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MATHEMATICIAN

John Cairncross

1913 - 1995

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John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Cairncross has received more than 1,631,162 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Cairncross is the 543rd most popular mathematician (down from 535th in 2019), the 2,629th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,526th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Cairncross ranks 543 out of 823. Before him are Bhāskara I, Boris Delaunay, Simon von Stampfer, Pingala, Harold Hotelling, and Dmitri Egorov. After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, August Leopold Crelle, Martin Kutta, Richard Montague, Sylvestre François Lacroix, and Giovanni Battista Zupi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, John Cairncross ranks 173. Before him are Yaşar Doğu, Georges Candilis, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Gisela Mauermayer, John Kitzmiller, and Teodoro Fernández. After him are Vasco Pratolini, Salvador Artigas, Mark Robson, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Vince Lombardi, and Ljuba Welitsch. Among people deceased in 1995, John Cairncross ranks 155. Before him are Ioannis Alevras, Kukrit Pramoj, Jesús Garay, Pál Kovács, Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Gisela Mauermayer. After him are Sergio Bertoni, Werner Liebrich, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Eva Gabor, and Katarina Taikon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 2,629 out of 7,765. Before him are Ralph Erskine (1914), Frances Burney (1752), Stephen Daldry (1960), Andrew Lang (1844), Jonathan Edwards (1966), and Cara Delevingne (1992). After him are Sam Claflin (1986), Edwin Landseer (1802), Anne of York (1475), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Sally Potter (1949), and Julian Sands (1958).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 58. Before him are William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Henry Dudeney (1857), G. I. Taylor (1886), Egon Pearson (1895), Mary Cartwright (1900), and Sydney Chapman (1888). After him are Ian Stewart (1945), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), William Burnside (1852), Edmund Gunter (1581), John Lennox (1943), and Joseph Raphson (1648).

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