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Don Zagier

1951 - Today

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Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Don Zagier is the 913th most popular mathematician (down from 852nd in 2019), the 5,470th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,132nd in 2019) and the 103rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Don Zagier ranks 913 out of 1,004. Before him are Armand Borel, Richard Borcherds, David Blackwell, Mark Kac, Salomon Bochner, and Philip Hall. After him are Branko Grünbaum, Paul Koebe, James Arthur, Martin David Kruskal, William Spottiswoode, and Arthur Geoffrey Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Don Zagier ranks 562. Before him are Nenad Stekić, Stefan Sofiyanski, Alphonso Johnson, Steve Prefontaine, Kenny Anthony, and Annie Borckink. After him are Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Emmanuel Nadingar, Mammootty, Eric Holder, Bronisław Malinowski, and Ariel Rubinstein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Don Zagier ranks 5,473 out of 7,253. Before him are Ralf König (1960), Anaid Iplicjian (1935), Karl Del'Haye (1955), Rolf Rüssmann (1950), Georg Volkert (1945), and Wolfgang Scheidel (1943). After him are Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (1951), Frank Schätzing (1957), Lutz Dombrowski (1959), Karl Neumer (1887), Paul Koebe (1882), and Helge Schneider (1955).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Don Zagier ranks 103. Before him are Richard Rado (1906), Walther von Dyck (1856), Richard Brauer (1901), Leopold Löwenheim (1878), Ruth Moufang (1905), and Volker Strassen (1936). After him are Paul Koebe (1882), Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (1837), and Peter Scholze (1987).

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