MATHEMATICIAN

Pyotr Novikov

1901 - 1975

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Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Серге́евич Но́виков; 28 August 1901, Moscow – 9 January 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician. Novikov is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and his progress in the Burnside problem. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957 for proving the undecidability of the word problem in groups.In 1953, he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Novikov has received more than 32,538 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Pyotr Novikov is the 795th most popular mathematician (down from 720th in 2019), the 1,998th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,765th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Over the past year Pyotr Novikov has had the most page views in the with 5,234 views, followed by English (4,427), and Polish (578). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (106.64%), Piedmontese (71.51%), and Egyptian Arabic (63.08%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pyotr Novikov ranks 795 out of 1,004. Before him are Horace Lamb, Erich Hecke, Christine Darden, Morris Kline, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, and Grigore Moisil. After him are Francesco Brioschi, Andrzej Mostowski, Eugene Dynkin, Ngô Bảo Châu, Marcel Riesz, and Grace Chisholm Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Pyotr Novikov ranks 269. Before him are Erich Rademacher, Spyridon Marinatos, Ernesto Chaparro, Gerald Finzi, Heðin Brú, and Samuel Zauber. After him are Leopoldo Conti, Luis Brunetto, Dorothy Hansine Andersen, Jean Prévost, Aleksandr Andronov, and Marieluise Fleißer. Among people deceased in 1975, Pyotr Novikov ranks 213. Before him are Ali Sastroamidjojo, Arthur Bliss, Erico Verissimo, Otto Winzer, Thomas Hart Benton, and Nils Eriksen. After him are Andrzej Mostowski, Alice Catherine Evans, Viktor Anichkin, Paul Peter Meouchi, László Németh, and Adrienne Bolland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Novikov ranks 1,998 out of 3,761. Before him are Sainkho Namtchylak (1957), Gennady Logofet (1942), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), and Tamara Makarova (1907). After him are Yuri Baturin (1949), Georgi Yumatov (1926), Roman Pavlyuchenko (1981), Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875), Igor Akinfeev (1986), and Eugene Dynkin (1924).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Pyotr Novikov ranks 52. Before him are Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929). After him are Eugene Dynkin (1924), Marina Ratner (1938), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), and Sergey Nikolsky (1905).

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