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Richard Montague

1930 - 1971

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Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Montague has received more than 135,586 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Montague is the 547th most popular mathematician (down from 447th in 2019), the 4,748th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,574th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Montague ranks 547 out of 823. Before him are Harold Hotelling, Dmitri Egorov, John Cairncross, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, August Leopold Crelle, and Martin Kutta. After him are Sylvestre François Lacroix, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Jai Singh II, Solomon Lefschetz, Ian Stewart, and Johann Baptist Cysat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Richard Montague ranks 276. Before him are William R. Pogue, Hank Mobley, Jan Olszewski, Robert Prosky, Egon Klepsch, and Rolf Hoppe. After him are Lothar Wolleh, Yuri Rytkheu, Orvar Bergmark, Rubén Morán, Ken Naganuma, and Sonja Edström. Among people deceased in 1971, Richard Montague ranks 120. Before him are Lester Germer, Bobby Jones, Gladys Cooper, Kathleen Lonsdale, Paruyr Sevak, and Harald Öhquist. After him are Bengt Ekerot, Wynton Kelly, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Shunryū Suzuki, Simon Vestdijk, and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Montague ranks 4,748 out of 18,182. Before him are Barry Bonds (1964), Mitchell Ryan (1928), Haddon Sundblom (1899), Parry O'Brien (1932), Samuel Jones (1880), and David Chase (1945). After him are Art Farmer (1928), Stephen Collins (1947), Joe Haldeman (1943), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Strom Thurmond (1902), and Broderick Crawford (1911).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard Montague ranks 34. Before him are George David Birkhoff (1884), William Thurston (1946), Haskell Curry (1900), Isadore Singer (1924), Robert Axelrod (1943), and Harold Hotelling (1895). After him are Michael Freedman (1951), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Ronald Graham (1935), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Louis J. Mordell (1888), and Saunders Mac Lane (1909).

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