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Georgy Adelson-Velsky

1922 - 2014

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Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский; name is sometimes transliterated as Georgii Adelson-Velskii) (8 January 1922 – 26 April 2014) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Born in Samara, Adelson-Velsky was originally educated as a pure mathematician. His first paper, with his fellow student and eventual long-term collaborator Alexander Kronrod in 1945, won a prize from the Moscow Mathematical Society. He and Kronrod were the last students of Nikolai Luzin, and he earned his doctorate in 1949 under the supervision of Israel Gelfand. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Adelson-Velsky is the 833rd most popular mathematician (up from 840th in 2019), the 2,068th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,127th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 833 out of 1,004. Before him are Hans Rademacher, Ennio de Giorgi, Hellmuth Kneser, Friedrich Engel, Corrado Segre, and George Szekeres. After him are Marcel Riesz, Oskar Perron, Harish-Chandra, Marina Ratner, Erich Kähler, and Francesco Severi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 350. Before him are Jean Malaurie, Jacques Pollet, André Buffière, Musa Gareyev, Héctor Rossetto, and Carl Amery. After him are Hannelore Schroth, Olga Guillot, Guy Madison, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Marcel Mouloudji, and Rudolf Haag. Among people deceased in 2014, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 409. Before him are André Buffière, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Keiko Awaji, Sirkka Polkunen, Buddy DeFranco, and François Deguelt. After him are A. N. R. Robinson, Carla Laemmle, Bruno Zumino, Jan Werner, Kate O'Mara, and Don Keefer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 2,068 out of 3,761. Before him are Vassili Poyarkov (null), Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861), Viktor Anichkin (1941), Pentti Saarikoski (1937), Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860), and Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936). After him are Sergei Zubatov (1864), Dmitri Vrubel (1960), Mikhail Krug (1962), Aleksei Mamykin (1936), Anton Yelchin (1989), and Oleg Romantsev (1954).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Georgy Adelson-Velsky ranks 58. Before him are Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Ivan Petrovsky (1901), Mikhail Suslin (1894), and Anatoly Karatsuba (1937). After him are Marina Ratner (1938), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Yury Osipov (1936), and Anatoly Maltsev (1909).

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