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Henry Thomas Colebrooke

1765 - 1837

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Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE FLS (15 June 1765 – 10 March 1837) was an English orientalist and botanist. He has been described as "the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Thomas Colebrooke is the 928th most popular mathematician (up from 939th in 2019), the 5,367th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,536th in 2019) and the 100th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henry Thomas Colebrooke ranks 928 out of 1,004Before him are Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Caucher Birkar, Ivar Otto Bendixson, Fan Chung, Evelyn Boyd Granville, and Richard Garfield. After him are Barry Mazur, Béla Bollobás, Carl Pomerance, Antoni Zygmund, Yakov Eliashberg, and Poul Heegaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Henry Thomas Colebrooke ranks 35Before him are Petrobey Mavromichalis, Antonio Nariño, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Jakub Jan Ryba, and James Smithson. After him is Daniel Steibelt. Among people deceased in 1837, Henry Thomas Colebrooke ranks 45Before him are Diego Portales, Herman of Alaska, John Soane, Ayub Shah Durrani, Joseph Grimaldi, and Ivan Dmitriev. After him is Edward Donovan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Thomas Colebrooke ranks 5,369 out of 8,785Before him are John George Children (1777), Constant Lambert (1905), Peter Cook (1937), Phyllis Logan (1956), Peter Hill-Wood (1936), and A. Edward Sutherland (1895). After him are John McEnery (1943), Matthew Carter (1937), Brian Kidd (1949), Richard Garriott (1961), Thomas C. Jerdon (1811), and Jackie Burroughs (1939).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Thomas Colebrooke ranks 100Before him are I. J. Good (1916), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Philip Hall (1904), William Spottiswoode (1825), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), and William Gemmell Cochran (1909). After him are W. T. Tutte (1917), Neil Sloane (1939), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), James Maynard (1987), Nigel Hitchin (1946), and Stuart Milner-Barry (1906).