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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

1848 - 1928

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (5 November 1848, in Lewisham — 7 December 1928, in Cambridge) was a prominent English mathematician and astronomer. He is known for Glaisher's theorem, an important result in the field of integer partitions, and for the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant, a number important in both mathematics and physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Whitbread Lee Glaisher has received more than 114,053 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher is the 865th most popular mathematician (down from 785th in 2019), the 4,546th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,272nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 865 out of 1,004. Before him are Hans Rademacher, Roger Apéry, Michael Aschbacher, Richard Brauer, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, and William Shanks. After him are Francesco Severi, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Thomas Heath, Solomon Marcus, George Salmon, and Mark Kac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 111. Before him are Grant Allen, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Waldemar Rosenberger, Jørgen Løvland, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Otto Bütschli. After him are Matthew Webb, Amos Burn, Albert Parsons, W. G. Grace, Eliodoro Villazón, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Among people deceased in 1928, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 111. Before him are Roman Steinberg, Karl Röderer, Nina Bang, Lewis Howard Latimer, Pierre Puiseux, and Bill Haywood. After him are Xiang Jingyu, Jan Sztolcman, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Árpád Tóth, Edmund Gosse, and George Washington Goethals.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 4,546 out of 8,785. Before him are Binnie Barnes (1903), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Simon Blackburn (1944), William Shanks (1812), David Marr (1945), and Richard K. Morgan (1965). After him are Kathleen Booth (1922), Dennis Poore (1916), Dave Edmunds (1944), James Herbert (1943), Susan Hampshire (1937), and Harry Blackstaffe (1868).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher ranks 93. Before him are Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Thomas Henderson (1798), Simon Donaldson (1957), I. J. Good (1916), Richard Taylor (1962), and William Shanks (1812). After him are Thomas Heath (1861), Philip Hall (1904), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), Richard K. Guy (1916), W. T. Tutte (1917), and William Gemmell Cochran (1909).

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