MATHEMATICIAN

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 57,615 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yasumasa Kanada is the 810th most popular mathematician (down from 797th in 2019), the 1,375th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,370th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 810 out of 1,004. Before him are Wolfgang Krull, Richard Rado, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Marina Ratner, Maryna Viazovska, and Carl Hindenburg. After him are Hans Lewy, Vladimir Voevodsky, Christoph Gudermann, Mary Everest Boole, Cornelius Lanczos, and Arthur Geoffrey Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 524. Before him are Colleen Atwood, José Luis Capón, John Martyn, Raynald Denoueix, Hans Aabech, and Ibrahim Kuni. After him are Nancy Kress, Lajos Kű, Mikheil Korkia, Karen Wetterhahn, Jürgen Marcus, and John Foxx. Among people deceased in 2020, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 498. Before him are José Luis Capón, Tatyana Prorochenko, Efraín Sánchez, Richard Herd, Tim Severin, and Vladimír Zábrodský. After him are Charles Moore, Nathan Zach, Spencer Davis, Sergei Slonimsky, Mario Chaldú, and Suhaila Siddiq.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 1,375 out of 6,245. Before him are Toyokazu Nomura (1949), Masanori Suzuki (1968), Yasuhito Suzuki (1959), Toru Yoshikawa (1961), Aya Kitō (1962), and Nujabes (1974). After him are Koichi Kudo (1909), Kei Nishikori (1989), Kazuo Imanishi (1941), Romi Park (1972), Yuzuru Hanyu (1994), and Ichiya Kumagae (1890).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 10. Before him are Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), and Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917). After him are Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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