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Alicia Boole Stott

1860 - 1940

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Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was a British mathematician. She made a number of contributions to the field and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. She grasped four-dimensional geometry from an early age, and introduced the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four or more dimensions. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alicia Boole Stott is the 793rd most popular mathematician (down from 726th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 201st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alicia Boole Stott ranks 793 out of 1,004Before her are George Salmon, Dmitry Grave, Vladimir Voevodsky, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Rudy Rucker, and Maryna Viazovska. After her are Oswald Teichmüller, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Demetrios Christodoulou, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Paul du Bois-Reymond, and Javier Perez-Capdevila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Alicia Boole Stott ranks 123Before her are Alexey Favorsky, Jan Kasprowicz, Chandramukhi Basu, Frank Morley, Roger de Barbarin, and Carlos José Solórzano. After her are John Antoine Nau, Ferdinand Boberg, Ekaterina Karavelova, Robert Bacon, Ali Rıza Pasha, and Antônio Parreiras. Among people deceased in 1940, Alicia Boole Stott ranks 162Before her are Albert Richter, Charley Chase, Wilhelm Anderson, Agnes Ayres, Julián Besteiro, and Georgia Coleman. After her are Wilfred Lucas, Kalliroi Parren, Yuly Shokalsky, Manuel González García, Johan Anker, and Józef Pankiewicz.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Alicia Boole Stott ranks 246 out of 549Before her are George Salmon (1819), Michael McElhatton (1963), Lena Rice (1866), Ronnie Drew (1934), Joe Kelly (1913), and Oliver Plunkett (1625). After her are Charles Haughey (1925), Joshua Pim (1869), John Joly (1857), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), and Finnian of Clonard (470).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ireland

Among mathematicians born in Ireland, Alicia Boole Stott ranks 5Before her are Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), and George Salmon (1819). After her are Henry John Stephen Smith (1826).