John Tate (January 29, 1955 – April 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer, and held the WBA heavyweight championship from 1979 to 1980. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and related areas in algebraic geometry.

John Tate may refer to: John Tate (mathematician) (1925–2019), American mathematician; John Torrence Tate Sr. (1889–1950), American physicist; John Percival Tate (1895–1977), Australian politician; John Tate (actor) (1915–1979), Australian actor; John Stuart Tate, Australian politician; John Tate (boxer) (1955–1998), World Heavyweight ...

John Tate (born March 13, 1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—died October 16, 2019, Lexington, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician awarded the 2010 Abel Prize “for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.”

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Feb 5, 2024 · On October 20, 1979, in front of a nearly all-white crowd of over 80,000 in segregated Pretoria, South Africa, a 24-year-old Black man from Knoxville named John Tate found himself in a boxing...

Jan 29, 2025 · Big John Tate was Knoxville's forgotten champion who held the WBA heavyweight championship from 1979 to 1980.

John Tate is the recipient of the 2009 Abel Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. This interview took place on May 25, 2010, prior to the Abel Prize celebration in Oslo, and originally appeared in the September 2010 issue of the Newsletter of …

Oct 18, 2019 · AUSTIN, Texas — John Tate, who won the world’s top prize in mathematics and taught for nearly 20 years at The University of Texas at Austin where he was Regental Professor Emeritus, has died. He was 94.

Oct 20, 2019 · John Tate, who was responsible for some of the most important developments in number theory and arithmetic geometry during the second half of the twentieth century, has passed away at the age of 94. Tate was a faculty member in the Harvard math department when I was an undergraduate there, moving on to UT Austin in 1990, then retiring from ...