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G. H. Hardy

1877 - 1947

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Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics. G. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. H. Hardy has received more than 2,493,531 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). G. H. Hardy is the 92nd most popular mathematician (up from 108th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 526th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Mathematician.

G. H. Hardy is most famous for his work in pure mathematics. He was one of the few mathematicians to have ever reached the rank of a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first mathematician to be knighted.

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Over the past year G. H. Hardy has had the most page views in the with 704,837 views, followed by English (223,136), and Russian (24,927). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (313.86%), Spanish (292.70%), and Bengali (131.62%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, G. H. Hardy ranks 92 out of 1,004. Before him are Alexander Friedmann, Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Thābit ibn Qurra, and Pierre Louis Maupertuis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, G. H. Hardy ranks 11. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, and Heinrich Otto Wieland. After him are Louis Renault, Raoul Dufy, Kees van Dongen, Said Nursî, Gabriele Münter, and Kārlis Ulmanis. Among people deceased in 1947, G. H. Hardy ranks 22. Before him are Ettore Bugatti, Halford Mackinder, Anton Denikin, Aung San, Ernst Lubitsch, and Han van Meegeren. After him are Karl Mannheim, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pierre Bonnard, Nicholas Roerich, Black Dahlia, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. H. Hardy ranks 378 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Calico Jack (1682), Martin Ryle (1918), Harold Pinter (1930), Hugh Grant (1960), and George Mallory (1886). After him are Kenneth Branagh (1960), Mordred (null), Christian de Duve (1917), Pelagius (360), Henry Morgan (1635), and William Crookes (1832).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, G. H. Hardy ranks 6. Before him are Bertrand Russell (1872), John Napier (1550), Ada Lovelace (1815), George Boole (1815), and Alfred North Whitehead (1861). After him are Isaac Barrow (1631), Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Couch Adams (1819).

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