1919 - 2017
Raymond Merrill Smullyan (; May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Smullyan has received more than 380,903 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Smullyan is the 372nd most popular mathematician (down from 315th in 2019), the 3,172nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,557th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Raymond Smullyan ranks 372 out of 823. Before him are Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Jim Simons, David Cox, Yang Hui, and Gemma Frisius. After him are Zhu Shijie, László Lovász, Otto Hesse, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Igor Shafarevich, and Elwin Bruno Christoffel.
786 - 833
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 366
1800 - 1834
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 367
1938 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 368
1924 - 2022
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 369
1238 - 1298
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 370
1508 - 1555
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 371
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 372
1249 - 1314
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 373
1948 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 374
1811 - 1874
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 375
1903 - 1996
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 376
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 377
1829 - 1900
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 378
Among people born in 1919, Raymond Smullyan ranks 109. Before him are Silva Kaputikyan, Amrita Pritam, Ahmed Abdallah, Anatoly Dobrynin, Edoardo Mangiarotti, and Tomáš Špidlík. After him are Gene Barry, Maurice Hilleman, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Bep Voskuijl, and Julia Robinson. Among people deceased in 2017, Raymond Smullyan ranks 157. Before him are Quett Masire, Robert James Waller, Shadia, Joachim Meisner, Seijun Suzuki, and Manuel Sanchís Martínez. After him are Richard Anderson, Mustafa Tlass, William Peter Blatty, Igor Shafarevich, Brunhilde Pomsel, and Predrag Matvejević.
1919 - 2006
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 103
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 104
1919 - 1989
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 105
1919 - 2010
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 106
1919 - 2012
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 107
1919 - 2010
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 108
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 109
1919 - 2009
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 110
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 111
1919 - 1979
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 112
1919 - 2004
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 113
1919 - 1983
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 114
1919 - 1985
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 115
1925 - 2017
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 151
1939 - 2017
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 152
1931 - 2017
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 153
1933 - 2017
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 154
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 155
1938 - 2017
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 156
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 157
1926 - 2017
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 158
1932 - 2017
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 159
1928 - 2017
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 160
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 161
1911 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 162
1932 - 2017
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 163
Among people born in United States, Raymond Smullyan ranks 3,172 out of 18,182. Before him are Katharine Houghton (1945), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), Marty Friedman (1962), Julian Rotter (1916), Jackie Cooper (1922), and Frank Beard (1949). After him are Howard S. Becker (1928), John Barth (1930), DMX (1970), Abe Vigoda (1921), Elbridge Gerry (1744), and Albert Ghiorso (1915).
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 3,166
1860 - 1935
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 3,167
1962 - Present
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 3,168
1916 - 2014
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 3,169
1922 - 2011
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 3,170
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 3,171
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 3,172
1928 - 2023
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 3,173
1930 - Present
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 3,174
1970 - 2021
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 3,175
1921 - 2016
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 3,176
1744 - 1814
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 3,177
1915 - 2010
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 3,178
Among mathematicians born in United States, Raymond Smullyan ranks 22. Before him are Jesse Douglas (1897), Richard Hamming (1915), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), John G. Thompson (1932), and Jim Simons (1938). After him are Julia Robinson (1919), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), and George David Birkhoff (1884).
1897 - 1965
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 16
1915 - 1998
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 17
1930 - Present
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 18
1878 - 1955
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 19
1932 - Present
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 20
1938 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 21
1919 - 2017
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 22
1919 - 1985
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 23
1909 - 1994
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 24
1920 - 1984
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 25
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 26
1944 - 2019
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 27
1884 - 1944
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 28