MATHEMATICIAN

Solomon W. Golomb

1932 - 2016

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Solomon Wolf Golomb ( gə-LOHM; May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016) was an American mathematician, engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. Most notably, he invented Cheskers (a hybrid between chess and checkers) in 1948. He also fully described polyominoes in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Solomon W. Golomb has received more than 184,429 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Solomon W. Golomb is the 757th most popular mathematician (down from 715th in 2019), the 7,015th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,003rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Solomon W. Golomb ranks 757 out of 1,004. Before him are Anatoly Maltsev, Spiru Haret, Gladys West, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Giuseppe Vitali, and Joseph-Alfred Serret. After him are Vladimir Levenshtein, Johann Faulhaber, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sulochana Gadgil, Jacques-Louis Lions, and Rudy Rucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Solomon W. Golomb ranks 337. Before him are Soon-Tek Oh, Richard Lugar, Casey Kasem, Frank Beyer, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, and István Bilek. After him are Clifton Williams, Cesare Perdisa, John Lyons, Els Borst, Jacques Roubaud, and Bruce Glover. Among people deceased in 2016, Solomon W. Golomb ranks 349. Before him are Sándor Tarics, Hugh O'Brian, Gilbert Kaplan, Suat Mamat, Terence Bayler, and Tom Hayden. After him are Whitney Smith, Arthur Harnden, Raúl Cárdenas, Adolf Born, Eliseo Prado, and Bobby Vee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Solomon W. Golomb ranks 7,015 out of 20,380. Before him are Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877), Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944), Lillian Copeland (1904), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), James Juvenal (1874), and Byron Haskin (1899). After him are Clifton Williams (1932), Norman Mineta (1931), Harve Presnell (1933), Craig Sheffer (1960), Chanel Preston (1985), and John F. MacArthur (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Solomon W. Golomb ranks 49. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), Charles Fefferman (1949), and Gladys West (1930). After him are Rudy Rucker (1946), Gilbert Strang (1934), Martin Davis (1928), Hassler Whitney (1907), Edward O. Thorp (1932), and Joseph Keller (1923).

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