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MATHEMATICIAN

W. V. D. Hodge

1903 - 1975

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Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge (; 17 June 1903 – 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. V. D. Hodge has received more than 125,067 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). W. V. D. Hodge is the 500th most popular mathematician (up from 665th in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,421st in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, W. V. D. Hodge ranks 500 out of 823Before her are Jacques Herbrand, Louis Bachelier, Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Frigyes Riesz, and Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī. After her are William Kingdon Clifford, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Julius Petersen, Roy Kerr, Heinrich Martin Weber, and Wilhelm Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, W. V. D. Hodge ranks 163Before her are W. Ross Ashby, Gaito Gazdanov, Ona Munson, Peppino De Filippo, Rudolf Wolters, and Lili Kraus. After her are Felice Bonetto, André Maschinot, Ivar Johansson, Corrado Bafile, Gʻafur Gʻulom, and Orde Wingate. Among people deceased in 1975, W. V. D. Hodge ranks 111Before her are Richard Conte, Ernst Alexanderson, Mark Donohue, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Vladimir Kuts, and Annette Kellermann. After her are Louis Van Hege, Tony Brise, Aníbal Troilo, G. I. Taylor, Olga Bergholz, and Ezzard Charles.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. V. D. Hodge ranks 2,426 out of 7,765Before her are Blaze Bayley (1963), Blanche of England (1392), William Nicholson (1753), Patricia Routledge (1929), Josephine Tey (1896), and James Whale (1889). After her are William Kingdon Clifford (1845), John Alcott (1930), Samantha Bond (1961), Edmund Crouchback (1245), Henry Cole (1808), and Peter Cheyney (1896).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, W. V. D. Hodge ranks 51Before her are Roger Cotes (1682), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Eric Temple Bell (1883), David Mumford (1937), Harold Jeffreys (1891), and John Pell (1611). After her are William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Henry Dudeney (1857), G. I. Taylor (1886), Egon Pearson (1895), Mary Cartwright (1900), and Sydney Chapman (1888).