MATHEMATICIAN

William Gemmell Cochran

1909 - 1980

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William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gemmell Cochran has received more than 76,641 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gemmell Cochran is the 906th most popular mathematician (down from 762nd in 2019), the 5,080th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,025th in 2019) and the 99th most popular British Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 906 out of 1,004. Before him are Phillip Griffiths, Richard Borcherds, Antoni Zygmund, Javier Perez-Capdevila, Erna Schneider Hoover, and W. T. Tutte. After him are Øystein Ore, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Herman Chernoff, and George Szekeres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 385. Before him are Joyce Cooper, Stefan Skoumal, Karen Morley, Dragomir Tošić, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, and Vivian Vance. After him are Teofilo Spasojević, Vladimir Barmin, Frank Albertson, Alan Curtis, Piero Scotti, and Raúl Landini. Among people deceased in 1980, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 277. Before him are Dorothy Stratten, Nelson López, Zakaria Chihab, John Kotelawala, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and John McEwen. After him are Shohachi Ishii, Gumercindo Gómez, Rachel Fuller Brown, Pietro Genovesi, Tryggve Gran, and Marion Zinderstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 5,080 out of 8,785. Before him are Lionel Atwill (1885), Ann Cleeves (1954), Tommy Lawton (1919), Keith Allen (1953), G. D. H. Cole (1889), and W. T. Tutte (1917). After him are Reginald Hill (1936), Mark Hateley (1961), John Edwards (1953), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), James McHenry (1753), and Ran Laurie (1915).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 99. Before him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Thomas Heath (1861), Philip Hall (1904), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), Richard K. Guy (1916), and W. T. Tutte (1917). After him are Joseph Wedderburn (1882), George Peacock (1791), James Maynard (1987), Graham Higman (1917), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), and Neil Sloane (1939).

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