MATHEMATICIAN

Joseph Raphson

1648 - 1715

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Raphson has received more than 172,623 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Raphson is the 492nd most popular mathematician (up from 594th in 2019), the 2,298th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,878th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Joseph Raphson has had the most page views in the with 26,890 views, followed by French (5,034), and Spanish (4,871). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (199.33%), Haitian (106.15%), and Hungarian (96.23%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Raphson ranks 492 out of 1,004Before him are Moritz Pasch, Alfred Pringsheim, Friedrich Hirzebruch, René de Saussure, Jean-Étienne Montucla, and Johannes de Muris. After him are Stanisław Leśniewski, Pavel Urysohn, Pierre François Verhulst, Theon of Smyrna, John Playfair, and Mitchell Feigenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1648, Joseph Raphson ranks 12Before him are Johann Michael Bach, Arabella Churchill, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, and René de Froulay de Tessé. After him are Devlet II Giray, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Tommaso Ceva, and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway. Among people deceased in 1715, Joseph Raphson ranks 16Before him are Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Pu Songling, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, François Girardon, Mirwais Hotak, and Pierre Magnol. After him are Nicolas Lemery, Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Nahum Tate.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Raphson ranks 2,298 out of 8,785Before him are William Hudson (1730), Tony Brooks (1932), John Terry (1980), Sylvester McCoy (1943), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and Jimmy Somerville (1961). After him are Alan Gardiner (1879), John Madden (1949), Al Stewart (1945), David Stirling (1915), Paul Greengrass (1955), and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joseph Raphson ranks 47Before him are Edmund Gunter (1581), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Eric Temple Bell (1883), James Stirling (1692), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), and David Mumford (1937). After him are John Playfair (1748), John Hadley (1682), Thomas Wright (1711), Egon Pearson (1895), Sydney Chapman (1888), and Paul Bernays (1888).