MATHEMATICIAN

William Kahan

1933 - Today

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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis", was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kahan has received more than 170,747 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). William Kahan is the 729th most popular mathematician (down from 712th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Canada (up from 376th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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  • 48.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Kahans by language

Over the past year William Kahan has had the most page views in the with 21,551 views, followed by Chinese (2,321), and German (1,352). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (68.20%), Esperanto (60.27%), and Azerbaijani (50.85%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Kahan ranks 729 out of 1,004. Before him are Maxim Kontsevich, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Charles Hutton, Alicia Boole Stott, Axel Thue, and Wilhelm Killing. After him are Oswald Teichmüller, Stanisław Zaremba, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Antanas Mockus, Leonard Nelson, and Mikhail Lavrentyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, William Kahan ranks 347. Before him are Michael Frayn, Bob Bondurant, Alfredo Landa, Semyon Farada, Ela Bhatt, and Yelena Gorchakova. After him are Valentin Bubukin, Don Thompson, Ira Murchison, Bengt Berndtsson, Reiner Kunze, and Imants Ziedonis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Kahan ranks 341 out of 1,622. Before him are Harriet Brooks (1876), Michael Sarrazin (1940), George London (1920), Mary Pierce (1975), Samuel Cunard (1787), and George Chuvalo (1937). After him are Len Cariou (1939), Victor Jory (1902), Arthur Meighen (1874), Brian Orser (1961), Richard Manuel (1943), and Jean-Marc Vallée (1963).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, William Kahan ranks 7. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), Albert W. Tucker (1905), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Edward Routh (1831), and Robert Langlands (1936). After him are James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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