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Oscar Zariski

1899 - 1986

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Oscar Zariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was an American mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Zariski has received more than 198,731 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Oscar Zariski is the 449th most popular mathematician (down from 436th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Belarus (down from 90th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oscar Zariski ranks 449 out of 1,004Before him are Jacques Ozanam, Christian Kramp, Whitfield Diffie, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Giovanni Antonio Magini, and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. After him are Yves Meyer, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Francesco Maurolico, Yang Hui, William Thurston, and Richard E. Bellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Oscar Zariski ranks 135Before him are Qu Qiubai, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Leonid Leonov, Nie Rongzhen, Aleksander Zawadzki, and Rufino Tamayo. After him are Armand Salacrou, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Carlos Chávez, and Norman Taurog. Among people deceased in 1986, Oscar Zariski ranks 114Before him are Scatman Crothers, Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, Dick Scobee, Fumiko Enchi, and James H. Wilkinson. After him are Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, and David Cooper.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Oscar Zariski ranks 91 out of 368Before him are Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Symeon of Polotsk (1629), and Alexander Rybak (1986). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Pola Raksa (1941), Sergei Tumansky (1901), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), and Nahum Goldmann (1895).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belarus

Among mathematicians born in Belarus, Oscar Zariski ranks 2Before him are Issai Schur (1875). After him are Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), Lev Schnirelmann (1905), and Boris Galerkin (1871).