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I. J. Good

1916 - 2009

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Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was a professor at Virginia Tech. He was born Isadore Jacob Gudak to a Polish Jewish family in London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. I. J. Good is the 862nd most popular mathematician (down from 847th in 2019), the 4,664th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,391st in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, I. J. Good ranks 862 out of 1,004. Before him are Yury Osipov, Henri Padé, Richard Taylor, Yasumasa Kanada, Richard K. Guy, and Émile Léonard Mathieu. After him are Cédric Villani, Raoul Bott, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Marston Morse, Cornelius Lanczos, and Roger Apéry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, I. J. Good ranks 262. Before him are Ken Curtis, Gyula Prassler, Ignacio Trelles, Kazimierz Brandys, Lidia Wysocka, and Richard K. Guy. After him are Rupert Davies, Roger Apéry, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, John Kundla, Günther Ortmann, and Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem. Among people deceased in 2009, I. J. Good ranks 315. Before him are Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Dell Hymes, Igor Starygin, Yevgeny Vesnik, József Sákovics, and Nikolay Anikin. After him are Hugh Hopper, Wayne Allwine, Charles W. Juels, Tony Maggs, Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, and Irving Kristol.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 4,665 out of 8,785. Before him are Albert Ball (1896), Nicholas Hooper (1952), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), Sydney Parkinson (1745), David Walliams (1971), and John Peckham (1227). After him are Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), Gareth Barry (1981), Hugh Hopper (1945), Maud Gonne (1866), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), and Alexander Melville Bell (1819).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, I. J. Good ranks 94. Before him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Henry Young (1863), William Shanks (1812), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), and Richard K. Guy (1916). After him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Philip Hall (1904), William Spottiswoode (1825), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), and Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765).

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