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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 772,588 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). John Edensor Littlewood is the 283rd most popular mathematician (up from 306th in 2019), the 1,360th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,551st in 2019) and the 29th 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 283 out of 1,004. Before him are Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, Edward Waring, Lloyd Shapley, and Abraham bar Hiyya. After him are Kunihiko Kodaira, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Viktor Bunyakovsky, and Michael Maestlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 75. Before him are Egon Kisch, Soemu Toyoda, Jules Romains, Viktor Schauberger, Agustín Barrios, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are St John Philby, Camille Chautemps, Dora Pejačević, Frank Jack Fletcher, Harlow Shapley, and Jacques Feyder. Among people deceased in 1977, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 67. Before him are Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Félix Gouin, Marien Ngouabi, Tom Pryce, Edmond Hamilton, and Juan Velasco Alvarado. After him are Yevgenia Ginzburg, Hans Martin Sutermeister, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Zózimo, and Edmund Veesenmayer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 1,360 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Paxton (1803), Alexander McQueen (1969), Eileen Essell (1922), Gary Brooker (1945), George Cayley (1773), and Geoff Hurst (1941). After him are Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Reginald Johnston (1874), Donovan (1946), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), and Cicely Saunders (1918).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Edensor Littlewood ranks 29. Before him are Robert Recorde (1512), Thomas Simpson (1710), John Horton Conway (1937), John Wilkins (1614), George Atwood (1745), and Edward Waring (1736). After him are William George Horner (1786), Alan Baker (1939), John Graunt (1620), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Peter Barlow (1776), and George Green (1793).

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