MATHEMATICIAN

John Pell

1611 - 1685

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John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician and political agent abroad. He was made Royal Chair of Mathematics at Orange College by the Prince of Orange, and was under the patronage of Sir Charles Cavendish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Pell has received more than 71,158 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Pell is the 628th most popular mathematician (down from 491st in 2019), the 2,915th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,383rd in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Pell ranks 628 out of 1,004Before him are William Whiston, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Georg Mohr, Robert Axelrod, Aleksey Krylov, and Leonard Eugene Dickson. After him are Robert Simson, Elias M. Stein, Alexander Gelfond, Ingrid Daubechies, Hilda Geiringer, and Joseph Diez Gergonne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, John Pell ranks 21Before him are James Harrington, Henry Ireton, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Giancarlo de' Medici, Mary Dyer, and Andreas Hammerschmidt. After him is Willem Piso. Among people deceased in 1685, John Pell ranks 14Before him are Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Michel Le Tellier, Thomas Otway, and Francisco Herrera the Younger. After him is Francisco Rizi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Pell ranks 2,915 out of 8,785Before him are Richard Addinsell (1904), John Michael Wright (1617), Mick Jackson (1943), Paul Simonon (1955), Fay Weldon (1931), and Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868). After him are Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christina Pickles (1935), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Robert Simson (1687), Barry Morse (1918), and Graham Sutherland (1903).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Pell ranks 61Before him are Harold Jeffreys (1891), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), and William Whiston (1667). After him are Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), and Ian Stewart (1945).