1675 - 1749
William Jones, FRS (1675 – 1 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician, most noted for his use of the symbol π (the Greek letter Pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Jones has received more than 52,960 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. William Jones is the 289th most popular mathematician (down from 227th in 2019), the 1,494th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,118th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, William Jones ranks 289 out of 823. Before him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, John Graunt, Atle Selberg, Guo Shoujing, Peter Barlow, and Yi Xing. After him are Hans Hahn, Jacopo Riccati, Alan Baker, Julius Plücker, Johannes Widmann, and Rudolf Lipschitz.
1922 - 2004
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 283
1620 - 1674
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 284
1917 - 2007
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 285
1231 - 1316
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 286
1776 - 1862
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 287
683 - 727
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 288
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 289
1879 - 1934
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 290
1676 - 1754
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 291
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 292
1801 - 1868
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 293
1460 - 1505
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 294
1832 - 1903
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 295
Among people born in 1675, William Jones ranks 7. Before him are Pope Benedict XIV, Emperor Higashiyama, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Tarabai, and Claude Alexandre de Bonneval. After him are Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Samuel Clarke, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Guillaume Delisle, and James Thornhill. Among people deceased in 1749, William Jones ranks 6. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. After him are Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Matthias Bel, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and Mkhitar Sebastatsi.
1675 - 1758
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 1
1675 - 1710
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 2
1675 - 1755
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 3
1675 - 1742
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 4
1675 - 1761
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 5
1675 - 1747
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 7
1675 - 1737
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 8
1675 - 1733
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 9
1675 - 1729
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 10
1675 - 1713
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 11
1675 - 1726
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 12
1675 - 1734
HPI: 42.14
Rank: 13
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1
1677 - 1749
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 2
1719 - 1749
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 3
1667 - 1749
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 4
1676 - 1749
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 5
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 6
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7
1682 - 1749
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 8
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 9
1690 - 1749
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 10
1662 - 1749
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 11
1676 - 1749
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 1,494 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Macintosh (1766), Robert Filmer (1588), John Nash (1752), John Hunter (1728), Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770), and Oswald of Northumbria (604). After him are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Gareth Bale (1989), Norman Davies (1939), Alan Baker (1939), David Edward Hughes (1831), and Sister Nivedita (1867).
1766 - 1843
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 1,488
1588 - 1653
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,489
1752 - 1835
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,490
1728 - 1793
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,491
1770 - 1828
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,492
604 - 642
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 1,493
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 1,494
1773 - 1843
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 1,495
1989 - Present
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 1,496
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 1,497
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 1,498
1831 - 1900
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,499
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,500
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 32. Before him are George Atwood (1745), Thomas Simpson (1710), William George Horner (1786), John Wilkins (1614), John Graunt (1620), and Peter Barlow (1776). After him are Alan Baker (1939), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), George Green (1793), Edward Waring (1736), and William Sealy Gosset (1876).
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 26
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 27
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 28
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 29
1620 - 1674
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 30
1776 - 1862
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 31
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 32
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 33
1885 - 1977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1903 - 1930
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 35
1793 - 1841
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 36
1736 - 1798
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 37
1876 - 1937
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 38