MATHEMATICIAN

Charles Howard Hinton

1853 - 1907

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Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 30 April 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Howard Hinton has received more than 204,317 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Howard Hinton is the 787th most popular mathematician (down from 703rd in 2019), the 3,959th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,572nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Charles Howard Hinton ranks 787 out of 1,004Before him are Hua Luogeng, Cesare Burali-Forti, Sergei Adian, Edward O. Thorp, Joseph Keller, and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande. After him are Cédric Villani, Horace Lamb, Erich Hecke, Christine Darden, Morris Kline, and Stefan Mazurkiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Charles Howard Hinton ranks 96Before him are Emilio Aceval, Gertrud Adelborg, David Belasco, André Messager, Lucy Parsons, and Maria Yermolova. After him are Gaston Bonnier, Henning von Holtzendorff, Leander Starr Jameson, Philander C. Knox, John Henry Twachtman, and Alva Belmont. Among people deceased in 1907, Charles Howard Hinton ranks 87Before him are Edmonia Lewis, Jules de Trooz, Lena Rice, Dimitar Petkov, Muriel Robb, and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand. After him are Heinrich Kreutz, Macario Sakay, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles W. Alcock, Christen Dalsgaard, and Guillermo Tell Villegas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Howard Hinton ranks 3,959 out of 8,785Before him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Matthew Goode (1978), Liam Howlett (1971), Edward Carpenter (1844), Henry Liddell (1811), and Michael Giles (1942). After him are John André (1750), Meave Leakey (1942), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Isaac Roberts (1829), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), and Horace Lamb (1849).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Howard Hinton ranks 80Before him are David Cox (1924), William Hopkins (1793), Charles Hutton (1737), Douglas Hartree (1897), Benjamin Robins (1707), and William Henry Young (1863). After him are Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Everest Boole (1832), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), and Peter Tait (1831).