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Ronald Graham

1935 - 2020

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Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935 – July 6, 2020) was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He was president of both the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, and his honors included the Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement and election to the National Academy of Sciences. After graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, Graham worked for many years at Bell Labs and later at the University of California, San Diego. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Graham has received more than 448,545 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Graham is the 553rd most popular mathematician (up from 579th in 2019), the 4,579th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,123rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ronald Graham ranks 553 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre Fatou, Max August Zorn, John Tate, Chen Jingrun, Jacques Herbrand, and Al-Qalqashandi. After him are Max Dehn, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Cahit Arf, Henri Brocard, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, and Paul Bernays.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ronald Graham ranks 229. Before him are Giovanna Ralli, Alain Barrière, Imre Makovecz, Andréa Parisy, Bobby Vinton, and Dimitri Kitsikis. After him are Norma Bengell, Velasio de Paolis, Sabahudin Kurt, Josef Vojta, Jaromil Jireš, and Eiko Kadono. Among people deceased in 2020, Ronald Graham ranks 269. Before him are Norma Cappagli, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Pamela Tiffin, Pedro Casaldáliga, and Barry Hulshoff. After him are Roger Carel, Mahmoud Jibril, Zenon Grocholewski, Jaswant Singh, Fou Ts'ong, and Ramadan Shalah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ronald Graham ranks 4,579 out of 20,380. Before him are Thom Barry (1950), Steve James (1952), Michael G. Wilson (1942), Paul Adelstein (1969), John Carroll Lynch (1963), and Chris Farley (1964). After him are Richard Sears (1861), Tommy Aldridge (1950), Jack Arnold (1916), Theodore Gill (1837), Buster Douglas (1960), and Michael V. Gazzo (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Ronald Graham ranks 33. Before him are Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), and John Tate (1925). After him are Haskell Curry (1900), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), and Robert Axelrod (1943).

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