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Saunders Mac Lane

1909 - 2005

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Saunders Mac Lane (August 4, 1909 – April 14, 2005), born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saunders Mac Lane has received more than 268,668 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Saunders Mac Lane is the 662nd most popular mathematician (down from 598th in 2019), the 5,744th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,324th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Saunders Mac Lane ranks 662 out of 1,004. Before him are Jerzy Różycki, Johann Schreck, Nicolas Fuss, Cesare Arzelà, Oswald Veblen, and Alessandro Galilei. After him are Đuro Kurepa, Arnaud Denjoy, Kenneth Appel, Pierre-Louis Lions, Johan Jensen, and John Lennox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Saunders Mac Lane ranks 249. Before him are Arnold Badjou, Estella Agsteribbe, Milovan Jakšić, Manuel Olivares, Balamani Amma, and Wilhelmina von Bremen. After him are Ahmed Bahnini, Szymon Goldberg, Henock Abrahamsson, Clara Calamai, Guillermo Eizaguirre, and Cilly Aussem. Among people deceased in 2005, Saunders Mac Lane ranks 196. Before him are Donald Watson, Luther Vandross, Eugene McCarthy, Nirmal Verma, Barrington Moore Jr., and Sígfrid Gràcia. After him are Larry Collins, Charles David Keeling, Abdallah Ibrahim, John Love, William Rehnquist, and Serge Lang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saunders Mac Lane ranks 5,744 out of 20,380. Before him are Jorma Kaukonen (1940), Edward M. House (1858), Anita Stewart (1895), Ivanka Trump (1981), Terry Bozzio (1950), and Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909). After him are Rick Aviles (1952), Big Joe Turner (1911), Fred Alexander (1880), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Virginia Rappe (1895), and Sally Yates (1960).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Saunders Mac Lane ranks 43. Before him are Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Harold Hotelling (1895), and Oswald Veblen (1880). After him are Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), Charles Fefferman (1949), Gladys West (1930), and Solomon W. Golomb (1932).

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