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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 332,973 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). I. J. Good is the 841st most popular mathematician (down from 743rd in 2019), the 4,826th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,058th in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, I. J. Good ranks 841 out of 823. Before him are Martin Davis, Poul Heegaard, Caucher Birkar, Demetrios Christodoulou, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. After him are Ken Ribet, George Salmon, Philip Hall, Charles Hutton, Michael Aschbacher, and Andrei Okounkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, I. J. Good ranks 264. Before him are Richard Hofstadter, Betty Taylor, Spark Matsunaga, Virginia Gregg, Giuseppe Tosi, and Roderick Chisholm. After him are Martha Raye, Kåre Holt, Rupert Davies, Walker Percy, Nancye Wynne Bolton, and Beverly Cleary. Among people deceased in 2009, I. J. Good ranks 320. Before him are Tapan Sinha, Kristina Brenk, Héctor Rossetto, Jang Ja-yeon, Paul Burke, and Gennadiy Shatkov. After him are Virginia Davis, Kálmán Markovits, Raúl Magaña, Rashidi Kawawa, Mohamed M. Atalla, and Sidney Wood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 4,826 out of 7,765. Before him are Terence Davies (1945), William Morgan (1547), Victoria Tennant (1950), Laura Fraser (1976), Peter Cook (1937), and Ewan MacColl (1915). After him are Alastair Reynolds (1966), Aimee Lou Wood (1995), Nick Griffin (1959), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), Montagu Love (1877), and Paul McGuigan (1963).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 95. Before him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), Horace Lamb (1849), Richard K. Guy (1916), Frank Morley (1860), and Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899). After him are Philip Hall (1904), Charles Hutton (1737), Simon Singh (1964), Neil Sloane (1939), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), and Timothy Gowers (1963).

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