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MATHEMATICIAN

George Peacock

1791 - 1858

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George Peacock FRS (9 April 1791 – 8 November 1858) was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Peacock has received more than 75,756 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Peacock is the 791st most popular mathematician (down from 736th in 2019), the 4,303rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,017th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George Peacock ranks 791 out of 823Before him are Hans Rademacher, Oskar Perron, Henri Padé, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Luis Caffarelli, and Erna Schneider Hoover. After him are Jacob Bronowski, James Lighthill, Nicolas Fuss, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Roger Apéry, and Georgy Adelson-Velsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, George Peacock ranks 42Before him are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Odilon Barrot, William Elford Leach, József Katona, Henryk Rzewuski, and José Ignacio Pavón. After him are Juan Francisco Giró, John Nelson, Peter Cooper, and Allan Cunningham. Among people deceased in 1858, George Peacock ranks 50Before him are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Jane Marcet, José de la Riva Agüero, José Gregorio Monagas, Vicente Ramón Roca, and József Bajza. After him are Benjamin Franklin Butler and Thomas Hart Benton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Peacock ranks 4,303 out of 7,765Before him are Gina McKee (1964), Anthony Powell (1905), Sam Tingle (1921), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), and Jimmy Armfield (1935). After him are Harry Mallin (1892), Ernest Mangnall (1866), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), A. V. Dicey (1835), R. M. Ballantyne (1825), and Polly Walker (1966).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, George Peacock ranks 90Before him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848). After him are Horace Lamb (1849), Richard K. Guy (1916), Frank Morley (1860), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), I. J. Good (1916), and Philip Hall (1904).