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John Charles Fields

1863 - 1932

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John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC (May 14, 1863 – August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Charles Fields is the 249th most popular mathematician (down from 243rd in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Canada (up from 86th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Mathematician.

John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician who was most famous for his work in the fields of algebra and number theory. He was the first president of the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was created to promote international cooperation in mathematics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Charles Fields ranks 249 out of 1,004. Before him are Xu Guangqi, Ernst Zermelo, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Vergilius of Salzburg, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, and Henri Cartan. After him are Anatoly Fomenko, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paolo Ruffini, Theodorus of Cyrene, and Constantin Carathéodory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, John Charles Fields ranks 39. Before him are Reinhard Scheer, Leopold Berchtold, Annie Jump Cannon, Felix Weingartner, William Randolph Hearst, and Hugo Münsterberg. After him are Franz von Hipper, Émile Friant, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Charles Spearman, Henry Royce, and Albert Calmette. Among people deceased in 1932, John Charles Fields ranks 31. Before him are Ferdinand Buisson, André Maginot, Pierre De Geyter, Jules Chéret, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. After him are Franz von Hipper, Émile Friant, Ottokar Czernin, Georg Kerschensteiner, Guillaume Bigourdan, and Johannes Schober.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Charles Fields ranks 77 out of 1,622. Before him are The Weeknd (1990), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Elizabeth Arden (1878), Glenn Ford (1916), Mark Robson (1913), and John Candy (1950). After him are Ryan Reynolds (1976), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Percy Williams (1908), Paul Watson (1950), David Easton (1917), and Mylène Farmer (1961).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, John Charles Fields ranks 1. After him are Simon Newcomb (1835), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Robert Langlands (1936), Edward Routh (1831), William Kahan (1933), Albert W. Tucker (1905), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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