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Yasumasa Kanada

1948 - 2020

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Yasumasa Kanada (金田 康正, Kanada Yasumasa, 1949 – 11 February 2020) was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of π. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasumasa Kanada has received more than 54,349 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yasumasa Kanada is the 800th most popular mathematician, the 1,373rd most popular biography from Japan and the 10th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 800 out of 823. Before him are Nicolas Fuss, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Roger Apéry, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Solomon Marcus, and Ivan Petrovsky. After him are Garrett Birkhoff, Richard Rado, Stanislav Smirnov, Marston Morse, Harish-Chandra, and Ormond Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 529. Before him are Diane Ackerman, Joe Roth, Roelof Wunderink, Mikheil Korkia, Atilio Ancheta, and Allan Warren. After him are Richard Masur, Nikolai Gorbachev, George Wendt, Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Horace Engdahl, and Élie Doté. Among people deceased in 2020, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 547. Before him are Gilberto Penayo, Jasraj, Ram Vilas Paswan, Khalil Taha, Naya Rivera, and Soumaïla Cissé. After him are Charlie Daniels, Ödön Földessy, Leonid Potapov, Michael Robinson, Tommy Docherty, and Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 1,373 out of 6,048. Before him are Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957), Yasutaro Matsuki (1957), Hiroki Sakai (1990), Yuriko Shima (1959), Ai Iijima (1972), and Akira Amano (1973). After him are Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1975), Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), Kazuo Echigo (1965), Junko Ishida (1966), and Jun Maeda (1975).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 10. Before him are Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Mikio Sato (1928), and Shinichi Mochizuki (1969). After him are Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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