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Vladimir Drinfeld

1954 - Today

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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 renowned 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 157,470 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vladimir Drinfeld is the 640th most popular mathematician (up from 658th in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 564th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 640 out of 823Before him are Carl Neumann, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Thoralf Skolem, Claude Chevalley, and Shigefumi Mori. After him are Paul Bernays, Paul du Bois-Reymond, John Tate, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Guido Castelnuovo, and Friedrich Waismann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 234Before him are Jaume Bartumeu, Joep Lange, Ken Stott, Mario Testino, Graziano Rossi, and Francis Buchholz. After him are Joe Jackson, Yumi Matsutoya, Joseph-Antoine Bell, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Larry Van Kriedt, and Bob Rock.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 592 out of 1,083Before him are Jacek Kuroń (1934), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Roman Vlad (1919), Alexander Tairov (1885), Yuri Shaporin (1887), and Isaak Khalatnikov (1919). After him are Georgy Langemak (1898), Oksana Zabuzhko (1960), Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Natalya Meklin (1922), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), and Nicholas Charnetsky (1884).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Vladimir Drinfeld ranks 17Before him are Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), and Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801). After him are Mark Krein (1907), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Stanisław Zaremba (1863), Stanisław Mazur (1905), Alexander Ostrowski (1893), and Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894).