MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Gelfond

1906 - 1968

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Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (Russian: Алекса́ндр О́сипович Ге́льфонд; 24 October 1906 – 7 November 1968) was a Soviet mathematician. Gelfond's theorem, also known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gelfond is the 621st most popular mathematician (up from 631st in 2019), the 1,340th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,490th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexander Gelfond ranks 621 out of 1,004Before him are Michael Freedman, Kushyar Gilani, Martin Ohm, Eduard Čech, Ilia Vekua, and Francesco Faà di Bruno. After him are Heinrich Martin Weber, René de Saussure, Alfred Pringsheim, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Serge Lang, and Willem 's Gravesande.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alexander Gelfond ranks 216Before him are Dmitry Likhachov, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Charles Malik, Karl Sesta, František Svoboda, and Laurens van der Post. After him are Juan Modesto, Bernhard Britz, V. J. Sukselainen, A. J. P. Taylor, Friz Freleng, and René David. Among people deceased in 1968, Alexander Gelfond ranks 132Before him are J. L. B. Smith, Rose Wilder Lane, Segismundo Casado, Ibrahim Moustafa, Mercedes de Acosta, and Panagiotis Pavlidis. After him are Joseph Keilberth, Dorothy Garrod, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Leo Huberman, Harold D. Babcock, and Jón Leifs.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Gelfond ranks 1,340 out of 3,761Before him are Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Pavel Chistyakov (1832), Alexander Ovechkin (1985), Khariton Laptev (1700), and Anton Delvig (1798). After him are Vladimir Potanin (1961), Simon Vratsian (1882), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Daniil Granin (1919), Nikolay Beketov (1827), and Albert Shesternyov (1941).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Alexander Gelfond ranks 39Before him are Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Boris Delaunay (1890), Efim Zelmanov (1955), and Jürgen Moser (1928). After him are Dmitri Egorov (1869), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), and Carl Neumann (1832).