MATHEMATICIAN

Edward Routh

1831 - 1907

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Edward John Routh (; 20 January 1831 – 7 June 1907) was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Routh has received more than 132,493 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edward Routh is the 592nd most popular mathematician (up from 645th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Canada (up from 309th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edward Routh ranks 592 out of 1,004. Before him are Shigefumi Mori, Dmitri Egorov, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Harold Jeffreys, Boris Delaunay, and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. After him are Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, David Ruelle, Haskell Curry, Arend Heyting, and Wilhelm Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Edward Routh ranks 77. Before him are Fatima Sheikh, Reinhold Begas, Gustav Radde, Johann von Herbeck, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, and Alexandre Falguière. After him are Jovan Ristić, Heinrich von Stephan, Ludvig Norman, Frederick Townsend Ward, Wilhelm His Sr., and Salomon Jadassohn. Among people deceased in 1907, Edward Routh ranks 72. Before him are Alfred Newton, William Howard Russell, Luis Sáenz Peña, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and Otto Kuntze. After him are René Pottier, Charles Dancla, Désirée Artôt, Ida Saxton McKinley, Jakob Hurt, and Ignaz Brüll.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Edward Routh ranks 258 out of 1,622. Before him are Lawrence Stroll (1959), Northrop Frye (1912), Barry Pepper (1970), Alexandra Stewart (1939), Mark Robson (1913), and Walter Pidgeon (1897). After him are Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879), Alan Thicke (1947), Anne Hébert (1916), Guy Laliberté (1959), Mario Lemieux (1965), and Louis St. Laurent (1882).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Edward Routh ranks 5. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), Albert W. Tucker (1905), and Louis Nirenberg (1925). After him are Robert Langlands (1936), William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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