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Serge Lang

1927 - 2005

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Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group. As an activist, Lang campaigned against the Vietnam War, and also successfully fought against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington to the National Academies of Science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Serge Lang is the 626th most popular mathematician (up from 683rd in 2019), the 3,792nd most popular biography from France (up from 4,169th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Serge Lang ranks 626 out of 1,004. Before him are Francesco Faà di Bruno, Alexander Gelfond, Heinrich Martin Weber, René de Saussure, Alfred Pringsheim, and Leonard Eugene Dickson. After him are Willem 's Gravesande, Grete Hermann, Dmitri Egorov, Jakob Hermann, Jean Frédéric Frenet, and Alfréd Haar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Serge Lang ranks 240. Before him are Rachel Roberts, Franco Donatoni, Torbjørn Falkanger, William Hickey, Claudio Brook, and Michael Gielen. After him are Pierre Granier-Deferre, Thomas S. Monson, Micheline Bernardini, Mathé Altéry, Freddie Jones, and Nguyễn Thị Bình. Among people deceased in 2005, Serge Lang ranks 173. Before him are Jesús Moncada, Charles David Keeling, Piero Cappuccilli, Jacques Dufilho, Juan José Saer, and Virginia Mayo. After him are Eugenia Charles, José Beyaert, John Fiedler, William Rehnquist, Fei Xiaotong, and Devan Nair.

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In France

Among people born in France, Serge Lang ranks 3,792 out of 6,770. Before him are Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), Gabrielle Wittkop (1920), Dominique Fernandez (1929), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), Louis Diémer (1843), and Louis de Freycinet (1779). After him are Gaston Gallimard (1881), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), Joseph Daul (1947), Julie Vlasto (1903), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), and Frédéric Beigbeder (1965).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Serge Lang ranks 92. Before him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), and René de Saussure (1868). After him are Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Louis Bachelier (1870), Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Edmond Laguerre (1834), and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768).

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