MATHEMATICIAN

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 145,468 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Montague is the 611th most popular mathematician (down from 545th in 2019), the 5,185th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,736th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Montague ranks 611 out of 1,004. Before him are Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, Luigi Bianchi, Ilia Vekua, Grete Hermann, and Friedrich Waismann. After him are Rózsa Péter, Carl Adam Petri, Jan Śniadecki, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, and Jean Bourgain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Richard Montague ranks 319. Before him are Yoshinori Shigematsu, Bradford Dillman, Jānis Krūmiņš, Yuri Rytkheu, Alevtina Kolchina, and Albert S. Ruddy. After him are Wilferd Madelung, Viktor Tsybulenko, Henri Coppens, Pat McCormick, Liviu Librescu, and Horst Bienek. Among people deceased in 1971, Richard Montague ranks 132. Before him are William F. Albright, David Sarnoff, Chester Conklin, Rockwell Kent, Paruyr Sevak, and Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi. After him are Jean-Pierre Monseré, Bengt Ekerot, Shunryū Suzuki, Jo Cals, Simon Vestdijk, and Juhan Smuul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Montague ranks 5,185 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly LeBrock (1960), Brenda Strong (1960), Louis C.K. (1967), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Jeff Conaway (1950), and Troy Donahue (1936). After him are Jacob Perkins (1766), LL Cool J (1968), Pat Smear (1959), Ralph Linton (1893), Charlie Wilson (1933), and Sam J. Jones (1954).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard Montague ranks 38. Before him are John Tate (1925), Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), and Michael Freedman (1951). After him are Robert Axelrod (1943), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Harold Hotelling (1895), Oswald Veblen (1880), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), and Kenneth Appel (1932).

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