Most popular biographies

Of our more than 1550 biographies, those below are the 100 which were consulted most often in the last three months.
The number in [brackets] (new entry/up/down) is their position the last time we carried out this exercise in November 2000.
There were nearly twice as many accesses of Nash's biography (about a third of a million) as Einstein's (the second on the list).

Nash [ ] Einstein [1] Newton [3] Pythagoras [2] Galileo [9] Archimedes [5] Pascal [4] Copernicus [7] Euclid [6] Aristotle [14] Descartes [12] Euler [10] Fibonacci [8] Gauss [16] Kepler [11] Plato [20] Bohr, Niels [13] Ptolemy [28] Leibniz [18] Fermat [15] Leonardo [48] Napier [23] Eratosthenes [21] Godel [53] Babbage [22]

Hypatia [19] Thales [24] Keynes [36] al-Khwarizmi [41] Maxwell [39] Boyle [30] von Neumann [25] Ohm [63] Wiener, Norbert [100] Democritus [17] Bernoulli, Daniel [54] Agnesi [32] Hooke [34] Hilbert [42] Noether, Emmy [33] Mandelbrot [50] Ramanujan [27] Germain [31] Fourier [45] Cantor [38] Laplace [55] Boole [29] Lagrange [51] Planck [43] Brahe [35]

Riemann [37] Wiles [68] Escher [90] Apollonius [49] Schrodinger [64] Russell [46] Galois [26] Hollerith [ ] Khayyam [40] Lovelace [62] Huygens [70] Aristarchus [78] Durer [85] Ampere [ ] Heisenberg [74] Abel [57] Banneker [ ] Cauchy [58] Turing [ ] Erdos [ ] Poisson [ ] Hubble [ ] Hawking [ ] Hobbes [87] Cardan [60]

Diophantus [47] Hopper [94] Kovalevskaya [44] Wren [ ] Halley [84] Poincare [91] Zeno of Elea [66] Thomson [ ] Hipparchus [83] Ahmes [52] Mobius [61] Aiken [73] Bernoulli, Jacob [59] Shannon [ ] Feynman [ ] Wallis [79] Nightingale [ ] Coulomb [ ] Mersenne [65] Hamilton [72] Heron [ ] Bernoulli, Johann [67] Viete [77] Dirac [76] Broglie [ ]

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