MATHEMATICIAN

George Salmon

1819 - 1904

Photo of George Salmon

Icon of person George Salmon

George Salmon (25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904) was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, Salmon devoted the last forty years of his life to theology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Salmon has received more than 111,440 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Salmon is the 870th most popular mathematician (down from 840th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 308th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George Salmon ranks 870 out of 1,004. Before him are William Shanks, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Francesco Severi, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Thomas Heath, and Solomon Marcus. After him are Mark Kac, Salomon Bochner, Anatoly Karatsuba, Henryk Iwaniec, James Arthur, and Volker Strassen.

Most Popular Mathematicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, George Salmon ranks 96. Before him are William Muir, Joseph Bazalgette, Yuri Samarin, Yakov Polonsky, Monier Monier-Williams, and Alexander Melville Bell. After him are William Rosecrans, Narcyza Żmichowska, Henry Tate, Samuel Brannan, and John W. Geary. Among people deceased in 1904, George Salmon ranks 88. Before him are Frederick Sandys, Otto von Böhtlingk, Isaac Roberts, Eduard von Martens, Andrei Ryabushkin, and Richard Knill Freeman. After him are John Brown Gordon, Frances Power Cobbe, Mark Hanna, Charles Foster, and John Bell Hatcher.

Others Born in 1819

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1904

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Salmon ranks 279 out of 549. Before him are Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), William Henry Harvey (1811), Brian Downey (1951), Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), William Desmond Taylor (1872), and John O'Shea (1981). After him are Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Colum McCann (1965), John A. Costello (1891), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), Peter Sutherland (1946), and Tony Dunne (1941).

Others born in Ireland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ireland

Among mathematicians born in Ireland, George Salmon ranks 5. Before him are Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), and Alicia Boole Stott (1860). After him are Henry John Stephen Smith (1826).

Irish born Mathematicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous