MATHEMATICIAN

Igor Shafarevich

1923 - 2017

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Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (Russian: И́горь Ростисла́вович Шафаре́вич; 3 June 1923 – 19 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised socialism and other books which were described as anti-semitic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Shafarevich is the 388th most popular mathematician (down from 320th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 297th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Igor Shafarevich ranks 388 out of 1,004. Before him are Marshall Harvey Stone, Louis Nirenberg, Thomas Simpson, Ivan Vinogradov, Ostilio Ricci, and Lothar Collatz. After him are Richard Courant, Rudolf Lipschitz, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Carl Ludwig Siegel, William George Horner, and Helmut Hasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Igor Shafarevich ranks 133. Before him are Tito Puente, Judith Kerr, Faas Wilkes, Ann Miller, Peter Vaughan, and Mario Brega. After him are Joseph Weizenbaum, Ziba Ganiyeva, Uri Avnery, Erroll Garner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, and Bob Dole. Among people deceased in 2017, Igor Shafarevich ranks 139. Before him are Kate Millett, Jerry Fodor, Raymond Smullyan, Brian Aldiss, Félix Mourinho, and Omar Abdel-Rahman. After him are Baldwin Lonsdale, Albert Zafy, Robert Miles, Todor Veselinović, Mark Fisher, and Manuel Sanchís Martínez.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Shafarevich ranks 326 out of 1,365. Before him are Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Nikolay Shmatko (1943), Salo Flohr (1908), Alexius Meinong (1853), and Yaakov Dori (1899). After him are Mark Taimanov (1926), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Tamara Smirnova (1935), Maya Deren (1917), and Larisa Shepitko (1938).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Igor Shafarevich ranks 12. Before him are Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), and Vladimir Drinfeld (1954). After him are Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939).

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