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Vladimir Drinfeld

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Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; Russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a mathematician from the former USSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago. Drinfeld's work connected algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the geometric Langlands correspondence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Drinfeld has received more than 173,434 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vladimir Drinfeld is the 678th most popular mathematician (down from 637th in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 589th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 678 out of 1,004. Before him are Max Newman, Ian Stewart, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, John Cairncross, E. T. Whittaker, and Henry Dudeney. After him are Alfréd Rényi, Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Otto Toeplitz, Serge Lang, and David Gale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 263. Before him are Anatoliy Kinakh, Akemi Iwata, Oscar Larrauri, Ján Kozák, Jonathan Pollard, and Pankaj Kapur. After him are Anatoly Chukanov, Antón Lamazares, Ross the Boss, Carter Burwell, Larry Van Kriedt, and David Keith.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 682 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Dudintsev (1918), Lydia Lipkowska (1882), Leonid Stadnyk (1969), Markus Reiner (1886), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929), and Lucian Pintilie (1933). After him are Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Yan Gamarnik (1894), Moriz Rosenthal (1862), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), and Łucja Frey (1889).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 19. Before him are Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Mark Krein (1907), and Jerzy Różycki (1909). After him are Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Stanisław Mazur (1905), Stanisław Zaremba (1863), Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891), Alexander Ostrowski (1893), and Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894).

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