MATHEMATICIAN

Joseph Wedderburn

1882 - 1948

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Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Wedderburn has received more than 50,741 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Wedderburn is the 914th most popular mathematician (down from 769th in 2019), the 5,220th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,128th in 2019) and the 100th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 914 out of 1,004. Before him are Robert Daniel Carmichael, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Herman Chernoff, George Szekeres, and Andrei Okounkov. After him are Wilhelm Wirtinger, Ken Ribet, Satish Dhawan, Jacob Bronowski, Martin David Kruskal, and J. H. C. Whitehead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 269. Before him are Ricardo J. Alfaro, Mary Boland, Sybil Thorndike, N. C. Wyeth, Milton Sills, and Robert G. Vignola. After him are Louis Wilkins, Ethel Clayton, Conrad Christensen, George Siegmann, Helena Kottler Vurnik, and George Bonhag. Among people deceased in 1948, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 187. Before him are René Benjamin, István Barta, Carl Abrahamsson, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Elissa Landi, and Samuel S. Hinds. After him are Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Mary Nolan, Susan Glaspell, Yellapragada Subbarow, King Baggot, and Warren William.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 5,220 out of 8,785. Before him are Terry Chimes (1956), Charlotte Riley (1981), Basil Heatley (1933), Kenny Acheson (1957), China Miéville (1972), and R. D. Blackmore (1825). After him are Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), Mary Lamb (1764), John Cannon (1933), Charles Lapworth (1842), Lionel Jeffries (1926), and Archie Scott Brown (1927).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 100. Before 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). After him are George Peacock (1791), James Maynard (1987), Graham Higman (1917), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), Neil Sloane (1939), and Timothy Gowers (1963).

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