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Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

1891 - 1970

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Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (or Besikovitch; Russian: Абра́м Само́йлович Безико́вич; 23 January 1891 – 2 November 1970) was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov (now in Ukraine) to a Karaite Jewish family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch is the 419th most popular mathematician (up from 732nd in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 738th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ranks 419 out of 1,004Before him are Oscar Zariski, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Roger Cotes, Jakow Trachtenberg, and Daniele Barbaro. After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum, Guido Fubini, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ignazio Danti, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, and Maryam Mirzakhani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ranks 98Before him are Scott Bradley, Charles Munch, Julius Raab, Diana Budisavljević, Shizo Kanakuri, and Danilo Ilić. After him are Maria Skobtsova, Fred Kelly, Carl W. Stalling, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Sultan al-Atrash, and Ronald Colman. Among people deceased in 1970, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ranks 104Before him are Pavel Belyayev, Maud Lewis, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Lucien Goldmann, Folco Lulli, and Billie Burke. After him are Alexander Gode, Café Filho, Friedrich Pollock, Agustín Lara, Iuliu Hossu, and Maria Yudina.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ranks 362 out of 1,365Before him are Andrey Sheptytsky (1865), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), Israel Zolli (1881), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Anna Sten (1908), and Igor Sergeyev (1938). After him are Elisabeth Bergner (1897), Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908), Oleh Protasov (1964), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), and Yevhen Petrushevych (1863).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ranks 14Before him are Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), Igor Shafarevich (1923), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880). After him are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), and Mark Krein (1907).