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Bill Gosper

1943 - Today

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Ralph William Gosper Jr. (born April 26, 1943), known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer. Along with Richard Greenblatt, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community, and he holds a place of pride in the Lisp community. The Gosper curve and Gosper's algorithm are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Gosper is the 964th most popular mathematician (down from 944th in 2019), the 13,408th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,906th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bill Gosper ranks 964 out of 1,004. Before her are Simon Singh, Alicia Dickenstein, Bhama Srinivasan, Éva Tardos, Stanley Skewes, and Ben Green. After her are Irving Kaplansky, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Mary Ellen Rudin, Peter Scholze, Dusa McDuff, and Leonid Levin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Bill Gosper ranks 691. Before her are Alan Rollinson, Rosemarie Frankland, Elaine Pagels, Valerie Leon, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Padma Subrahmanyam. After her are Howard Wilkinson, Wayne Allard, Dennis Edwards, Samuel T. Durrance, Michael J. McCulley, and Julie Ege.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Gosper ranks 13,412 out of 20,380. Before her are Future (1983), Ellen Sandweiss (1958), Simon Cameron (1799), Steven M. Greer (1955), Payman Maadi (1970), and Steve Kuhn (1938). After her are Dan Issel (1948), Geri Allen (1957), Fred Savage (1976), Joan Blackman (1938), Jonathan Goldstein (1964), and Bryan Burk (1968).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Bill Gosper ranks 90. Before her are Barry Mazur (1937), Carl Pomerance (1944), Ormond Stone (1847), Cleve Moler (1939), Norman Johnson (1930), and David Singmaster (1938). After her are Mary Ellen Rudin (1924), Richard Schoen (1950), Eric W. Weisstein (1969), Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917), Nathaniel Bowditch (1773), and June Huh (1983).

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