MATHEMATICIAN

Stephen Smale

1930 - Today

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Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Smale has received more than 386,524 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Stephen Smale is the 324th most popular mathematician (up from 344th in 2019), the 2,562nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,918th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stephen Smale ranks 324 out of 1,004. Before him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Abraham Wald, Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, and Shiing-Shen Chern. After him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Maurice René Fréchet, Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, and René-Louis Baire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Stephen Smale ranks 147. Before him are James Baker, Eugenio Castellotti, Bernard Collomb, Tanya Savicheva, Stephen Sondheim, and Philippe Leroy. After him are Tony Lip, Tom Wolfe, Choe Thae-bok, Manuel Marulanda, Viktor Tikhonov, and José Águas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Smale ranks 2,562 out of 20,380. Before him are Donna Murphy (1959), Sarah Wayne Callies (1977), Ralph Waite (1928), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Rita Wilson (1956), and Dianne Feinstein (1933). After him are Bob Woodward (1943), Walter Cunningham (1932), Irving Baxter (1876), Russ Meyer (1922), Gia Carangi (1960), and Tony Lip (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Stephen Smale ranks 16. Before him are Jesse Douglas (1897), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Paul Cohen (1934), Lloyd Shapley (1923), John Milnor (1931), and John G. Thompson (1932). After him are Edward Kasner (1878), Sam Loyd (1841), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), and Richard S. Hamilton (1943).

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