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Klaus Roth

1925 - 2015

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Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Roth moved to England as a child in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and University College London, finishing his doctorate in 1950. He taught at University College London until 1966, when he took a chair at Imperial College London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Roth is the 461st most popular mathematician (down from 369th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from Poland (down from 532nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Klaus Roth ranks 461 out of 1,004. Before him are William Jones, Enrico Betti, Mary Cartwright, Vladimir Smirnov, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Adriaan van Roomen. After him are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Luigi Cremona, Nikolai Luzin, Campanus of Novara, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Abraham Fraenkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Klaus Roth ranks 187. Before him are Rosario Castellanos, Mai Zetterling, Željko Čajkovski, Scott Carpenter, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, and Mario Merz. After him are Mike Connors, José Napoleón Duarte, Ernst Stojaspal, Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, and Kalle Svensson. Among people deceased in 2015, Klaus Roth ranks 146. Before him are Wayne Dyer, Vicente Aranda, Carlo Furno, Harald Nielsen, Sergio Sollima, and Władysław Bartoszewski. After him are Robert Conquest, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Egon Bahr, Dean Jones, Ernst Fuchs, and Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 590 out of 1,694. Before him are Nahum Sokolow (1859), Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania (1318), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), and Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490). After him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Otto Freundlich (1878), Louis Marcoussis (1878), Jan Tomaszewski (1948), Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1729), and Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Klaus Roth ranks 18. Before him are Hermann Grassmann (1809), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Vitello (1230), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Alfred Korzybski (1879), and Richard Courant (1888). After him are Michael O. Rabin (1931), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Abraham Robinson (1918), Emil Leon Post (1897), Theodor Kaluza (1885), and Samuel Eilenberg (1913).

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