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J. H. C. Whitehead

1904 - 1960

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John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960), known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. H. C. Whitehead has received more than 92,161 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). J. H. C. Whitehead is the 859th most popular mathematician (down from 782nd in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from India (down from 675th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, J. H. C. Whitehead ranks 859 out of 823Before him are Christine Darden, Branko Grünbaum, Neil Sloane, Phillip Griffiths, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, and Claire Voisin. After him are Timothy Gowers, W. T. Tutte, James Waddell Alexander II, Javier Perez-Capdevila, William Spottiswoode, and Bill Gosper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, J. H. C. Whitehead ranks 311Before him are Blind Boy Fuller, Glenda Farrell, Jan Peerce, Silvio Pietroboni, Sally Rand, and Patrick Kavanagh. After him are Anna Neagle, Milburn Stone, Virginia Brown Faire, Keith Holyoake, Tom Conway, and Alice White. Among people deceased in 1960, J. H. C. Whitehead ranks 212Before him are Walter Catlett, Johnny Thomson, Charlie Buchan, Kathlyn Williams, Harry Pollitt, and Jimmy Bryan. After him are Rudolf Degermark, Phyllis Haver, Hope Emerson, John P. Marquand, Johnny Horton, and Charles Holden.

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In India

Among people born in India, J. H. C. Whitehead ranks 785 out of 1,493Before him are Deepa Mehta (1950), Mehmood (1932), Nanda (1939), Geeta Bali (1930), Ram Swarup (1920), and Anuradha Paudwal (1954). After him are Anjali Devi (1927), Tabu (1971), Lalita Pawar (1916), Kapil Dev (1959), Ramdev (1965), and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (1983).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, J. H. C. Whitehead ranks 15Before him are Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), and Radhanath Sikdar (1813). After him are Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Akshay Venkatesh (1981), and Raman Parimala (1948).