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Richard Rado

1906 - 1989

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Richard Rado FRS (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution. He earned two PhDs: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Rado has received more than 47,001 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard Rado is the 805th most popular mathematician (down from 799th in 2019), the 4,942nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,617th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Rado ranks 805 out of 1,004. Before him are Ngô Bảo Châu, Marcel Riesz, Grace Chisholm Young, Douglas McIlroy, Frank Morley, and Wolfgang Krull. After him are Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Marina Ratner, Maryna Viazovska, Carl Hindenburg, Yasumasa Kanada, and Hans Lewy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Richard Rado ranks 322. Before him are Carl-Erik Holmberg, Plácido Galindo, Benjamin Mazar, Jean Delarge, Harry Hopman, and Nils Skoglund. After him are Richard Llewellyn, Jorge Icaza Coronel, Henry Roth, Kang Kyeong-ae, Willibald Kreß, and Gustav Schäfer. Among people deceased in 1989, Richard Rado ranks 236. Before him are Erik Almgren, Brian Naylor, Robert Körner, John Pritchard, Ewan MacColl, and Birago Diop. After him are László Papp, Willibald Kreß, Federico Saiz, Scott O'Dell, Fernando Martín Espina, and Lynn Bari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 4,942 out of 7,253. Before him are Margot Eskens (1936), Wolfgang Krull (1899), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Marius Müller-Westernhagen (1948), Eduard Sievers (1850), and Marieluise Fleißer (1901). After him are Horst Wolter (1942), Martin Lauer (1937), Robin Gosens (1994), Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Wolfgang Seidel (1926), and Hanns Seidel (1901).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 92. Before him are Erich Kähler (1906), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Johann Faulhaber (1580), Wendelin Werner (1968), Oskar Perron (1880), and Wolfgang Krull (1899). After him are Carl Hindenburg (1741), Christoph Gudermann (1798), Heinz Prüfer (1896), Friedrich Engel (1861), Walther von Dyck (1856), and Don Zagier (1951).

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