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William Kingdon Clifford

1845 - 1879

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William Kingdon Clifford (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, rotating, translating, and mapping the geometric objects that are being modelled to new positions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kingdon Clifford has received more than 337,847 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). William Kingdon Clifford is the 459th most popular mathematician (up from 499th in 2019), the 2,164th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,421st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Kingdon Clifford ranks 459 out of 1,004. Before him are Yang Hui, William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, Yuri Manin, and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes. After him are Adriaan van Roomen, Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, Yutaka Taniyama, Frigyes Riesz, and Jean Leray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, William Kingdon Clifford ranks 51. Before him are Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, William, Prince of Wied, Jules Guesde, Àngel Guimerà, Friedrich Martens, and Antonio Maceo Grajales. After him are Ivan Puluj, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Gustave Ador, Tina Blau, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin. Among people deceased in 1879, William Kingdon Clifford ranks 31. Before him are Karl Friedrich Mohr, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Karl Koch, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Ludwig Reichenbach, and Jakob Dubs. After him are Sergey Solovyov, Michel Chevalier, Jeanne Jugan, Miguel Grau Seminario, Joseph Poelaert, and Nikolai Zaremba.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kingdon Clifford ranks 2,164 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), Claude Choules (1901), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874). After him are Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Naomie Harris (1976), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Wendy Hiller (1912), and John Needham (1713).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Kingdon Clifford ranks 42. Before him are Roger Cotes (1682), William Sealy Gosset (1876), William Jones (1675), Mary Cartwright (1900), Thomas Bradwardine (1300), and Edmund Gunter (1581). After him are Eric Temple Bell (1883), James Stirling (1692), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), David Mumford (1937), Joseph Raphson (1648), and John Playfair (1748).

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