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Thomas Wright

1711 - 1786

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Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Wright has received more than 20,288 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Wright is the 527th most popular mathematician (down from 432nd in 2019), the 2,436th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,107th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Wright ranks 527 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Neumann, Julia Robinson, Martin Ohm, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Eugenio Calabi, and Dai Zhen. After him are Nina Bari, Max Noether, Heinrich Martin Weber, Egon Pearson, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Joseph Ludwig Raabe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Thomas Wright ranks 18. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, William Boyce, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. After him are Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Shah Jahan III, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Stepan Krasheninnikov. Among people deceased in 1786, Thomas Wright ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Pierre Poivre, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, and Bernardo de Gálvez. After him are Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Nathanael Greene, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Gustaf Lundberg, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wright ranks 2,436 out of 8,785. Before him are Terence Davies (1945), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Philip Catherine (1942), Richard Bremmer (1953), Arthur Wynne (1871), and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478). After him are Eddie Clarke (1950), Ian Khama (1953), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Charles James Fox (1749), John Henry Mackay (1864), and Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wright ranks 50. Before him are James Stirling (1692), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), David Mumford (1937), Joseph Raphson (1648), John Playfair (1748), and John Hadley (1682). After him are Egon Pearson (1895), Sydney Chapman (1888), Paul Bernays (1888), Ernest William Brown (1866), Harold Jeffreys (1891), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907).

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