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David Gregory

1659 - 1708

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David Gregory (originally spelt Gregorie) FRS (3 June 1659 – 10 October 1708) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Gregory has received more than 34,862 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. David Gregory is the 644th most popular mathematician (up from 646th in 2019), the 3,020th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,168th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, David Gregory ranks 644 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Gordan, Harold Hotelling, Georg Stiernhielm, Vera T. Sós, Claude Chevalley, and Ludwig Bieberbach. After him are Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, Kātyāyana, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Efim Zelmanov, and Fritz Noether.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, David Gregory ranks 15. Before him are Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Domenico Gabrielli, and Damaris Cudworth Masham. After him are Sophia Elisabet Brenner, and William Sherard. Among people deceased in 1708, David Gregory ranks 21. Before him are Anne Jules de Noailles, Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, Nikolai Spathari, François de Laval, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Gregory ranks 3,020 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Young (1919), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Michael Gothard (1939), Brian Blessed (1936), Brian Hart (1936), and John Hartley (1849). After him are Edmund Leach (1910), Alan Brown (1919), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), Donald Watson (1910), John Lilburne (1614), and Allan Ramsay (1713).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, David Gregory ranks 63. Before him are G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), John Pell (1611), and Robert Simson (1687). After him are Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), Ian Stewart (1945), John Cairncross (1913), and E. T. Whittaker (1873).

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