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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 197,172 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. G. I. Taylor is the 514th most popular mathematician (up from 600th in 2019), the 2,480th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,851st in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 28

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  • 4.65

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  • 3.38

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, G. I. Taylor ranks 514 out of 823Before him are Lazarus Fuchs, Samuel Eilenberg, Issai Schur, Henry Dudeney, Dénes Kőnig, and Benedetto Castelli. After him are Campanus of Novara, Martin Ohm, Egon Pearson, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, and Abraham Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, G. I. Taylor ranks 158Before him are Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Peter Freuchen, Florence Lawrence, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Roberto María Ortiz, and Jean Hersholt. After him are Ernest Burgess, Rudolf Belling, Othmar Schoeck, Austin Osman Spare, Hiratsuka Raichō, and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki. Among people deceased in 1975, G. I. Taylor ranks 115Before him are Vladimir Kuts, Annette Kellermann, W. V. D. Hodge, Louis Van Hege, Tony Brise, and Aníbal Troilo. After him are Olga Bergholz, Ezzard Charles, Manuel Seoane, Joseph Laniel, William Phillips, and Georges Carpentier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. I. Taylor ranks 2,480 out of 7,765Before him are Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), John Soane (1753), Mary McAleese (1951), Edith Durham (1863), John Mahoney (1940), and John Walker (1781). After him are Jamie Oliver (1975), Robert Chambers (1802), Simon Callow (1949), Sol Campbell (1974), Jock Stein (1922), and Fatboy Slim (1963).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, G. I. Taylor ranks 54Before him are David Mumford (1937), Harold Jeffreys (1891), John Pell (1611), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), and Henry Dudeney (1857). After him are Egon Pearson (1895), Mary Cartwright (1900), Sydney Chapman (1888), John Cairncross (1913), Ian Stewart (1945), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907).