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Serge Lang

1927 - 2005

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Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group. As an activist, Lang campaigned against the Vietnam War, and also successfully fought against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Serge Lang has received more than 331,097 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Serge Lang is the 683rd most popular mathematician (down from 530th in 2019), the 4,169th most popular biography from France (down from 3,391st in 2019) and the 93rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Serge Lang ranks 683 out of 1,004. Before him are Henry Dudeney, Vladimir Drinfeld, Alfréd Rényi, Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, and Otto Toeplitz. After him are David Gale, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Edmond Laguerre, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, and Giovanni Battista Zupi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Serge Lang ranks 282. Before him are Tihomir Ognjanov, George O. Abell, Harold Brown, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Jan Myrdal, and Joachim Fuchsberger. After him are Arturo Armando Molina, Otto Stich, Oskar Pastior, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Håkon Brusveen, and Thomas S. Monson. Among people deceased in 2005, Serge Lang ranks 202. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane, Larry Collins, Charles David Keeling, Abdallah Ibrahim, John Love, and William Rehnquist. After him are Ossie Davis, Jesús Moncada, Vladimir Kotelnikov, John Vernon, Rong Yiren, and Constant Nieuwenhuys.

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In France

Among people born in France, Serge Lang ranks 4,169 out of 6,770. Before him are Alfred Lacroix (1863), Maurice Feltin (1883), Renée Adorée (1898), Raymond Kaelbel (1932), Yves Giraud-Cabantous (1904), and Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835). After him are Paul Paray (1886), Pierre Adet (1763), Jean Cavaillès (1903), Maurice Boitel (1919), Roger Ducret (1888), and Yvonne Loriod (1924).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Serge Lang ranks 93. Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Charles Dupin (1784), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), and Pierre-Louis Lions (1956). After him are Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Pierre Raymond de Montmort (1678), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790).

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