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William Hopkins

1793 - 1866

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William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the "senior-wrangler maker." He also made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hopkins has received more than 124,290 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William Hopkins is the 720th most popular mathematician (up from 760th in 2019), the 3,387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,011th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Hopkins ranks 720 out of 1,004. Before him are Gustav de Vries, Ion Barbu, Lev Schnirelmann, Evgraf Fedorov, David Cox, and Nikoloz Muskhelishvili. After him are Eliyahu Rips, Yuri Matiyasevich, Maxim Kontsevich, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Charles Hutton, and Alicia Boole Stott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, William Hopkins ranks 42. Before him are Kazim Rashti, Simonas Daukantas, Diego Portales, Martin Rathke, Stephen F. Austin, and Joseph Paul Gaimard. After him are Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, Jan Frans Willems, Antoni Malczewski, Henry Charles Carey, and Erik Johan Stagnelius. Among people deceased in 1866, William Hopkins ranks 37. Before him are Adolf Bernhard Marx, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Manuel Bulnes, Peter Joseph Lenné, János Scitovszky, and Christian Albrecht Bluhme. After him are John McDouall Stuart, Louis Meijer, Jean-Jacques Willmar, Louis Fraser, Lewis Cass, and John Ross.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hopkins ranks 3,387 out of 8,785. Before him are John Shakespeare (1530), Susan George (1950), Edward Thomas (1878), Stanley Baker (1928), Michael Mann (1942), and Algernon Sidney (1623). After him are Ian Abercrombie (1934), Alison Moyet (1961), George Abecassis (1913), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), John Mawe (1764), and Peter Grant (1935).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Hopkins ranks 75. Before him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), James Ivory (1765), and David Cox (1924). After him are Charles Hutton (1737), Douglas Hartree (1897), Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), and Horace Lamb (1849).

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