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S. R. Ranganathan

1892 - 1972

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Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan ( 09 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was an Indian librarian and mathematician. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental thinking in the field. His birthday is observed every year as National Librarian Day in India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. S. R. Ranganathan is the 285th most popular mathematician (down from 228th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from India (down from 180th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 285 out of 1,004. Before him are Édouard Roche, Vitello, George Atwood, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Jacopo Riccati, and Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. After him are Gemma Frisius, Seki Takakazu, Al-Karaji, Atle Selberg, John G. Thompson, and Edmund Landau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 79. Before him are Marcel Dassault, Günther Blumentritt, César Vallejo, Andrés Nin Pérez, J. B. S. Haldane, and Paul Abraham. After him are Josyf Slipyj, Stanisław Sosabowski, Walther Nehring, Thomas Mitchell, Arnold Hauser, and Guo Moruo. Among people deceased in 1972, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 59. Before him are Harlow Shapley, Martiros Saryan, Ettore Bastico, Mahalia Jackson, Hans Scharoun, and Karl Silberbauer. After him are Clara Campoamor, Hugo Steinhaus, Jules Romains, Henry de Montherlant, Aspasia Manos, and Frans Masereel.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 238 out of 1,861. Before him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Ajay Banga (1959), Jayadeva (1170), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905), and B. K. S. Iyengar (1918). After him are Amrit Kaur (1889), Namdev (1270), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Hema Malini (1948), Amjad Khan (1940), and Feroz Khan (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, S. R. Ranganathan ranks 6. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), Augustus De Morgan (1806), and Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350). After him are Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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