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Walter Rudin

1921 - 2010

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Walter Rudin (May 2, 1921 – May 20, 2010) was an Austrian-American mathematician and professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to his contributions to complex and harmonic analysis, Rudin was known for his mathematical analysis textbooks: Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Real and Complex Analysis, and Functional Analysis. Rudin wrote Principles of Mathematical Analysis only two years after obtaining his Ph.D. from Duke University, while he was a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at MIT. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Rudin has received more than 288,052 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Rudin is the 664th most popular mathematician (down from 661st in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from Austria (down from 750th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Walter Rudin ranks 664 out of 823. Before him are Axel Thue, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Fritz Noether, Ion Barbu, and Leonard Eugene Dickson. After him are D. R. Kaprekar, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Sofya Yanovskaya, Max Newman, Spiru Haret, and Giuseppe Vitali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Rudin ranks 280. Before him are Yuri Ozerov, Jean Richard, János Pilinszky, Ferenc Karinthy, George Nader, and Jan Sterling. After him are Heinrich Schmid, Chico Hamilton, Karen Hoff, H. C. Artmann, Michel Boisrond, and Phạm Duy. Among people deceased in 2010, Walter Rudin ranks 242. Before him are Abbey Lincoln, Harold Gould, Anneliese Rothenberger, Jamie Gillis, Takeshi Shudo, and Vitaly Sevastyanov. After him are Robert B. Parker, Geoffrey Burbidge, Lhasa de Sela, Carla Del Poggio, John Wooden, and Hans van Mierlo.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Rudin ranks 770 out of 1,237. Before him are Josef Uridil (1895), Joe May (1880), Karl Zischek (1910), Anton Walbrook (1896), Hans Moravec (1948), and Elise Richter (1865). After him are Georg Braun (1907), Luise Fleck (1873), Otto Herschmann (1877), Anna von Mildenburg (1872), Klaus Dibiasi (1947), and Dieter Quester (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Walter Rudin ranks 14. Before him are Karl Menger (1902), Philipp Frank (1884), Hermann Bondi (1919), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), and Friedrich Waismann (1896). After him are Hilda Geiringer (1893), Helena Rasiowa (1917), and Leopold Vietoris (1891).

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