MATHEMATICIAN

William Burnside

1852 - 1927

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This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920). William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Burnside has received more than 60,193 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. William Burnside is the 620th most popular mathematician (down from 568th in 2019), the 2,889th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,729th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 60k

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  • 56.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Burnside ranks 620 out of 1,004. Before him are Jan Śniadecki, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, Jean Bourgain, Robert Langlands, and Pingala. After him are Edward Arthur Milne, William Whiston, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Georg Mohr, Robert Axelrod, and Aleksey Krylov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Burnside ranks 83. Before him are Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe, Edwin Austin Abbey, János Csernoch, Leon Wyczółkowski, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, and Simo Matavulj. After him are Vasily Safonov, Carl Chun, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, and James Dwight. Among people deceased in 1927, William Burnside ranks 94. Before him are David Arellano, Miguel Pro, Shushanik Kurghinian, Paul César Helleu, Ernest Starling, and Matilde Serao. After him are Carl Graebe, Émile Coste, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Hermann Obrist, Maximilian Harden, and Georges Eekhoud.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 2,889 out of 8,785. Before him are Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Anita Brookner (1928), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), and Eduardo Paolozzi (1924). After him are Matthew Macfadyen (1974), Julia McKenzie (1941), Peter Walker (1912), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Josephine Butler (1828), and Nicholas Hilliard (1547).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 58. Before him are Sydney Chapman (1888), Paul Bernays (1888), Ernest William Brown (1866), Harold Jeffreys (1891), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), and G. I. Taylor (1886). After him are Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), and Thomas Digges (1546).

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