MATHEMATICIAN

William Henry Young

1863 - 1942

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William Henry Young FRS (London, 20 October 1863 – Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus, amongst other fields, and made contributions to the study of functions of several complex variables. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Henry Young has received more than 43,148 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Young is the 766th most popular mathematician (down from 727th in 2019), the 3,760th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,752nd in 2019) and the 79th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Henry Young ranks 766 out of 1,004. Before him are Svetlana Gannushkina, Sulochana Gadgil, Jacques-Louis Lions, Rudy Rucker, Carl Størmer, and Benjamin Robins. After him are Giuseppe Veronese, Yitang Zhang, Leonida Tonelli, Gilbert Strang, Walter Rudin, and Wendelin Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, William Henry Young ranks 146. Before him are Blanche Bingley, W. W. Jacobs, Hugo Winckler, Frederic G. Kenyon, Sergey Oldenburg, and Mary Whiton Calkins. After him are Eduard David, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Marguerite Audoux, Mabel Cahill, John Goodall, and Camille Erlanger. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Young ranks 204. Before him are Alfred Asikainen, Herbert Selpin, James Juvenal, Mikhail Yefremov, Gertrud Adelborg, and Harald Tammer. After him are Mariya Polivanova, Ants Laikmaa, Ioannis Malokinis, Lucy Parsons, Jüri Jaakson, and Hugh S. Johnson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 3,760 out of 8,785. Before him are William Davenant (1606), Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), Peter Lorimer (1946), Ashley Young (1985), and Benjamin Robins (1707). After him are Herbert Marshall (1890), Victor d'Arcy (1887), Jim Bellamy (1881), Rupert Friend (1981), Jony Ive (1967), and John Hopkinson (1849).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 79. Before him are James Ivory (1765), David Cox (1924), William Hopkins (1793), Charles Hutton (1737), Douglas Hartree (1897), and Benjamin Robins (1707). After him are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909).

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