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Yutaka Taniyama

1927 - 1958

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Yutaka Taniyama (谷山 豊, Taniyama Yutaka; 12 November 1927 – 17 November 1958) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yutaka Taniyama is the 453rd most popular mathematician (up from 463rd in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 862nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 453 out of 1,004. Before him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Hermann Bondi, Goro Shimura, Yves Meyer, Gerd Faltings, and Erhard Schmidt. After him are Sam Loyd, William Jones, Enrico Betti, Mary Cartwright, Vladimir Smirnov, and Johann Friedrich Pfaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 166. Before him are Martha Chase, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Marcel Ophüls, Joan Segarra, Martin Walser, and Gae Aulenti. After him are Giuseppe Moioli, Lee Konitz, Yitzhak Hofi, Allan Kaprow, Franco Maria Malfatti, and Josef Posipal. Among people deceased in 1958, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 74. Before him are Edward Weston, Claire Lee Chennault, Florian Znaniecki, Slobodan Jovanović, Frédéric François-Marsal, and Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria. After him are Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Goro Yamada, Isidora Sekulić, Maurice Germot, Roger Byrne, and Salama Moussa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 833 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Nishino (1955), Ryōkan (1758), Takako Shimazu (1939), Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Prince Hisaaki (1276), and Gotō Shinpei (1857). After him are Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Keisai Eisen (1790), Ryoji Yamanaka (1983), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Naoto Tajima (1912), and Shigeo Shingo (1909).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Yutaka Taniyama ranks 6. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), and Goro Shimura (1930). After him are Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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