mathematician who has been called "the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations".[1] Hörmander was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 and the Wolf Prize in 1988. In 2006 he was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his four-volume textbook Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators, which is considered a foundational work on the subject. Hörmander completed his Ph.D. in 1955 at Lund University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Hörmander has received more than 120,229 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Lars Hörmander is the 396th most popular mathematician (up from 419th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 380th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lars Hörmander ranks 396 out of 1,004. Before him are Ibn Sahl, John G. Kemeny, Stephen Cole Kleene, Raymond Smullyan, Qin Jiushao, and Campanus of Novara. After him are Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Richard Hamming, Benedetto Castelli, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Enrico Betti, and Richard S. Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Lars Hörmander ranks 178. Before him are Dominique Lapierre, Mwai Kibaki, Roger Piantoni, Rolf Hochhuth, Philip Baker Hall, and Jan Troell. After him are Ita Ever, Manolo Escobar, Ola Ullsten, Rajko Kuzmanović, Rubens de Falco, and Atsuko Ikeda. Among people deceased in 2012, Lars Hörmander ranks 130. Before him are Bohdan Stupka, Daniel Inouye, Sid Watkins, Pahiño, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and Ahmed Jabari. After him are Gae Aulenti, Thomas Szasz, Sally Ride, Georgi Lozanov, Iajuddin Ahmed, and Lakshmi Sahgal.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Lars Hörmander ranks 352 out of 1,879. Before him are Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Evert Taube (1890), Axel Ljung (1884), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Staffan de Mistura (1947), and Jan Troell (1931). After him are Tomas Brolin (1969), Maria Gripe (1923), Ola Ullsten (1931), Erik Nilsson (1916), Marika Green (1943), and Svante Nilsson (1460).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Sweden

Among mathematicians born in Sweden, Lars Hörmander ranks 4. Before him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Helge von Koch (1870), and Lennart Carleson (1928). After him are Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Harald Cramér (1893), and Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861).

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