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William Jones

1675 - 1749

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William Jones, FRS (1675 – 1 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician best known for his use of the symbol π (the Greek letter Pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley. In November 1711, Jones became a fellow of the Royal Society, and later served as the Royal Society's vice-president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Jones is the 455th most popular mathematician (down from 383rd in 2019), the 2,213th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,784th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Jones ranks 455 out of 1,004. Before him are Goro Shimura, Yves Meyer, Gerd Faltings, Erhard Schmidt, Yutaka Taniyama, and Sam Loyd. After him are Enrico Betti, Mary Cartwright, Vladimir Smirnov, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Adriaan van Roomen, and Klaus Roth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, William Jones ranks 6. Before him are Pope Benedict XIV, Emperor Higashiyama, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, and Tarabai. After him are Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Guillaume Delisle, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Samuel Clarke, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg. Among people deceased in 1749, William Jones ranks 10. Before him are Alessandro Magnasco, Shahu I, Adel Shah, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, and Jan van Huysum. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, André Cardinal Destouches, Mark Catesby, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 2,213 out of 8,785. Before him are Steve Jones (1955), Liam Gallagher (1972), Mary Dyer (1611), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), and Geri Halliwell (1972). After him are John Stevens Henslow (1796), David Platt (1966), David Edward Hughes (1831), Cliff Jones (1935), Mary Cartwright (1900), and Olivia Colman (1974).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 47. Before him are Thomas Simpson (1710), William George Horner (1786), Peter Barlow (1776), Edmund Gunter (1581), Roger Cotes (1682), and Thomas Henderson (1798). After him are Mary Cartwright (1900), Eric Temple Bell (1883), William Sealy Gosset (1876), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), James Stirling (1692), and Ian Stewart (1945).

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