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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 34,007 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. David Gregory is the 649th most popular mathematician (down from 533rd in 2019), the 3,176th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,513th in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, David Gregory ranks 649 out of 823. Before him are John Tate, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Guido Castelnuovo, Friedrich Waismann, Paul Gordan, and Edward Routh. After him are Mikio Sato, Eliyahu Rips, Jordanus de Nemore, Efim Zelmanov, Jean Bourgain, and Otto Toeplitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, David Gregory ranks 12. Before him are Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Domenico Gabrielli, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. After him are William Sherard and Sophia Elisabet Brenner. Among people deceased in 1708, David Gregory ranks 19. Before him are Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Anne Jules de Noailles, Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, Nikolai Spathari, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and François de Laval.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Gregory ranks 3,176 out of 7,765. Before him are Laura Mulvey (1941), John Marshall (1876), Estelle Winwood (1883), Michael Wilding (1912), Tommy Douglas (1904), and William Etty (1787). After him are Doreen Massey (1944), Henry Travers (1874), Barry Flanagan (1941), Edward Blore (1787), Gary Numan (1958), and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, David Gregory ranks 71. Before him are John Playfair (1748), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Thomas Digges (1546), James Ivory (1765), Robert Simson (1687), and Paul Bernays (1888). After him are Max Newman (1897), Lady Byron (1792), Peter Tait (1831), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), William Whiston (1667), and William Shanks (1812).

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