MATHEMATICIAN

Lev Pontryagin

1908 - 1988

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Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Pontryagin has received more than 200,735 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Lev Pontryagin is the 276th most popular mathematician (up from 311th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from Russia (up from 738th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lev Pontryagin ranks 276 out of 1,004. Before him are Atle Selberg, Karen Uhlenbeck, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Shing-Tung Yau, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Paul Cohen. After him are Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, Edward Waring, Lloyd Shapley, and Abraham bar Hiyya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lev Pontryagin ranks 90. Before him are Leroy Anderson, Cus D'Amato, Viktor Abakumov, Bjarni Benediktsson, Giacomo Manzù, and Afet İnan. After him are Sicco Mansholt, Gustavo Marzi, Lionel Hampton, Michael Redgrave, Michael DeBakey, and Libertad Lamarque. Among people deceased in 1988, Lev Pontryagin ranks 62. Before him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, John Carradine, George Uhlenbeck, Sergey Gorshkov, and Vladimír Menšík. After him are Bluma Zeigarnik, Henry Murray, Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, and Piero Taruffi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Pontryagin ranks 630 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Alexandre Benois (1870), and Yuri Temirkanov (1938). After him are Vasily Shukshin (1929), Viktor Chernov (1873), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), Caran d'Ache (1858), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), and Pavel Tsitsianov (1754).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Lev Pontryagin ranks 14. Before him are Christian Goldbach (1690), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943). After him are Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Igor Ansoff (1918), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Sergei Sobolev (1908), and Sergei Novikov (1938).

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