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Timothy Gowers

1963 - Today

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Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timothy Gowers has received more than 483,753 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Timothy Gowers is the 860th most popular mathematician (down from 798th in 2019), the 5,188th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,908th in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 32

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  • 3.39

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  • 4.11

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Timothy Gowers ranks 860 out of 823. Before him are Branko Grünbaum, Neil Sloane, Phillip Griffiths, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Claire Voisin, and J. H. C. Whitehead. After him are W. T. Tutte, James Waddell Alexander II, Javier Perez-Capdevila, William Spottiswoode, Bill Gosper, and Daina Taimiņa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Timothy Gowers ranks 489. Before him are Yelena Romanova, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tataw, Christophe Barratier, Marcus Nispel, and Éric Di Meco. After him are Jane Luu, Joel Gretsch, Milko Djurovski, Farin Urlaub, Shin Kyung-sook, and Vladimír Růžička.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Timothy Gowers ranks 5,188 out of 7,765. Before him are David Hobbs (1939), James Bowen (1979), Calum Scott (1988), Jamie Bamber (1973), Jamie Cullum (1979), and John Aston Sr. (1921). After him are Anna Neagle (1904), Pat Rice (1949), George Peele (1556), Lalla Ward (1951), David Jacobs (1888), and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Timothy Gowers ranks 101. Before him are I. J. Good (1916), Philip Hall (1904), Charles Hutton (1737), Simon Singh (1964), Neil Sloane (1939), and Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765). After him are W. T. Tutte (1917), William Spottiswoode (1825), Nigel Hitchin (1946), Keith Devlin (1947), Marcus du Sautoy (1965), and Dusa McDuff (1945).

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