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MATHEMATICIAN

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 108,822 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pavel Alexandrov is the 266th most popular mathematician (up from 283rd in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Russia (down from 600th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 266 out of 823Before him are Jean-Robert Argand, Eugène Charles Catalan, Sam Loyd, Gotthold Eisenstein, Helge von Koch, and Karen Uhlenbeck. After him are René-Louis Baire, Igor Ansoff, Joseph Bertrand, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Seki Takakazu, and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 82Before him are Salim Ali, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Tadj ol-Molouk, Ruth Gordon, Hinrich Lohse, and Mao Dun. After him are Iona Yakir, William A. Wellman, Ville Ritola, Faina Ranevskaya, Otto Hofmann, and Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa. Among people deceased in 1982, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 75Before him are Henry King, King Vidor, Tadj ol-Molouk, Elis Regina, Adolf Heusinger, and Roberto Calvi. After him are Patrick Dewaere, Alma Reville, Werner Naumann, Ville Ritola, Shiro Teshima, and Otto Hofmann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 613 out of 3,262Before him are Vladislav Volkov (1935), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), Walter Weiß (1890), John of Kronstadt (1829), and Serge Koussevitzky (1874). After him are Andrei Mironov (1941), Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), and Andrei Karlov (1954).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 13Before him are Christian Goldbach (1690), Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909). After him are Igor Ansoff (1918), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Lev Pontryagin (1908), and Sergei Sobolev (1908).