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Ian Stewart

1945 - Today

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Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Stewart has received more than 41,007 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ian Stewart is the 673rd most popular mathematician (down from 550th in 2019), the 3,146th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,650th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ian Stewart ranks 673 out of 1,004Before him are Johan Jensen, John Lennox, Theodosius of Bithynia, Tommaso Ceva, Sofya Yanovskaya, and Max Newman. After him are Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, John Cairncross, E. T. Whittaker, Henry Dudeney, Vladimir Drinfeld, and Alfréd Rényi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Ian Stewart ranks 377Before him are Gennady Khazanov, Michael Brandon, Tommy Svensson, Connie Willis, Jozef Moravčík, and Sharafuddin of Selangor. After him are Jean-Marc Guillou, Philippe Rousselot, Patricia Crone, Mario Livio, Katri Helena, and Marielle Goitschel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Stewart ranks 3,146 out of 8,785Before him are Martin Birch (1948), John Steel (1941), Max Newman (1897), Graham Swift (1949), Alan Baddeley (1934), and Oliver Sykes (1986). After him are Radclyffe Hall (1880), Laura Muntz Lyall (1860), Philip Reeve (1966), Cilla Black (1943), Mark Hughes (1963), and Lawrence Oates (1880).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Ian Stewart ranks 67Before him are John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), and Max Newman (1897). After him are John Cairncross (1913), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), and James Ivory (1765).