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Sergei Sobolev

1908 - 1989

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Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (Russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Со́болев) FRSE (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 88,846 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sergei Sobolev is the 327th most popular mathematician (down from 310th in 2019), the 771st most popular biography from Russia (down from 657th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sergei Sobolev ranks 327 out of 823. Before him are Theodor Kaluza, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Isaac Beeckman, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and John Milnor. After him are Kunihiko Kodaira, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Jean Dieudonné, Guidobaldo del Monte, Richard Courant, and George Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Sergei Sobolev ranks 110. Before him are Fyodor Okhlopkov, Sarit Thanarat, João Guimarães Rosa, Arturo Frondizi, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Aden Adde. After him are Lupe Vélez, John Tuzo Wilson, Carlo Abarth, Afet İnan, Victor Weisskopf, and Françoise Dolto. Among people deceased in 1989, Sergei Sobolev ranks 95. Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Hassan Fathy, Nicolás Guillén, Ondrej Nepela, and Carlos Puebla. After him are Franz Binder, Elisaveta Bykova, Abbie Hoffman, André Cayatte, Mel Blanc, and Hans Hellmut Kirst.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Sobolev ranks 771 out of 3,262. Before him are Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), Boris Stürmer (1848), and Yevgeny Dragunov (1920). After him are Samuil Marshak (1887), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Alexander Zinoviev (1922), Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), and Leonid Krasin (1870).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Sergei Sobolev ranks 19. Before him are Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Igor Ansoff (1918), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), and Lev Pontryagin (1908). After him are Sergei Novikov (1938), Otto Hesse (1811), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Nikolai Luzin (1883), and Grigory Margulis (1946).

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