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MATHEMATICIAN

Oscar Zariski

1899 - 1986

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Oscar Zariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Zariski has received more than 188,050 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Oscar Zariski is the 437th most popular mathematician (down from 426th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 81st in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oscar Zariski ranks 437 out of 823Before him are Hans Freudenthal, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Thomas Wright, Johann Samuel König, Pierre François Verhulst, and Klaus Roth. After him are Vladimir Smirnov, Robert Langlands, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Kurt Hensel, Max Dehn, and Peter Lax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Oscar Zariski ranks 122Before him are Leonid Leonov, Paul Schmidt, Fritz von Opel, Iskander Mirza, Aleksandr Deyneka, and Francis Ponge. After him are Zhang Daqian, František Tomášek, Harold Abrahams, Zaki al-Arsuzi, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, and Anita Berber. Among people deceased in 1986, Oscar Zariski ranks 112Before him are Liu Bocheng, Desi Arnaz, John Bagot Glubb, Gregory Jarvis, Géza von Radványi, and Harold Arlen. After him are Mika Antić, Sandro Puppo, Teddy Wilson, Robert Stevenson, Hoàng Văn Thái, and Vasily Ignatenko.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Oscar Zariski ranks 90 out of 330Before him are Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), January Suchodolski (1797), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Sergei Aleinikov (1961), Anatoly Chubais (1955), and Itzhak Katzenelson (1886). After him are Symeon of Polotsk (1629), Ales Adamovich (1927), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), and Zivia Lubetkin (1914).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belarus

Among mathematicians born in Belarus, Oscar Zariski ranks 1After him are Issai Schur (1875), Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), Lev Schnirelmann (1905), and Boris Galerkin (1871).