1793 - 1841
George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism in 1828. The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists such as James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and others. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Green has received more than 57,678 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. George Green is the 337th most popular mathematician (up from 357th in 2019), the 1,694th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,599th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, George Green ranks 337 out of 828. Before him are Enrico Bombieri, Karl Menger, Maurice René Fréchet, Vergilius of Salzburg, Philippe de La Hire, and Sergei Novikov. After him are Otto Hesse, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Rudolf Lipschitz, René-Louis Baire, John Milnor, and Pietro Cataldi.
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 331
1902 - 1985
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 332
1878 - 1973
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 333
700 - 784
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 334
1640 - 1718
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 335
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 336
1793 - 1841
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 337
1811 - 1874
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 338
1581 - 1638
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 339
1832 - 1903
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 340
1874 - 1932
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 341
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 342
1552 - 1626
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 343
Among people born in 1793, George Green ranks 23. Before him are Karl Lachmann, Philipp Veit, Constantine Kanaris, Princess Caroline of Denmark, Ludwig Reichenbach, and Baldomero Espartero. After him are Johann Lukas Schönlein, James Dunlop, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Aleksander Fredro, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and Pavel Pestel. Among people deceased in 1841, George Green ranks 23. Before him are Aloysius Bertrand, Tokugawa Ienari, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, Franz Xaver von Baader, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, and Bertrand Barère. After him are Peter Chanel, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Bernhard Romberg, Ignaz von Seyfried, Agustín Gamarra, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz.
1793 - 1851
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 17
1793 - 1877
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 18
1793 - 1877
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 19
1793 - 1881
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 20
1793 - 1879
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 21
1793 - 1879
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 22
1793 - 1841
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 23
1793 - 1864
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 24
1793 - 1848
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 25
1793 - 1866
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 26
1793 - 1876
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 27
1793 - 1831
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 28
1793 - 1826
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 29
1807 - 1841
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 17
1773 - 1841
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 18
1766 - 1841
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 19
1765 - 1841
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 20
1812 - 1841
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 21
1755 - 1841
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 22
1793 - 1841
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 23
1803 - 1841
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 24
1780 - 1841
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 25
1767 - 1841
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 26
1776 - 1841
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 27
1785 - 1841
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 28
1758 - 1841
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 29
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Green ranks 1,694 out of 6,924. Before him are John Wyndham (1903), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), Ian Wilmut (1944), John Flaxman (1755), James Cosmo (1947), and Robert Blake (1599). After him are Dunstan (909), Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), Karen Armstrong (1944), Phil Lynott (1949), Matthew Flinders (1774), and Hugh Hudson (1936).
1903 - 1969
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 1,688
1717 - 1797
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 1,689
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 1,690
1755 - 1826
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 1,691
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 1,692
1599 - 1657
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 1,693
1793 - 1841
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 1,694
909 - 988
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 1,695
1930 - 1958
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 1,696
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 1,697
1949 - 1986
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 1,698
1774 - 1814
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 1,699
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 1,700
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, George Green ranks 33. Before him are Robert Recorde (1512), John Graunt (1620), Alan Baker (1939), John Wilkins (1614), William George Horner (1786), and Peter Barlow (1776). After him are William Sealy Gosset (1876), Roger Cotes (1682), Thomas Wright (1711), James Stirling (1692), Edward Waring (1736), and Ernest William Brown (1866).
1512 - 1558
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 27
1620 - 1674
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 28
1939 - 2018
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 29
1614 - 1672
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 30
1786 - 1837
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 31
1776 - 1862
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 32
1793 - 1841
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 33
1876 - 1937
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 34
1682 - 1716
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 35
1711 - 1786
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 36
1692 - 1770
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 37
1736 - 1798
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 38
1866 - 1938
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 39