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Isadore Singer

1924 - 2021

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Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Singer is noted for his work with Michael Atiyah, proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962, which paved the way for new interactions between pure mathematics and theoretical physics. In early 1980s, while a professor at Berkeley, Singer co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) with Shiing-Shen Chern and Calvin Moore. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isadore Singer is the 563rd most popular mathematician (down from 467th in 2019), the 4,842nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,768th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Isadore Singer ranks 563 out of 1,004. Before him are Athir al-Din al-Abhari, Samuel Eilenberg, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Pál Turán, D. R. Kaprekar, and Solomon Lefschetz. After him are Louis J. Mordell, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Dénes Kőnig, Mikio Sato, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, and Benjamin Peirce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Isadore Singer ranks 228. Before him are Charles Coste, Werner Kohlmeyer, Yuri Orlov, Aman Andom, Viktor Astafyev, and Ken Armstrong. After him are Eduardo Paolozzi, Juan Carlos González, Max Roach, Jean-François Revel, Budge Patty, and John Hansen. Among people deceased in 2021, Isadore Singer ranks 260. Before him are Judith Reisman, Freimut Börngen, Hilton Valentine, Clive Sinclair, Branko Mamula, and Justo Tejada. After him are Alberto Grimaldi, Yury Vlasov, Ivan Patzaichin, Nick Kamen, Budge Patty, and Anatoliy Zlenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 4,842 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Rush (1745), Lana Rhoades (1996), David Lewis (1941), Blackie Lawless (1956), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), and Wanda Jackson (1937). After him are Gary Burton (1943), Beverly Aadland (1942), Ellie Kemper (1980), James McDivitt (1929), R. J. Palacio (1963), and Sarah Childress Polk (1803).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Isadore Singer ranks 39. Before him are Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Julia Robinson (1919), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Andrew M. Gleason (1921), and Ronald Graham (1935). After him are Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Michael Freedman (1951), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), and Haskell Curry (1900).

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