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Lev Pontryagin

1908 - 1988

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Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Pontryagin is the 338th most popular mathematician (down from 276th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from Russia (down from 630th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lev Pontryagin ranks 338 out of 1,004. Before him are Eugenio Beltrami, Alfred Korzybski, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Gotthold Eisenstein, Julius Plücker, and Joseph Diez Gergonne. After him are Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, and Felix Bernstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lev Pontryagin ranks 98. Before him are Carlos Arias Navarro, Libertad Lamarque, Cus D'Amato, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Giovannino Guareschi, and Leroy Anderson. After him are Virginia Cherrill, Arturo Frondizi, Alejandro Scopelli, Fritz Witt, Teizo Takeuchi, and Carlo Abarth. Among people deceased in 1988, Lev Pontryagin ranks 64. Before him are Viktors Arājs, Renato Salvatori, Raymond Dart, Bluma Zeigarnik, Sergey Gorshkov, and Takeo Miki. After him are George Uhlenbeck, Vladimír Menšík, Anna Mahler, Andrija Artuković, Trường Chinh, and Giacinto Scelsi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Pontryagin ranks 658 out of 3,761. Before him are Yaroslav of Tver (1230), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), and Alexander Bortnikov (1951). After him are Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Viktor Medvedchuk (1954), Zinaida Gippius (1869), Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), and Maria Sharapova (1987).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Lev Pontryagin ranks 19. Before him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Yakov Sinai (1935), Sergei Novikov (1938), Grigory Margulis (1946), and Pavel Alexandrov (1896). After him are Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Nina Bari (1901), and Alfred Clebsch (1833).

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