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Yasumasa Kanada

1948 - 2020

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Yasumasa Kanada (金田 康正, Kanada Yasumasa; 1949 – 11 February 2020) was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over three decades for calculating digits of π. He set the record 11 of the past 21 times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yasumasa Kanada is the 861st most popular mathematician (down from 810th in 2024), the 1,584th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,376th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 861 out of 1,004. Before him are Solomon Marcus, Gustav de Vries, Kātyāyana, Yury Osipov, Henri Padé, and Richard Taylor. After him are Richard K. Guy, Émile Léonard Mathieu, I. J. Good, Cédric Villani, Raoul Bott, and Robert Daniel Carmichael.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 583. Before him are Garrick Ohlsson, Ibrahim Kuni, Colleen Atwood, Fred Hampton, Josef Ackermann, and Nick Mancuso. After him are Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Jürgen Marcus, Ben Burtt, Jorge Carrascosa, T. C. Boyle, and Guido Knopp. Among people deceased in 2020, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 605. Before him are Ignacio Trelles, Vidin Apostolov, Tomás Herrera Martínez, John Davies, Richard Herd, and Papa Bouba Diop. After him are Irina Kirichenko, Lajos Szűcs, Keiji Fujiwara, Richard K. Guy, Toke Talagi, and Mario Chaldú.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 1,584 out of 6,245. Before him are Marie Kondo (1984), Takashi Ishimoto (1935), Sola Aoi (1983), Yuki Tazawa (1979), Miho Nakayama (1970), and Toshio Hosokawa (1955). After him are Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), Kei Okami (1859), Masanao Sasaki (1962), Michio Mado (1909), Ryoichi Kawakatsu (1958), and Yuriko Mizuma (1970).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Yasumasa Kanada ranks 10. Before him are Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), and Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917). After him are Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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