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Paul Cohen

1934 - 2007

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Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician, best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Cohen is the 109th most popular mathematician (up from 275th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,193rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Cohen ranks 109 out of 1,004. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Augustus De Morgan, Anthemius of Tralles, Émile Picard, and Willebrord Snellius. After him are Alexis Clairaut, Grigori Perelman, Ctesibius, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, George Green, and Leonid Kantorovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Paul Cohen ranks 38. Before him are Pierre Richard, Ulrike Meinhof, Paco Rabanne, Kenny Baker, Jacques Anquetil, and Larisa Latynina. After him are Empress Michiko, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Alexei Leonov, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Richard Meier, and Georges Moustaki. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Cohen ranks 22. Before him are Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, Aden Adde, and Albert Ellis. After him are Theodore Maiman, Ralph Asher Alpher, Gian Carlo Menotti, István Sándorfi, Barry Nelson, and Jerry Falwell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Cohen ranks 797 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul D. Boyer (1918), David Lee (1931), James Woods (1947), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Benedict Arnold (1741), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875). After him are Alexander Calder (1898), Sixto Rodriguez (1942), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Terry Gilliam (1940), Larry Hagman (1931), and Nancy Sinatra (1940).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Paul Cohen ranks 8. Before him are Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Norbert Wiener (1894), Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Jim Simons (1938), and Claude Shannon (1916). After him are John Tate (1925), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), and Richard S. Hamilton (1943).

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