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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

1929 - 2009

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In his last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro is the 851st most popular mathematician (down from 773rd in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,918th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 851 out of 1,004. Before him are Erich Hecke, Laurent Lafforgue, Nikolai Bugaev, Dmitri Anosov, Richard Rado, and Øystein Ore. After him are Joseph Wedderburn, Solomon Marcus, Gustav de Vries, Kātyāyana, Yury Osipov, and Henri Padé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 448. Before him are Yuri Artsutanov, William Fields, Olga Tass, Kazimierz Kutz, Ivor Allchurch, and James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife. After him are Nirmal Verma, Josef Kloimstein, Dick Tiger, Betty Carter, John Davies, and J. B. Lenoir. Among people deceased in 2009, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 303. Before him are Jackie Pretorius, Anna-Maria Müller, Nizar Rayan, Francisco Valdés, Sitara Achakzai, and Alan A'Court. After him are Guillermo Ortiz, Shōichi Nakagawa, William Alston, Jaime Belmonte, Takashi Ishimoto, and Klára Fried-Bánfalvi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 2,123 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Yuri Milner (1961), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Vitold Kreyer (1932), Pyotr Demichev (1917), and Vladimir Ilyin (1947). After him are Yelena Davydova (1961), Pavel Sadyrin (1942), Daniil Kvyat (1994), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), Roald Sagdeev (1932), and Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ranks 62. Before him are Mikhail Suslin (1894), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Marina Ratner (1938), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), and Dmitri Anosov (1936). After him are Yury Osipov (1936), Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Andrei Okounkov (1969), Yakov Eliashberg (1946), Nikolai Durov (1980), and Alexander Beilinson (1957).

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