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MATHEMATICIAN

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

1848 - 1928

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, in Lewisham – 7 December 1928, in Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Whitbread Lee Glaisher has received more than 108,686 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher is the 788th most popular mathematician (down from 651st in 2019), the 4,281st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,286th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 788 out of 823Before him are Richard Taylor, Vladimir Voevodsky, Marshall Harvey Stone, Hans Rademacher, Oskar Perron, and Henri Padé. After him are Luis Caffarelli, Erna Schneider Hoover, George Peacock, Jacob Bronowski, James Lighthill, and Nicolas Fuss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 105Before him are Josef Václav Myslbek, William Frederick Denning, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Jørgen Løvland, Amos Burn, and Helen Allingham. After him are Gunnar Knudsen, Bernard Bosanquet, Lewis Howard Latimer, Diederik Korteweg, and W. G. Grace. Among people deceased in 1928, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 101Before him are Klabund, Gunnar Setterwall, Pierre Puiseux, Jan Sztolcman, Andrew Fisher, and Árpád Tóth. After him are Antonín Sova, Karl Röderer, Gunnar Knudsen, George Dole, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Edmund Gosse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 4,281 out of 7,765Before him are Charles Kent (1852), George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784), Owain Yeoman (1978), Grantley Goulding (1874), Tony Adams (1966), and Toby Kebbell (1982). After him are Sophia Jex-Blake (1840), Richard Ashcroft (1971), Henry Macintosh (1892), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Tony Jay (1933), and Donald Nicol (1923).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 89Before him are Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), and Richard Taylor (1962). After him are George Peacock (1791), Horace Lamb (1849), Richard K. Guy (1916), Frank Morley (1860), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), and I. J. Good (1916).