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William Whiston

1667 - 1752

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William Whiston (9 December 1667 – 22 August 1752) was an English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton. He is now probably best known for helping to instigate the Longitude Act in 1714 (and his attempts to win the rewards that it promised) and his important translations of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus (which are still in print). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Whiston has received more than 264,721 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. William Whiston is the 622nd most popular mathematician (up from 696th in 2019), the 2,903rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,523rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Whiston ranks 622 out of 1,004. Before him are Michael Artin, Jean Bourgain, Robert Langlands, Pingala, William Burnside, and Edward Arthur Milne. After him are Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Georg Mohr, Robert Axelrod, Aleksey Krylov, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and John Pell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, William Whiston ranks 20. Before him are Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, and Pietro Ottoboni. After him is John Arbuthnot. Among people deceased in 1752, William Whiston ranks 14. Before him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Jean François de Troy, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Joseph Butler, Pietro Grimani, and Charles-Antoine Coypel. After him is Daniel Marot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Whiston ranks 2,903 out of 8,785. Before him are Maurice Evans (1901), James Purefoy (1964), Norman Read (1931), Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), and David Frost (1939). After him are Nat Lofthouse (1925), Steven Wilson (1967), David Murray (1909), Edith Hannam (1878), Richard Addinsell (1904), and John Michael Wright (1617).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Whiston ranks 60. Before him are Ernest William Brown (1866), Harold Jeffreys (1891), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), and Edward Arthur Milne (1896). After him are John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), and Max Newman (1897).

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