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Alain Connes

1947 - Today

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Alain Connes (French: [alɛ̃ kɔn]; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He was a professor at the Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Connes is the 317th most popular mathematician (up from 327th in 2019), the 2,043rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,319th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alain Connes ranks 317 out of 1,004. Before him are Isaac Beeckman, Sergei Novikov, Farkas Bolyai, Abraham Wald, Grigory Margulis, and Guo Shoujing. After him are Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Pietro Cataldi, Willem de Sitter, Edward Kasner, Lennart Carleson, and Kunihiko Kodaira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alain Connes ranks 177. Before him are Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Ry Cooder, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Rakhee Gulzar, Thomas Christopher Collins, and Anne Archer. After him are Robert M. Parker Jr., David Byron, Helena Vondráčková, Mesut Yılmaz, Kerry Melville, and Edward Yang.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Connes ranks 2,043 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Gouraud (1867), Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), François Girardon (1628), and François Coppée (1842). After him are Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Claude Garamond (1499), Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), Sacha Distel (1933), Francis Jammes (1868), and Robert Pires (1973).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Alain Connes ranks 57. Before him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Paul Lévy (1886), Édouard Roche (1820), Oronce Finé (1494), and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923). After him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Antoine Gombaud (1607), and Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581).

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