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MATHEMATICIAN

John Edensor Littlewood

1885 - 1977

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John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Edensor Littlewood has received more than 746,721 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Edensor Littlewood is the 306th most popular mathematician (down from 171st in 2019), the 1,556th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 855th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Mathematician.

John Edensor Littlewood is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is most well known for his contributions to the theory of prime numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 306 out of 823. Before him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Pierre Deligne, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Theon of Smyrna, Enrico Bombieri, and Wilhelm Ackermann. After him are Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Georg Alexander Pick, Paul Cohen, Giambattista Benedetti, Lev Pontryagin, and Oronce Finé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 81. Before him are Władysław Raczkiewicz, Sydney Chaplin, Frank Knight, Friedrich Kellner, Lev Rudnev, and Jacques Feyder. After him are Constantin Sănătescu, Theodor Kaluza, Lilly Reich, Dimitrios Loundras, Camille Chautemps, and Pierre Renoir. Among people deceased in 1977, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 76. Before him are Jacques Tourneur, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Edmund Veesenmayer, Shogo Kamo, and Džemal Bijedić. After him are James M. Cain, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Miloš Crnjanski, Delmer Daves, Samael Aun Weor, and Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 1,556 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Glenda Jackson (1936), Peter Lawford (1923), James McAvoy (1979), Karen Armstrong (1944), and Ronnie O'Sullivan (1975). After him are Ally McCoist (1962), Bertram Ramsay (1883), George Shaw (1751), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Margaret Burbidge (1919), and Olaf Stapledon (1886).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 34. Before him are William George Horner (1786), John Wilkins (1614), John Graunt (1620), Peter Barlow (1776), William Jones (1675), and Alan Baker (1939). After him are Frank P. Ramsey (1903), George Green (1793), Edward Waring (1736), William Sealy Gosset (1876), James Stirling (1692), and David Cox (1924).

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