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Marina Ratner

1938 - 2017

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Marina Evseevna Ratner (Russian: Мари́на Евсе́евна Ра́тнер; October 30, 1938 – July 7, 2017) was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. Around 1990, she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Ratner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 1993 and elected to the National Academy of Sciences the same year. In 1994, she was awarded the John J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Ratner has received more than 51,792 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marina Ratner is the 807th most popular mathematician (down from 731st in 2019), the 2,040th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,807th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Marina Ratner has had the most page views in the with 4,201 views, followed by French (1,377), and Russian (832). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (186.32%), Simple English (79.18%), and Asturian (70.48%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marina Ratner ranks 807 out of 1,004. Before her are Grace Chisholm Young, Douglas McIlroy, Frank Morley, Wolfgang Krull, Richard Rado, and Tadeusz Banachiewicz. After her are Maryna Viazovska, Carl Hindenburg, Yasumasa Kanada, Hans Lewy, Vladimir Voevodsky, and Christoph Gudermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Marina Ratner ranks 444. Before her are Boris Lagutin, Fischer Black, Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino, Kazım Ayvaz, Michael Murphy, and Paula Prentiss. After her are Bronislovas Lubys, Suhaila Siddiq, Roberto Anzolin, Eugenio Montejo, Robert Rubin, and Judith Rich Harris. Among people deceased in 2017, Marina Ratner ranks 410. Before her are Katy Bødtger, John Kundla, Marco Coll, Warren Frost, Reema Lagoo, and Vera Glagoleva. After her are Adam Darius, Vladimir Voevodsky, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Glenne Headly, Andrey Zaliznyak, and Roberto Anzolin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Ratner ranks 2,040 out of 3,761. Before her are Timofey Granovsky (1813), Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913), Nikolay Lvov (1753), Vera Glagoleva (1956), Dinara Safina (1986), and Pavel Kolchin (1930). After her are Oleg Romantsev (1954), Yury Borisov (1956), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Andrei Kolkoutine (1957), Zhanna Yorkina (1939), and Afanasy Beloborodov (1903).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Marina Ratner ranks 54. Before her are Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Pyotr Novikov (1901), and Eugene Dynkin (1924). After her are Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), and Dmitri Anosov (1936).

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