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MATHEMATICIAN

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 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marina Ratner is the 734th most popular mathematician (down from 614th in 2019), the 1,811th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,326th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marina Ratner ranks 734 out of 823Before her are Wendelin Werner, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, William Henry Young, Leonard Nelson, Yitang Zhang, and Vaughan Jones. After her are Laurent Lafforgue, Charles Fefferman, Francesco Brioschi, Leo Königsberger, Ludwig Schläfli, and Benjamin Robins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Marina Ratner ranks 391Before her are Reni Santoni, Michael Murphy, Dolores Hart, Gyula Török, Hudson Austin, and Yvonne Rüegg. After her are Halina Górecka, Fischer Black, Edem Kodjo, Viktor Konovalenko, Marilyn Ferguson, and Fred Stolle. Among people deceased in 2017, Marina Ratner ranks 375Before her are Heather Menzies, Nikos Koundouros, Ezio Pascutti, Sandra Reemer, Walter Lassally, and Hiromi Tsuru. After her are Andrey Zaliznyak, Rob Gonsalves, Terele Pávez, Daniel Viglietti, Barbara Hale, and Vladimir Levenshtein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marina Ratner ranks 1,811 out of 3,262Before her are Yuly Shokalsky (1856), Daniil Kvyat (1994), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Anna Chapman (1982), Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861), and Natalia Molchanova (1962). After her are Alexander Voeikov (1842), Dmitry Anuchin (1843), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Fyodor Volkov (1729), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), and Alexandr Romankov (1953).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Marina Ratner ranks 51Before her are Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Dmitry Grave (1863), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), and Pyotr Novikov (1901). After her are Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), and Vladimir Voevodsky (1966).