MATHEMATICIAN

Edward Waring

1736 - 1798

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Edward Waring (c. 1736 – 15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, holding the chair until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Waring has received more than 78,737 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Edward Waring is the 280th most popular mathematician (up from 336th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,698th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edward Waring ranks 280 out of 1,004. Before him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Paul Cohen, Lev Pontryagin, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, and George Atwood. After him are Lloyd Shapley, Abraham bar Hiyya, John Edensor Littlewood, Kunihiko Kodaira, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Marino Ghetaldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Edward Waring ranks 13. Before him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. After him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Anton Graff, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Patrick Henry, and Daniel Morgan. Among people deceased in 1798, Edward Waring ranks 12. Before him are Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tarrare, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Johann Reinhold Forster. After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Yuan Mei, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Antoine de Chézy, and Christian Cannabich.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Waring ranks 1,347 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Tew (1649), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), Roger Fenton (1819), Edmund Kean (1787), and George Atwood (1745). After him are William Prout (1785), Peter Burke (1937), Gideon Mantell (1790), Ted Hughes (1930), Lennox Lewis (1965), and Jeremy Corbyn (1949).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Waring ranks 28. Before him are Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), Thomas Simpson (1710), John Horton Conway (1937), John Wilkins (1614), and George Atwood (1745). After him are John Edensor Littlewood (1885), William George Horner (1786), Alan Baker (1939), John Graunt (1620), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), and Peter Barlow (1776).

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