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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 838,312 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gladys West is the 691st most popular mathematician (up from 774th in 2019), the 6,539th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,346th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gladys West ranks 691 out of 823. Before her are Federigo Enriques, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Stanisław Zaremba, Cornelius Lanczos, Eugenio Calabi, and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger. After her are Saharon Shelah, Dmitry Grave, Annie S. D. Maunder, Stanisław Mazur, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Joseph Diez Gergonne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gladys West ranks 355. Before her are Tsutomu Seki, James Coco, Richard Anuszkiewicz, John Polkinghorne, Eino Tamberg, and Owen Garriott. After her are Salvatore De Giorgi, Oleg Anofriyev, Richard Bonynge, Andrey Petrov, Yoshinori Shigematsu, and Gianfranco Parolini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gladys West ranks 6,539 out of 18,182. Before her are Anya Taylor-Joy (1996), Glenne Headly (1955), Richard Kind (1956), John O'Hara (1905), Kenny Drew (1928), and Edward Ruscha (1937). After her are Richard Bass (1929), John Hammond (1910), Brian Setzer (1959), Dane DeHaan (1986), Sabrina Carpenter (1999), and Edward Gibson (1936).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Gladys West ranks 44. Before her are Edward O. Thorp (1932), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Oswald Veblen (1880), John Tate (1925), and Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874). After her are Daniel Quillen (1940), Gilbert Strang (1934), Solomon W. Golomb (1932), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Charles Fefferman (1949), and Dennis Sullivan (1941).

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