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Rudy Rucker

1946 - Today

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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudy Rucker has received more than 293,730 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rudy Rucker is the 763rd most popular mathematician (up from 765th in 2019), the 7,174th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,993rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 2.68

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rudy Rucker ranks 763 out of 1,004. Before her are Solomon W. Golomb, Vladimir Levenshtein, Johann Faulhaber, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sulochana Gadgil, and Jacques-Louis Lions. After her are Carl Størmer, Benjamin Robins, William Henry Young, Giuseppe Veronese, Yitang Zhang, and Leonida Tonelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Rudy Rucker ranks 527. Before her are Jo Bonfrère, Gordon Haskell, Roy Thomas Baker, Helen Shapiro, J. E. Freeman, and Stephen Hunter. After her are Ali Parvin, Peter Lorimer, Juan Amat, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Ángel Bargas, and René Pijnen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rudy Rucker ranks 7,174 out of 20,380. Before her are Phyllis Coates (1927), Julian Jaynes (1920), Timothy B. Schmit (1947), Rachel Chagall (1952), Ellen S. Baker (1953), and Robert Goulet (1933). After her are Peter Del Monte (1943), Willis H. O'Brien (1886), K. Eric Drexler (1955), A Martinez (1948), Calvin Smith (1961), and Sgt. Slaughter (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Rudy Rucker ranks 50. Before her are Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), Charles Fefferman (1949), Gladys West (1930), and Solomon W. Golomb (1932). After her are Gilbert Strang (1934), Martin Davis (1928), Hassler Whitney (1907), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Joseph Keller (1923), and Christine Darden (1942).

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