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Yutaka Taniyama

1927 - 1958

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Yutaka Taniyama (谷山 豊, Taniyama Yutaka, 12 November 1927 – 17 November 1958) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yutaka Taniyama has received more than 210,095 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yutaka Taniyama is the 463rd most popular mathematician (down from 380th in 2019), the 862nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 749th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 463 out of 1,004. Before him are Yuri Manin, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, William Kingdon Clifford, Adriaan van Roomen, Ernst Schröder, and Terence Tao. After him are Frigyes Riesz, Jean Leray, Eric Temple Bell, Isadore Singer, Hermann Hankel, and Raoul Bott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 175. Before him are Endel Tulving, Martha Chase, Marcel Ophüls, Werner Liebrich, Ales Adamovich, and Lee Konitz. After him are Josef Posipal, Ahmadou Kourouma, Stuart Rosenberg, Juan Alonso, Sadako Ogata, and Gisèle Halimi. Among people deceased in 1958, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 81. Before him are John Boland, Maurice Germot, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Varvara Stepanova, Marie Stopes, and Salama Moussa. After him are Ronald Colman, Vittorio Ambrosio, Douglas Mawson, Henry Kuttner, Isidora Sekulić, and Cândido Rondon.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 862 out of 6,245. Before him are Taizo Kawamoto (1914), Takeshi Kamo (1915), Ichiro Hosotani (1946), Akio Toyoda (1956), Ken Naganuma (1930), and Asakura Yoshikage (1533). After him are Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Juzo Itami (1933), Arima Harunobu (1567), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), and Koichi Tohei (1920).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 6. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), and Goro Shimura (1930). After him are Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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