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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 46,831 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Wedderburn is the 772nd most popular mathematician (down from 762nd in 2019), the 4,136th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,295th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 772 out of 823Before him are Øystein Ore, Dmitri Anosov, Rudy Rucker, Ngô Bảo Châu, Raoul Bott, and Georges de Rham. After him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francesco Severi, Shinichi Mochizuki, Richard Brauer, Wu Wenjun, and Cédric Villani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 222Before him are Harry Myers, Juan Guevara, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Jimmy Hogan, Edwin Barclay, and Max Hainle. After him are Péter Tóth, George van Rossem, Edward Van Sloan, Oswald Holmberg, Axel Sjöblom, and Maurice Peeters. Among people deceased in 1948, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 148Before him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles A. Beard, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Claude McKay, Edgar Kennedy, and Frank Benford. After him are Juan Esteban Montero, Arthur Whitten Brown, Thomas Mofolo, Adolf Kainz, René Benjamin, and Carl Abrahamsson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 4,136 out of 7,765Before him are Robin Cook (1946), John Abbot (1751), Roger Allam (1953), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Matthew Lewis (1989), and Douglas Slocombe (1913). After him are Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Vincent Nichols (1945), Richard Gunn (1871), Val McDermid (1955), Ian Charleson (1949), and John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 87Before him are William Henry Young (1863), Benjamin Robins (1707), Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), and William Gemmell Cochran (1909). After him are Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), Horace Lamb (1849), Richard K. Guy (1916), and Frank Morley (1860).