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Mitchell Feigenbaum

1944 - 2019

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Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitchell Feigenbaum has received more than 229,652 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Mitchell Feigenbaum is the 498th most popular mathematician (down from 463rd in 2019), the 4,049th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,939th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mitchell Feigenbaum ranks 498 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Raphson, Stanisław Leśniewski, Pavel Urysohn, Pierre François Verhulst, Theon of Smyrna, and John Playfair. After him are Johann Benedict Listing, John Hadley, Geminus, Anders Johan Lexell, Jean Frédéric Frenet, and Gerd Faltings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Mitchell Feigenbaum ranks 309. Before him are Robert Mueller, Odd Nerdrum, Jiří Holeček, Karel Kryl, Abbas, and Muhammad Naji al-Otari. After him are Sharmila Tagore, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Haim Saban, Rebecca Horn, Pierre Bachelet, and Yitzhak Mordechai. Among people deceased in 2019, Mitchell Feigenbaum ranks 197. Before him are Robert Evans, Sadako Ogata, Pal Benko, Scott Walker, Rudi Gutendorf, and Bob Hawke. After him are Chelo Alonso, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Charles Jencks, Claude Goretta, Prosper Grech, and Karin Balzer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mitchell Feigenbaum ranks 4,049 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Connors (1925), William Katt (1951), Big Sean (1988), Lana Wood (1946), Dorothy McGuire (1916), and Natacha Rambova (1897). After him are Jennifer Doudna (1964), Pharoah Sanders (1940), Robert Mulligan (1925), Gene Amdahl (1922), Helen B. Taussig (1898), and Kate Walsh (1967).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Mitchell Feigenbaum ranks 30. Before him are Whitfield Diffie (1944), William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), and George David Birkhoff (1884). After him are Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), Louis J. Mordell (1888), and Benjamin Peirce (1809).

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