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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 278,881 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rudy Rucker is the 768th most popular mathematician (down from 725th in 2019), the 8,008th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,702nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

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  • 2.64

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rudy Rucker ranks 768 out of 823. Before her are Mary Everest Boole, William Hopkins, Robin Hartshorne, William Gemmell Cochran, Øystein Ore, and Dmitri Anosov. After her are Ngô Bảo Châu, Raoul Bott, Georges de Rham, Joseph Wedderburn, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, and Francesco Severi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Rudy Rucker ranks 518. Before her are Brian Henton, Gilda Radner, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Andy Mackay, Leif Mortensen, and Noddy Holder. After her are Viivi Luik, Robin Cook, Hiroshi Ochiai, Blair Brown, Ricky Jay, and Erich Beer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rudy Rucker ranks 8,008 out of 18,182. Before her are Robert R. Wilson (1914), Aimee Garcia (1978), Dana Carvey (1955), Joan Van Ark (1943), Gerald Guralnik (1936), and Ed Begley Jr. (1949). After her are Wayne Static (1965), Larry Kramer (1935), Dwight Howard (1985), Lucy Hale (1989), June Gable (1945), and Bobby Hutcherson (1941).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Rudy Rucker ranks 55. Before her are Charles Fefferman (1949), Dennis Sullivan (1941), Hassler Whitney (1907), Richard Garfield (1963), Gregory Chaitin (1947), and Robin Hartshorne (1938). After her are Joseph Keller (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Marston Morse (1892), and Ormond Stone (1847).

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