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Pavel Alexandrov

1896 - 1982

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Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Alexandrov has received more than 121,896 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Pavel Alexandrov is the 290th most popular mathematician (down from 266th in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 612th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 290 out of 1,004. Before him are Kunihiko Kodaira, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Viktor Bunyakovsky, and Michael Maestlin. After him are Helge von Koch, Issai Schur, William George Horner, Yi Xing, Liu Xin, and Vergilius of Salzburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 86. Before him are Morarji Desai, Aspasia Manos, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ruth Gordon, Mao Dun, and Ludwik Fleck. After him are Iona Yakir, Hinrich Lohse, Wilhelm Ackermann, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Faina Ranevskaya, and Rudolf Schmundt. Among people deceased in 1982, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 83. Before him are Werner Naumann, Roberto Calvi, King Vidor, Henry King, Jean Girault, and Djuna Barnes. After him are Valerio Zurlini, Bess Truman, Isa Miranda, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Gara Garayev, and Helene Deutsch.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 653 out of 3,761. Before him are Pavel Dybenko (1889), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Taihō Kōki (1940), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), and Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301). After him are Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Nina Kulagina (1926), Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861), and Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 15. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), and Lev Pontryagin (1908). After him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Igor Ansoff (1918), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Sergei Novikov (1938), and Rudolf Lipschitz (1832).

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