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William Burnside

1852 - 1927

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This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920). William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. Burnside was born in London in 1852. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Burnside is the 654th most popular mathematician (down from 620th in 2019), the 3,154th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,889th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Burnside ranks 654 out of 1,004. Before him are Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Alessandro Galilei, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Dai Zhen, and Haskell Curry. After him are Johan Jensen, Aleksey Krylov, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, Ludwig Schläfli, and Oswald Veblen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Burnside ranks 85. Before him are Otto Binswanger, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, Meijer de Haan, Eilif Peterssen, Vasily Safonov, and Max Carl Wilhelm Weber. After him are Kristján Jónsson, Edwin Austin Abbey, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Hans Huber, and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. Among people deceased in 1927, William Burnside ranks 91. Before him are Ernest Starling, Ram Prasad Bismil, Franz Rohr von Denta, Borisav Stanković, Miguel Pro, and Matilde Serao. After him are Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, George Nichols, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Shushanik Kurghinian, Maximilian Harden, and Hermann Obrist.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 3,155 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Nick Hornby (1957), Richard Marquand (1937), Jack Cardiff (1914), and Dawn Addams (1930). After him are James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811), Freddie Highmore (1992), John Sims (1749), Sam Claflin (1986), Anthony Carlisle (1768), and Jack Clayton (1921).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Burnside ranks 69. Before him are Henry Dudeney (1857), Sydney Chapman (1888), James Ivory (1765), Douglas Hartree (1897), John Playfair (1748), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907). After him are Robert Simson (1687), John Hadley (1682), Egon Pearson (1895), Paul Bernays (1888), Benjamin Robins (1707), and John Cairncross (1913).

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