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MATHEMATICIAN

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 220,170 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Louis Nirenberg is the 483rd most popular mathematician (down from 441st in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 170th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Louis Nirenberg ranks 483 out of 823Before him are Jean Leray, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Yves Meyer, David Mumford, Erik Ivar Fredholm, and Aleksandr Khinchin. After him are Nina Bari, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Jakob Hermann, Harold Jeffreys, Paul Halmos, and William Thurston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Louis Nirenberg ranks 205Before him are Bauer, Robert Mulligan, David Warren, Art Pepper, Lenny Bruce, and Maureen Stapleton. After him are John List, John Neville, Philippe Jaccottet, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Otto Muehl, and Rubem Fonseca. Among people deceased in 2020, Louis Nirenberg ranks 230Before him are Jörn Donner, John Lewis, David Graeber, Park Won-soon, Jean Delumeau, and Ernesto Brambilla. After him are Larry Tesler, Silva Batuta, Marian Jaworski, Lee Konitz, Rubem Fonseca, and Yevgeny Shaposhnikov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Louis Nirenberg ranks 193 out of 1,350Before him are Oliver Platt (1960), René Lévesque (1922), Bret Hart (1957), Alfred Aho (1941), Ian Hacking (1936), and Gabrielle Roy (1909). After him are Barry Pepper (1970), Phil Hartman (1948), Harold Innis (1894), Alanis Morissette (1974), Paul Haggis (1953), and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

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