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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 54,214 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). William Burnside is the 570th most popular mathematician (up from 582nd in 2019), the 2,736th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,721st in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 49.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Burnside ranks 570 out of 823. Before him are Dai Zhen, Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, Karol Borsuk, Jean Frédéric Frenet, and Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin. After him are Gino Fano, Hillel Furstenberg, Nilakantha Somayaji, Edmund Gunter, Pál Turán, and Ilia Vekua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Burnside ranks 76. Before him are Mikoláš Aleš, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, and János Csernoch. After him are Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Eilif Peterssen, Leon Wyczółkowski, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. Among people deceased in 1927, William Burnside ranks 89. Before him are János Csernoch, Charles Warren, Kristian Prestrud, Shushanik Kurghinian, Francis Lane, and Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge. After him are Sascha Schneider, Matilde Serao, David Arellano, Constance Markievicz, Marie Spartali Stillman, and Maximilian Harden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 2,736 out of 7,765. Before him are Gary Hocking (1937), Edward Woodward (1930), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), Robert Stephens (1931), C. Aubrey Smith (1863), and John Burgoyne (1722). After him are Beryl Markham (1902), John Phillips (1800), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Alexander Burnes (1805), Joseph Morgan (1981), and Walter Legge (1906).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 61. Before him are Egon Pearson (1895), Mary Cartwright (1900), Sydney Chapman (1888), John Cairncross (1913), Ian Stewart (1945), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907). After him are Edmund Gunter (1581), John Lennox (1943), Joseph Raphson (1648), John Playfair (1748), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), and Thomas Digges (1546).

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