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Michael Atiyah

1929 - 2019

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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Atiyah has received more than 927,468 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Michael Atiyah is the 207th most popular mathematician (down from 179th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 889th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Mathematician.

Michael Atiyah is most famous for his work in algebraic geometry, which he did with Isadore Singer.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Atiyah ranks 207 out of 1,004. Before him are Theodorus of Cyrene, Richard von Mises, Paul Guldin, Tullio Levi-Civita, Paolo Ruffini, and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi. After him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, and Antoine Augustin Cournot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Michael Atiyah ranks 97. Before him are Isabel Sarli, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Fernanda Montenegro, Lorenzo Buffon, and Stirling Moss. After him are Chespirito, David Kelly, Paul Lauterbur, Věra Chytilová, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, and José Santamaría. Among people deceased in 2019, Michael Atiyah ranks 67. Before him are Michel Serres, Henri, Count of Paris, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Yury Luzhkov, and Matti Nykänen. After him are Rosamunde Pilcher, Alicia Alonso, Ratko Janev, Paul Greengard, Dragoslav Šekularac, and Jan-Michael Vincent.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Atiyah ranks 934 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Hailey (1920), Karl Jenkins (1944), Samuel Pepys (1633), John Harvard (1607), Carol Reed (1906), and Duncan Edwards (1936). After him are Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Thomas Lipton (1848), Orlando Bloom (1977), Richard Stone (1913), Guy Ritchie (1968), and Arthur Drewry (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Michael Atiyah ranks 20. Before him are Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Oughtred (1574), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Arthur Cayley (1821), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), and James Gregory (1638). After him are Henry Briggs (1561), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), Thomas Simpson (1710), John Horton Conway (1937), and John Wilkins (1614).

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