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Mary Cartwright

1900 - 1998

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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Cartwright is the 457th most popular mathematician (down from 409th in 2019), the 2,218th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,918th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Cartwright ranks 457 out of 1,004. Before her are Gerd Faltings, Erhard Schmidt, Yutaka Taniyama, Sam Loyd, William Jones, and Enrico Betti. After her are Vladimir Smirnov, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Adriaan van Roomen, Klaus Roth, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, and Luigi Cremona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mary Cartwright ranks 139. Before her are Ibrahim Abboud, Rattanbai Jinnah, Leo Löwenthal, Xavier Cugat, Aristidis Konstantinidis, and Carola Neher. After her are Victor Kugler, Hellmuth Walter, Antun Augustinčić, Johanna Wolf, Victor Young, and Manuel Fleitas Solich. Among people deceased in 1998, Mary Cartwright ranks 115. Before her are Bruno Munari, Birger Ruud, Otto Baum, Yuri Artyukhin, Ramón Sampedro, and Lia Manoliu. After her are Jorge Pacheco Areco, Sani Abacha, Joan Hickson, Olivier Gendebien, Åke Seyffarth, and Moshood Abiola.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Cartwright ranks 2,218 out of 8,785. Before her are Geri Halliwell (1972), William Jones (1675), John Stevens Henslow (1796), David Platt (1966), David Edward Hughes (1831), and Cliff Jones (1935). After her are Olivia Colman (1974), Patrick Magee (1922), Harry Redknapp (1947), Harry Gregg (1932), Nicolas Roeg (1928), and Cassivellaunus (-100).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Mary Cartwright ranks 48. Before her are William George Horner (1786), Peter Barlow (1776), Edmund Gunter (1581), Roger Cotes (1682), Thomas Henderson (1798), and William Jones (1675). After her are Eric Temple Bell (1883), William Sealy Gosset (1876), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), James Stirling (1692), Ian Stewart (1945), and William Kingdon Clifford (1845).

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