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George Peacock

1791 - 1858

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George Peacock FRS (9 April 1791 – 8 November 1858) was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric. He founded what has been called the British algebra of logic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Peacock is the 361st most popular mathematician (up from 926th in 2019), the 1,762nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,295th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George Peacock ranks 361 out of 1,004. Before him are Caspar Wessel, Al-Sijzi, Paul Neményi, Nicholas Mercator, Francesco Maurolico, and John Edensor Littlewood. After him are John Graunt, Paul Émile Appell, Otto Hesse, Alfred J. Lotka, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Martin Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, George Peacock ranks 22. Before him are István Széchenyi, Félix Savart, Peter Cooper, Friedrich Parrot, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, and Minh Mạng. After him are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Ferdinand Hérold, William Elford Leach, Henryk Dembiński, Sergey Aksakov, and Anne Lister. Among people deceased in 1858, George Peacock ranks 30. Before him are Tokugawa Iesada, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Rachel Félix, Felice Orsini, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck. After him are Henry Darcy, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Valentín Gómez Farías, Charles-Louis Havas, Sigismund von Neukomm, and Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Peacock ranks 1,762 out of 8,785. Before him are John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Vidal Sassoon (1928), Jeffrey Archer (1940), Roger Fenton (1819), James Bruce (1730), and Donald Crisp (1882). After him are John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (1934), Allan Clarke (1946), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Robert Chambers (1802), and Patrick Geddes (1854).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, George Peacock ranks 38. Before him are Alan Baker (1939), George Atwood (1745), John Horton Conway (1937), John Wilkins (1614), Edward Waring (1736), and John Edensor Littlewood (1885). After him are John Graunt (1620), Thomas Heath (1861), Thomas Simpson (1710), William George Horner (1786), Peter Barlow (1776), and Edmund Gunter (1581).

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