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Louis Nirenberg

1925 - 2020

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Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equations. Many of his contributions are now regarded as fundamental to the field, such as his strong maximum principle for second-order parabolic partial differential equations and the Newlander–Nirenberg theorem in complex geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Nirenberg has received more than 236,937 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Louis Nirenberg is the 544th most popular mathematician (down from 482nd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Canada (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Louis Nirenberg ranks 544 out of 1,004. Before him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Pál Turán, Simon von Stampfer, D. R. Kaprekar, Luis Caffarelli, and Auguste Kerckhoffs. After him are Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Aleksandr Khinchin, Pierre Fatou, Max August Zorn, John Tate, and Chen Jingrun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Louis Nirenberg ranks 230. Before him are Pierre Mondy, Ignacio López Tarso, Claude Pinoteau, Cathy Berberian, Jacques Sernas, and Olle Hellbom. After him are Eva Klein, John Tate, Doris Roberts, Jacques Fatton, Kirill Lavrov, and Luis Herrera Campins. Among people deceased in 2020, Louis Nirenberg ranks 261. Before him are Corine Rottschäfer, Ray Clemence, Peter Sutcliffe, Irina Skobtseva, Jair Marinho, and Enrique Irazoqui. After him are Jean Delumeau, Norma Cappagli, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Pamela Tiffin, and Pedro Casaldáliga.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Louis Nirenberg ranks 217 out of 1,622. Before him are George Lawrence Price (1892), Cobie Smulders (1982), Sandra Oh (1971), John T. Dunlap (1957), Phil Hartman (1948), and Terry Fox (1958). After him are Jon Vickers (1926), Ernest Burgess (1886), Marc Singer (1948), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907), Bobby Hull (1939), and David Card (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Louis Nirenberg ranks 4. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), and Albert W. Tucker (1905). After him are Edward Routh (1831), Robert Langlands (1936), William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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