MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Borcherds

1959 - Today

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Richard Ewen Borcherds (; born 29 November 1959) is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Borcherds has received more than 224,972 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Richard Borcherds is the 901st most popular mathematician (down from 831st in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Mathematician.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Richard Borcherds by language

Over the past year Richard Borcherds has had the most page views in the with 31,060 views, followed by Chinese (2,869), and Japanese (2,409). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (322.58%), Greek (192.50%), and Haitian (154.63%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Borcherds ranks 901 out of 1,004Before him are Clifford Truesdell, Daina Taimiņa, Adele Goldstine, Demetrios Christodoulou, James Lighthill, and Phillip Griffiths. After him are Antoni Zygmund, Javier Perez-Capdevila, Erna Schneider Hoover, W. T. Tutte, William Gemmell Cochran, and Øystein Ore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Richard Borcherds ranks 433Before him are Patxi López, Dan Gilroy, David Hyde Pierce, Ernesto Canto, Ulrike Richter, and Lika Kavzharadze. After him are Ramón Calderé, Atsushi Uchiyama, Renée Fleming, Fyodor Cherenkov, Holger Hieronymus, and Richard Baawobr.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Richard Borcherds ranks 174 out of 454Before him are David Carstens (1914), Ahmed Kathrada (1929), Dimas (1969), Jackie Pretorius (1934), Robert Sobukwe (1924), and Antjie Krog (1952). After him are Francois Botha (1968), Ilana Kloss (1956), George Hunter (1927), Constand Viljoen (1933), Zindzi Mandela (1960), and Lawrence Stevens (1913).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In South Africa

Among mathematicians born in South Africa, Richard Borcherds ranks 3Before him are Seymour Papert (1928), and Claude Chevalley (1909). After him are Peter Sarnak (1953), and Stanley Skewes (1899).