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William Henry Young

1863 - 1942

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William Henry Young FRS (London, 20 October 1863 – Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus, amongst other fields, and made contributions to the study of functions of several complex variables. He was the husband of Grace Chisholm Young, with whom he authored and co-authored 214 papers and 4 books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Young is the 823rd most popular mathematician (down from 766th in 2019), the 4,361st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,761st in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Henry Young ranks 823 out of 1,004. Before him are Edward O. Thorp, Mikhail Suslin, William Feller, Mary Everest Boole, Anatoly Karatsuba, and Stefan Mazurkiewicz. After him are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Walter Rudin, Douglas McIlroy, Hans Rademacher, Ennio de Giorgi, and Hellmuth Kneser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, William Henry Young ranks 154. Before him are Edgar Syers, Dmitry Grave, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Carl H. Eigenmann, Ida Freund, and Stanisław Zaremba. After him are Corrado Segre, Outram Bangs, Dimitar Stanchov, Eduard David, Léon Frapié, and Victor Basch. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Young ranks 220. Before him are Stanisław Zaremba, Joseph Dempsey, Mahadev Desai, Lucy Parsons, Max Bodenstein, and Käthe Leichter. After him are Nevile Henderson, Františka Plamínková, George M. Cohan, Jonas Vileišis, Belisario Porras Barahona, and Mikhail Yefremov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 4,362 out of 8,785. Before him are Simeon Solomon (1840), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Alfred Maudslay (1850), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), John Lilburne (1614), and George Edwards (1694). After him are Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (1964), Michael Kitchen (1948), Nevile Henderson (1882), Ralph Ineson (1969), William Cobbett (1763), and Alan Brown (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Henry Young ranks 89. Before him are Grace Chisholm Young (1868), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Frank Morley (1860), David Gregory (1659), Horace Lamb (1849), and Mary Everest Boole (1832). After him are William Shanks (1812), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), Richard K. Guy (1916), I. J. Good (1916), and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848).

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