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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 301,353 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Walter Rudin is the 771st most popular mathematician (down from 661st in 2019), the 913th most popular biography from Austria (down from 765th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Walter Rudin ranks 771 out of 1,004. Before him are Benjamin Robins, William Henry Young, Giuseppe Veronese, Yitang Zhang, Leonida Tonelli, and Gilbert Strang. After him are Wendelin Werner, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Oskar Perron, Franz Mertens, Gu Chaohao, and Vaughan Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Rudin ranks 328. Before him are Richard Egan, Ursula Franklin, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Ben Bradlee, Wu Xueqian, and Edith Farkas. After him are Nando González, Diana Barrymore, Joe Sutter, Joonas Kokkonen, Daniel Oduber Quirós, and János Pilinszky. Among people deceased in 2010, Walter Rudin ranks 300. Before him are Geoffrey Burbidge, Kathryn Grayson, Takeshi Shudo, Raúl Belén, Eino Tamberg, and Edoardo Sanguineti. After him are José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Dorothy Provine, Olga Guillot, Tom Walkinshaw, Frederick C. Weyand, and Carlos Monsiváis.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Rudin ranks 913 out of 1,424. Before him are Marie Jahoda (1907), Rudolf Viertl (1902), Eva Pawlik (1927), Riane Eisler (1931), Josef Hassmann (1910), and Eva Rueber-Staier (1951). After him are Josef Smistik (1905), Adolf Kainz (1903), Anton Walbrook (1896), Kurt Oppelt (1932), Franz West (1947), and Herwig Wolfram (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Walter Rudin ranks 16. Before him are Simon von Stampfer (1790), Friedrich Waismann (1896), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Helena Rasiowa (1917), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), and Leopold Vietoris (1891). After him are Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865).

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