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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 475,218 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Timothy Gowers is the 946th most popular mathematician (down from 857th in 2019), the 5,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,176th in 2019) and the 106th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 40.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Timothy Gowers by language

Over the past year Timothy Gowers has had the most page views in the with 93,978 views, followed by French (4,234), and Chinese (3,810). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (174.65%), Haitian (169.66%), and Greek (157.61%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Timothy Gowers ranks 946 out of 1,004. Before him are Yakov Eliashberg, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Carl Pomerance, Andrew M. Gleason, Bill Gosper, and Neil Sloane. After him are David Blackwell, Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Christopher Zeeman, Richard Schoen, Mary Ellen Rudin, and Henry John Stephen Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Timothy Gowers ranks 569. Before him are Tasmin Archer, Aaron Burckhard, Iqbal Theba, Ian Brown, Emi Shinohara, and Conrad Lant. After him are Domingos Simões Pereira, Seyran Ateş, Mandakini, Martin Brunner, Jozef Sabovčík, and Lisa Ann Walter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Timothy Gowers ranks 5,666 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian Brown (1963), Jackie Lewis (1936), Harry Johnston (1858), Jane Leeves (1961), Conrad Lant (1963), and Louise Rayner (1832). After him are Peter Doherty (1913), Jimmy Mullen (1923), Susan Bassnett (1945), William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918), Harry Atkinson (1831), and Jack Huston (1982).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Timothy Gowers ranks 106. Before him are Joseph Wedderburn (1882), George Peacock (1791), James Maynard (1987), Graham Higman (1917), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), and Neil Sloane (1939). After him are Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912), Marcus du Sautoy (1965), Frank Adams (1930), Nigel Hitchin (1946), Dusa McDuff (1945), and Simon Singh (1964).

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