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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 40,195 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Young is the 730th most popular mathematician, the 3,760th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 81st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Henry Young ranks 730 out of 823. Before him are Leopold Vietoris, Grigore Moisil, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Tom M. Apostol, Wendelin Werner, and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack. After him are Leonard Nelson, Yitang Zhang, Vaughan Jones, Marina Ratner, Laurent Lafforgue, and Charles Fefferman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, William Henry Young ranks 134. Before him are Blanche Bingley, Sergey Oldenburg, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Marguerite Audoux, George Henry Peters, and Broncia Koller-Pinell. After him are Horatio Parker, Sándor Bródy, Peider Lansel, Corrado Segre, Eduard David, and John Goodall. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Young ranks 188. Before him are May Robson, Herbert Selpin, Jakob van Hoddis, Ioannis Malokinis, Hermann Harms, and Hernando Siles Reyes. After him are Marcellin Boule, Belisario Porras Barahona, Racho Petrov, Gertrud Adelborg, Sidney Fox, and Lucy Parsons.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 3,760 out of 7,765. Before him are William Rutter Dawes (1799), Paul Anderson (1978), John Paul Young (1950), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968), and Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar (940). After him are Angus Macfadyen (1963), John Foxx (1948), Pybba of Mercia (570), Carlo Acutis (1991), Jack Davenport (1973), and Melanie C (1974).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 81. Before him are Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), William Whiston (1667), William Shanks (1812), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Douglas Hartree (1897), and E. T. Whittaker (1873). After him are Benjamin Robins (1707), Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), and Joseph Wedderburn (1882).

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