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Paul Cohen

1934 - 2007

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Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Cohen has received more than 274,125 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Paul Cohen is the 275th most popular mathematician (up from 309th in 2019), the 2,193rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,588th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 270k

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  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Cohen ranks 275 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl David Tolmé Runge, Atle Selberg, Karen Uhlenbeck, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Shing-Tung Yau, and Abū Sahl al-Qūhī. After him are Lev Pontryagin, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, Edward Waring, and Lloyd Shapley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Paul Cohen ranks 115. Before him are Kisho Kurokawa, Tony Hoare, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, and Kira Muratova. After him are Gloria Steinem, Howard Martin Temin, Wilford Brimley, Jean Chrétien, Dashrath Manjhi, and Hank Aaron. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Cohen ranks 86. Before him are Mika Špiljak, Nobuo Matsunaga, Kisho Kurokawa, Atle Selberg, Maurice Papon, and Denny Doherty. After him are Teddy Kollek, Arawa Kimura, Karel Svoboda, Hrant Dink, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, and Ralph Asher Alpher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Cohen ranks 2,193 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry King (1886), Anna Moffo (1932), Charles M. Rice (1952), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Doc Holliday (1851), and Dexter Gordon (1923). After him are Dorothy Parker (1893), Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), Patricia Clarkson (1959), Michael Emerson (1954), Don S. Davis (1942), and Linda Blair (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Paul Cohen ranks 12. Before him are Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Jesse Douglas (1897), and Karen Uhlenbeck (1942). After him are Lloyd Shapley (1923), John Milnor (1931), John G. Thompson (1932), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), and Sam Loyd (1841).

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