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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 113,597 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Hopkins is the 763rd most popular mathematician (down from 705th in 2019), the 4,019th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,693rd in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 16

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  • 3.43

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Hopkins ranks 763 out of 823. Before him are Sergei Adian, Corrado Segre, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Maxim Kontsevich, Nathan Jacobson, and Mary Everest Boole. After him are Robin Hartshorne, William Gemmell Cochran, Øystein Ore, Dmitri Anosov, Rudy Rucker, and Ngô Bảo Châu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, William Hopkins ranks 46. Before him are Stephen F. Austin, Nana Asmaʼu, Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, Henry Charles Carey, and Erik Johan Stagnelius. After him are Jan Frans Willems, John Clare, Manuel Menéndez, Eliphalet Remington, Robert Edmond Grant, and Thomas Doughty. Among people deceased in 1866, William Hopkins ranks 39. Before him are John Ross, William Henry Harvey, Christian Albrecht Bluhme, Henryk Rzewuski, Louis Meijer, and Thomas Love Peacock. After him are Matvey Gusev, Lewis Cass, José Ignacio Pavón, George Ord, Louis Fraser, and Joseph Weydemeyer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hopkins ranks 4,019 out of 7,765. Before him are Christopher Cockerell (1910), Carole Shelley (1939), Theo Walcott (1989), Juliet Mills (1941), Michael Frayn (1933), and Mick Rock (1948). After him are David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905), Scott Speedman (1975), H. B. Warner (1876), Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880), Thomas Campion (1567), and Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Hopkins ranks 85. Before him are Douglas Hartree (1897), E. T. Whittaker (1873), William Henry Young (1863), Benjamin Robins (1707), Simon Donaldson (1957), and Mary Everest Boole (1832). After him are William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), and Horace Lamb (1849).

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