MATHEMATICIAN

I. J. Good

1916 - 2009

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Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of I. J. Good has received more than 354,772 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). I. J. Good is the 847th most popular mathematician (down from 838th in 2019), the 4,390th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,814th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 3.29

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, I. J. Good ranks 847 out of 1,004. Before him are Walther von Dyck, Marshall Harvey Stone, Thomas Henderson, Simon Donaldson, John H. Coates, and Marston Morse. After him are Dmitri Anosov, Shinichi Mochizuki, Corrado Segre, Radhanath Sikdar, Don Zagier, and Richard Garfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, I. J. Good ranks 252. Before him are Ignacio Trelles, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, Blas de Otero, Margaret Lockwood, and Guy Lapébie. After him are Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Yvon Petra, Giuseppe Tosi, Roger Apéry, Dennis Poore, and Kurt Pettersén. Among people deceased in 2009, I. J. Good ranks 298. Before him are William Alston, Yevgeny Vesnik, Lukas Foss, Igor Starygin, Said Seyam, and Teddy Mayer. After him are Jacques Sylla, Jacques Baratier, Wayne Allwine, Mohamed M. Atalla, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, and Nelson Demarco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 4,390 out of 8,785. Before him are James Hogg (1770), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Ernest Dowson (1867), Martin Litchfield West (1937), Reggie Pridmore (1886), and George Grote (1794). After him are Nathaniel Parker (1962), John Mayow (1640), Vashti Bunyan (1945), Justin Hayward (1946), Jackie Blanchflower (1933), and Bill Nicholson (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 90. Before him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Peter Tait (1831), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Thomas Henderson (1798), and Simon Donaldson (1957). After him are Richard Taylor (1962), William Shanks (1812), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Thomas Heath (1861), Philip Hall (1904), and Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899).

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