MATHEMATICIAN

Solomon Lefschetz

1884 - 1972

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Solomon Lefschetz (Russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Solomon Lefschetz has received more than 233,784 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Solomon Lefschetz is the 516th most popular mathematician (up from 549th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,306th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Solomon Lefschetz has had the most page views in the with 24,180 views, followed by Chinese (3,669), and Russian (2,251). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (336.15%), Egyptian Arabic (92.27%), and Haitian (87.99%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Solomon Lefschetz ranks 516 out of 1,004. Before him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, Kushyar Gilani, Hermann Bondi, Peter Lax, and 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk. After him are William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Jai Singh II, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Carl Neumann, and Julia Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Solomon Lefschetz ranks 108. Before him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Henri Queuille, Sekula Drljević, Bernhard Goetzke, Maxwell Perkins, and Harrison Ford. After him are Marcel Granet, Rickard Sandler, Maciej Rataj, Jaan Anvelt, Evelyn Nesbit, and Billie Burke. Among people deceased in 1972, Solomon Lefschetz ranks 118. Before him are Friedrich Christiansen, Raúl Leoni, Bruce Cabot, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, and Robert Casadesus. After him are Gustav Wiederkehr, Erik Eriksen, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Max Aub, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, and Thomas C. Kinkaid.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Solomon Lefschetz ranks 1,218 out of 3,761. Before him are Olga Sanfirova (1917), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), and Artaxias III (-13). After him are Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Alexander Kutepov (1882), Nikolai Noskov (1956), and Sergei Shtemenko (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Solomon Lefschetz ranks 32. Before him are Grigory Margulis (1946), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Nikolai Luzin (1883), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906). After him are Carl Neumann (1832), Nina Bari (1901), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Dmitri Egorov (1869), Boris Delaunay (1890), and Aleksey Krylov (1863).

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