MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Garfield

1963 - Today

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Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations.Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Garfield has received more than 1,532,046 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Garfield is the 853rd most popular mathematician (down from 744th in 2019), the 8,756th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,511th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Richard Garfields by language

Over the past year Richard Garfield has had the most page views in the with 114,823 views, followed by German (11,001), and French (10,311). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Kurmanji) (256.35%), Egyptian Arabic (160.13%), and Cantonese (95.20%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Garfield ranks 853 out of 1,004. Before him are I. J. Good, Dmitri Anosov, Shinichi Mochizuki, Corrado Segre, Radhanath Sikdar, and Don Zagier. After him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Juliusz Schauder, Yuri Linnik, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Taylor, and Hans Rademacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Richard Garfield ranks 370. Before him are Jane Luu, Kevin J. O'Connor, Florence Parly, Neil Burger, Ana Fidelia Quirot, and Hiroaki Hirata. After him are Peter Morgan, Riccardo Ferri, Sergey Kozlov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Federico Moccia, and Karl Lauterbach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Garfield ranks 8,756 out of 20,380. Before him are Lucille La Verne (1872), R. C. Sproul (1939), Harvey Korman (1927), Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Toni Basil (1943), and Jerry Jones (1942). After him are Michelle Forbes (1965), Nana Visitor (1957), Peggy Ann Garner (1932), Steve Jackson (1953), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), and Edward Angle (1855).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard Garfield ranks 66. Before him are Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Gregory Chaitin (1947), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), and Marston Morse (1892). After him are Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Michael Aschbacher (1944), Barry Mazur (1937), Norman Johnson (1930), Cleve Moler (1939), and Robin Hartshorne (1938).

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