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Sergei Sobolev

1908 - 1989

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Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, FRSE (Russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Со́болев; 6 October 1908 – 3 January 1989) was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. Sobolev introduced notions that are now fundamental for several areas of mathematics. Sobolev spaces can be defined by some growth conditions on the Fourier transform. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Sobolev has received more than 97,444 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Sobolev is the 332nd most popular mathematician (down from 327th in 2019), the 756th most popular biography from Russia (up from 769th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sergei Sobolev ranks 332 out of 1,004. Before him are Maurice René Fréchet, Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, and Guidobaldo del Monte. After him are Guillaume Postel, Pietro Cataldi, Nicholas Mercator, Sergei Novikov, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, and Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Sergei Sobolev ranks 107. Before him are Ahmad Shukeiri, Jacques Massu, Bruno Lüdke, Edgar Faure, Van Heflin, and Lew Ayres. After him are Arturo Frondizi, Vazgen I, Harold Holt, Sarit Thanarat, Jean Delannoy, and Nicholas Kaldor. Among people deceased in 1989, Sergei Sobolev ranks 94. Before him are Józef Cyrankiewicz, Mihály Lantos, Giuseppe Siri, Nicolás Guillén, Barbara W. Tuchman, and Franz Binder. After him are Carlos Puebla, René Moawad, Ahmed Abdallah, Ondrej Nepela, Charles Vanel, and Anthony Quayle.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Sobolev ranks 756 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Vasili Mitrokhin (1922), Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), and Alexander Shliapnikov (1885). After him are Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754), Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Alexander Antonov (1889), and Konstantin Korovin (1861).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Sergei Sobolev ranks 19. Before him are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Igor Ansoff (1918), and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912). After him are Sergei Novikov (1938), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Kurt Hensel (1861), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Otto Hesse (1811), and Yakov Sinai (1935).

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