MATHEMATICIAN

Gladys West

1930 - Today

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Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930) is an American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS). West was inducted into the United States Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gladys West has received more than 897,552 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gladys West is the 753rd most popular mathematician (down from 688th in 2019), the 6,957th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,525th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 900k

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  • 54.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gladys West ranks 753 out of 1,004. Before her are Charles Fefferman, Alexander Ostrowski, Leo Königsberger, Victor Puiseux, Anatoly Maltsev, and Spiru Haret. After her are Kenkichi Iwasawa, Giuseppe Vitali, Joseph-Alfred Serret, Solomon W. Golomb, Vladimir Levenshtein, and Johann Faulhaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gladys West ranks 411. Before her are John Romita Sr., Smail Hamdani, Alan Shugart, István Mészáros, Suat Mamat, and Terence Bayler. After her are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Ora Namir, Zdeněk Mlynář, Andrey Petrov, Ignazio Fabra, and Pat Robertson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gladys West ranks 6,957 out of 20,380. Before her are Doris Eaton Travis (1904), Jimmy Ellis (1940), Jess McMahon (1882), William Dean Howells (1837), James C. Adamson (1946), and James Best (1926). After her are Frank Schlesinger (1871), Roger B. Taney (1777), Heather Thomas (1957), Nancy Kovack (1935), Bruce Johnston (1942), and Jennifer Ehle (1969).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Gladys West ranks 48. Before her are Oswald Veblen (1880), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), and Charles Fefferman (1949). After her are Solomon W. Golomb (1932), Rudy Rucker (1946), Gilbert Strang (1934), Martin Davis (1928), Hassler Whitney (1907), and Edward O. Thorp (1932).

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