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Edward Routh

1831 - 1907

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Edward John Routh (; 20 January 1831 – 7 June 1907) was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Routh is the 646th most popular mathematician (down from 592nd in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Canada (down from 259th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Edward Routh ranks 646 out of 1,004. Before him are Ludwig Bieberbach, John Playfair, Beppo Levi, Heinz Hopf, Federico Commandino, and Lev Schnirelmann. After him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Alessandro Galilei, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and Dai Zhen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Edward Routh ranks 79. Before him are Alexander, Prince of Lippe, Jacob W. Davis, Salomon Jadassohn, Georg Sauerwein, Arsenio Martínez Campos, and Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet. After him are Gustav Radde, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Heinrich von Stephan, Archibald Scott Couper, Reinhold Begas, and Ippolito Nievo. Among people deceased in 1907, Edward Routh ranks 73. Before him are Luis Sáenz Peña, Maurice Loewy, Charles Dancla, Lucile Grahn, Ernst von Bergmann, and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. After him are Ottomar Anschütz, Moritz Steinschneider, William Howard Russell, Bernhard Hammer, Eva Nansen, and Léon Serpollet.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Edward Routh ranks 305 out of 1,622. Before him are Kim Coates (1958), Snow (1969), Patricia Jones (1930), Gordon Thomson (1945), Roberta Bondar (1945), and Barry Pepper (1970). After him are Lawrence Lambe (1863), Deborah Kara Unger (1966), Tommy Chong (1938), David Card (1956), Guy Laliberté (1959), and Marc Singer (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Edward Routh ranks 5. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863), Simon Newcomb (1835), Louis Nirenberg (1925), and Robert Langlands (1936). After him are William Kahan (1933), Albert W. Tucker (1905), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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