MATHEMATICIAN

Egon Pearson

1895 - 1980

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Egon Sharpe Pearson (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British statistician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Egon Pearson has received more than 133,523 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Egon Pearson is the 531st most popular mathematician (down from 515th in 2019), the 2,452nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,482nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Egon Pearson ranks 531 out of 1,004. Before him are Eugenio Calabi, Dai Zhen, Thomas Wright, Nina Bari, Max Noether, and Heinrich Martin Weber. After him are Ismaël Bullialdus, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Jakob Hermann, Sydney Chapman, and Willem 's Gravesande.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Egon Pearson ranks 156. Before him are Rudolph Minkowski, Julijans Vaivods, Hari Singh, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Corrado Alvaro, and Itō Noe. After him are Neco, Mario Camerini, Immanuel Velikovsky, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Jerzy Kuryłowicz. Among people deceased in 1980, Egon Pearson ranks 156. Before him are Miliza Korjus, Sonja Wigert, Ángel Sanz Briz, Philip Guston, Gerhard von Schwerin, and Alberto Demicheli. After him are André Parrot, Arthur Melvin Okun, Farrokhroo Parsa, Jean Robic, Yakov Malik, and Mantovani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Egon Pearson ranks 2,452 out of 8,785. Before him are J. B. Priestley (1894), Ray Clemence (1948), Auguste Couder (1789), John Osborne (1929), John Evelyn (1620), and Richard Robarts (1944). After him are Midge Ure (1953), Ernest Marsden (1889), Kiki Dee (1947), John Callen (1946), Galyani Vadhana (1923), and Martin Lings (1909).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Egon Pearson ranks 51. Before him are W. V. D. Hodge (1903), David Mumford (1937), Joseph Raphson (1648), John Playfair (1748), John Hadley (1682), and Thomas Wright (1711). After him are Sydney Chapman (1888), Paul Bernays (1888), Ernest William Brown (1866), Harold Jeffreys (1891), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), and G. I. Taylor (1886).

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