MATHEMATICIAN

G. I. Taylor

1886 - 1975

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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, who made contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. I. Taylor has received more than 194,852 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). G. I. Taylor is the 594th most popular mathematician (down from 512th in 2019), the 2,768th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,474th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year G. I. Taylor has had the most page views in the with 30,300 views, followed by Chinese (3,839), and Russian (2,329). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (128.57%), Basque (121.84%), and Mingrelian (110.67%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, G. I. Taylor ranks 594 out of 1,004. Before him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Harold Jeffreys, Boris Delaunay, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Edward Routh, and Lipót Fejér. After him are David Ruelle, Haskell Curry, Arend Heyting, Wilhelm Jordan, Diederik Korteweg, and Louis J. Mordell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, G. I. Taylor ranks 185. Before him are Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, Lucien Gaudin, Hidetsugu Yagi, George Cœdès, and Chester Conklin. After him are Muthulakshmi Reddy, August Rei, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Rebecca Clarke, Lupu Pick, and Kid Ory. Among people deceased in 1975, G. I. Taylor ranks 137. Before him are Gaston Gallimard, Friedrich Sämisch, Manuel Seoane, Gustav von Wangenheim, Harold Osborn, and Mikhail Yegorov. After him are Tony Brise, Pierre Fresnay, Plínio Salgado, Kyusaku Ogino, Mary Ure, and Victor Marijnen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. I. Taylor ranks 2,768 out of 8,785. Before him are Andrew Latimer (1949), Nancy Mackay (1922), Nicol Williamson (1936), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), Tom Hollander (1967), and Joely Richardson (1965). After him are Joseph Aspdin (1778), Ceol of Wessex (600), Tony Brise (1952), William Hazlitt (1778), Andrew Smith (1797), and Henry of Scotland (1115).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, G. I. Taylor ranks 57. Before him are Egon Pearson (1895), Sydney Chapman (1888), Paul Bernays (1888), Ernest William Brown (1866), Harold Jeffreys (1891), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907). After him are William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), and David Gregory (1659).

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