MATHEMATICIAN

Simon Donaldson

1957 - Today

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Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Donaldson has received more than 276,266 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Simon Donaldson is the 844th most popular mathematician (down from 740th in 2019), the 4,347th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,875th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Simon Donaldson ranks 844 out of 1,004. Before him are William Feller, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Walther von Dyck, Marshall Harvey Stone, and Thomas Henderson. After him are John H. Coates, Marston Morse, I. J. Good, Dmitri Anosov, Shinichi Mochizuki, and Corrado Segre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Simon Donaldson ranks 363. Before him are Pino Palladino, Fernando Chui, Dwight Lodeweges, Ronald Plasterk, Ron Cephas Jones, and Lisa Murkowski. After him are Jennifer Batten, Silvio Orlando, Karen Pence, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Bruce Payne, and Rosalind Chao.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Donaldson ranks 4,347 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gardner (1926), William Henry Dean (1887), Richard D. Ryder (1940), Michael Crawford (1942), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), and Thomas Henderson (1798). After him are Stephen Spender (1909), Conleth Hill (1964), James Corden (1978), Adam Godley (1964), Malcolm Campbell (1885), and Ernest Belfort Bax (1854).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Simon Donaldson ranks 89. Before him are Frank Morley (1860), Mary Everest Boole (1832), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Peter Tait (1831), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), and Thomas Henderson (1798). After him are I. J. Good (1916), Richard Taylor (1962), William Shanks (1812), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Thomas Heath (1861), and Philip Hall (1904).

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