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S. R. Ranganathan

1892 - 1972

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Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan ( 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was a librarian and mathematician from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental thinking in the field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. R. Ranganathan has received more than 760,689 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). S. R. Ranganathan is the 228th most popular mathematician (down from 209th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from India (down from 151st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 228 out of 1,004. Before him are Thomas Abbt, Anatoly Fomenko, Maria Reiche, Israel Gelfand, Pierre Varignon, and L. E. J. Brouwer. After him are Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, Piet Hein, Joseph Petzval, Seymour Papert, and Gilles de Roberval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 71. Before him are Paul Abraham, Alfonsina Storni, Marcel Dassault, Edith Södergran, Mikhail Gurevich, and Germaine Tailleferre. After him are César Vallejo, Günther Blumentritt, Andrés Nin Pérez, Basil Rathbone, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, and Kang Pan-sok. Among people deceased in 1972, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 47. Before him are Fredric Brown, Louis Leakey, Lester B. Pearson, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Josep Samitier, and Karl Silberbauer. After him are Hans Scharoun, Bronislava Nijinska, Henry de Montherlant, Erwin Bowien, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, and Martiros Saryan.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 180 out of 1,861. Before him are Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Khaleda Zia (1945), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Dnyaneshwar (1275). After him are Dharmendra (1935), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), Ahilyabai Holkar (1725), Kamala Sohonie (1912), and Anthony de Mello (1931).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 5. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), and Augustus De Morgan (1806). After him are Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Harish-Chandra (1923), and Kātyāyana (-200).

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