MATHEMATICIAN

Mary Cartwright

1900 - 1998

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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Cartwright has received more than 269,869 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mary Cartwright is the 409th most popular mathematician (up from 527th in 2019), the 1,917th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,543rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Cartwright ranks 409 out of 1,004. Before her are Hans Freudenthal, Bhāskara I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, and Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. After her are Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Thomas Fincke, László Lovász, Abraham Robinson, and Henryk Zygalski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mary Cartwright ranks 129. Before her are Hans Stuck, René Crevel, Fritz London, Alessandro Blasetti, Alexander Novikov, and Victor Young. After her are Victor Kugler, Xavier Cugat, Grigory Shtern, Franziska Donner, Ibrahim Abboud, and Manuel Fleitas Solich. Among people deceased in 1998, Mary Cartwright ranks 108. Before her are Juan José Nogués, Yuri Artyukhin, Richard Hamming, Sani Abacha, Barry Goldwater, and Benjamin Spock. After her are Joan Hickson, Birger Ruud, Hide, Clara Rockmore, Anatoly Rybakov, and Genrich Altshuller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Cartwright ranks 1,917 out of 8,785. Before her are William Kent (1685), William Watson (1715), William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), and Gerald Gardner (1884). After her are Arthur Tansley (1871), Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Mary Hopkin (1950), Julian Lennon (1963), Colin Davis (1927), and George Whitefield (1714).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Mary Cartwright ranks 39. Before her are Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Peter Barlow (1776), George Green (1793), Roger Cotes (1682), William Sealy Gosset (1876), and William Jones (1675). After her are Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Edmund Gunter (1581), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Eric Temple Bell (1883), James Stirling (1692), and W. V. D. Hodge (1903).

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