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Hillel Furstenberg

1935 - Today

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Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (Hebrew: הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג; born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods to other areas of mathematics, including number theory and Lie groups. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hillel Furstenberg is the 304th most popular mathematician (up from 508th in 2019), the 1,784th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,406th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 304 out of 1,004. Before him are Oronce Finé, Simon Newcomb, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Yakov Sinai, Robert Axelrod, and Michael Stifel. After him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, John Horton Conway, Stephen Smale, Marino Ghetaldi, John Wilkins, and Enrico Bombieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 97. Before him are Charles Duke, Paula Rego, Mary Berry, Ján Popluhár, John G. Avildsen, and Yakov Sinai. After him are Masahito, Prince Hitachi, Robert Silverberg, Thomas Keneally, Luis del Sol, André Brink, and Valeri Kubasov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 1,784 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Adam (1877), Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Michael Stifel (1487), Peter Thiel (1967), and Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562). After him are Charles the Child (847), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), Nicolaus von Below (1907), and Sebald Beham (1500).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Hillel Furstenberg ranks 34. Before him are Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), and Michael Stifel (1487). After him are Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Julius Plücker (1801), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Andreas Osiander (1498).

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