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Richard K. Guy

1916 - 2020

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Richard Kenneth Guy (30 September 1916 – 9 March 2020) was a British mathematician. He was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calgary. He is known for his work in number theory, geometry, recreational mathematics, combinatorics, and graph theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard K. Guy has received more than 223,725 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard K. Guy is the 820th most popular mathematician (down from 511th in 2019), the 4,603rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,393rd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

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  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard K. Guy ranks 820 out of 823. Before him are Heinz Prüfer, Kenneth Appel, Yury Osipov, Elwyn Berlekamp, Volker Strassen, and Curtis T. McMullen. After him are Yuri Linnik, Norman Johnson, Hans Lewy, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Frank Morley, and Martin David Kruskal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Richard K. Guy ranks 256. Before him are Gene Mako, David Brown, Gaylord Nelson, Frank Parker, Ruy de Freitas, and Peter Geach. After him are Don Keefer, Richard Hofstadter, Betty Taylor, Spark Matsunaga, Virginia Gregg, and Giuseppe Tosi. Among people deceased in 2020, Richard K. Guy ranks 580. Before him are Henri Weber, Maurice Moucheraud, Tatyana Prorochenko, Walt Davis, Doug Rogers, and Constand Viljoen. After him are Ravi Zacharias, Joe Williams, Jorge Llopart, Allen Daviau, José Jiménez Lozano, and Laisenia Qarase.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard K. Guy ranks 4,603 out of 7,765. Before him are Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Serena Scott Thomas (1961), Robert H. McNaught (1956), E. W. Hornung (1866), Olivia Manning (1908), and Alex Stepney (1942). After him are Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), William Cobbett (1763), Patricia Quinn (1944), Mary Peters (1939), Kenneth McAlpine (1920), and Lawrence Stone (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Richard K. Guy ranks 92. Before him are William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), and Horace Lamb (1849). After him are Frank Morley (1860), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), I. J. Good (1916), Philip Hall (1904), Charles Hutton (1737), and Simon Singh (1964).

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