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William Kahan

1933 - Today

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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Kahan is the 691st most popular mathematician (up from 729th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from Canada (up from 342nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Kahan ranks 691 out of 1,004. Before him are Ken Ribet, Friedrich Waismann, Roy Kerr, Jerzy Różycki, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, and Helena Rasiowa. After him are Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Charles Dupin, Avi Wigderson, Joseph Keller, Paul Bernays, and Elias M. Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, William Kahan ranks 304. Before him are Meena Kumari, Sergio Gonella, Severino Poletto, Theodore Roszak, Georgi Atanasov, and Ayako Wakao. After him are József Bencsics, Giuliano Sarti, Lucian Pintilie, Peter Post, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, and Tamás Vásáry.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Kahan ranks 330 out of 1,622. Before him are David Shore (1959), John Vernon (1932), Carlyle S. Beals (1899), Robert Joy (1951), Kate Nelligan (1950), and Robert Borden (1854). After him are Paul Bley (1932), Jacques Plante (1929), Alexander Knox (1907), Natasha Henstridge (1974), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), and Gérald Lacroix (1957).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, William Kahan ranks 6. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Robert Langlands (1936), and Edward Routh (1831). After him are Albert W. Tucker (1905), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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