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Caucher Birkar

1978 - Today

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Caucher Birkar (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Kurdish: فەرەیدوون درەخشانی، Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Caucher Birkar is the 925th most popular mathematician (down from 894th in 2024), the 425th most popular biography from Iran (up from 428th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Caucher Birkar ranks 925 out of 1,004. Before him are Martin David Kruskal, William Spottiswoode, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, William Gemmell Cochran, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, and Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann. After him are Ivar Otto Bendixson, Fan Chung, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Garfield, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, and Barry Mazur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Caucher Birkar ranks 239. Before him are Kim Sa-rang, Luis von Ahn, Wang Liqin, Alena Šeredová, Geoffrey Arend, and Louise Brown. After him are Vagner da Silva Sarti, Bob Bryan, Joo Sang-wook, Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed, Alberto Ammann, and Tomomi Fujimura.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Caucher Birkar ranks 425 out of 631. Before him are Yusuf Adil Shah (1459), Alireza Faghani (1978), Leila Hatami (1972), Eshaq Jahangiri (1958), Andy (1958), and Manouchehr Mottaki (1953). After him are Sardar Azmoun (1995), Harold Nicolson (1886), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960), Fatemeh Rahbar (1964), and Ahmad NikTalab (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Caucher Birkar ranks 17. Before him are Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Al-Birjandi (null), Kushyar Gilani (971), and Abu Said Gorgani (850).

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