In Memoriam
Researchers in this directory who are no longer with us
The Top 100 and the regional pages list living researchers only, so the directory stays accurate for anyone using it to make contact. This page remembers the 0 key figures from the ranked pool who have passed away (the most highly ranked of the deceased), plus a separate listing of foundational figures whose careers predate the digital publication record our pipeline reads from.
Foundational figures
The pipeline behind this site ranks researchers whose work appears on arXiv or in OpenAlex, which mostly means careers active from the mid-1990s onward. The names below predate that coverage. Their work is the bedrock on which modern research is built. They are listed by last name; each contribution is noted at the bottom of the page.
| Name | Institution | Country | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Baker | University of Cambridge | GB | 1939-2018 |
| Harold Davenport | University of Cambridge | GB | 1907-1969 |
| Lucien Szpiro | City University of New York | US | 1941-2020 |
Foundational figures: contributions
- Alan Baker (1939-2018): Fields Medalist; the theory of linear forms in logarithms gives effective bounds central to Diophantine problems related to the abc conjecture
- Harold Davenport (1907-1969): Multiplicative Number Theory and major advances in the Hardy-Littlewood circle method for additive prime problems
- Lucien Szpiro (1941-2020): The Szpiro conjecture on elliptic curve conductors and discriminants is essentially equivalent to the abc conjecture; a central figure in arithmetic geometry
Key figures from ranked pool
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