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Robert Recorde

Welsh mathematician and inventor of the equals sign

1512 - 1558

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His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Robert Recorde is the 276th most popular mathematician (down from 242nd in 2024), the 1,313th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,157th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Mathematician.

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Robert Recorde is the most memorable of the 2 notable people born in Tenby, in what is now modern-day United Kingdom.

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More than 4 centuries after death, Robert Recorde still holds rank #17,979 among all individuals in Pantheon.

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Robert Recorde's biography appears in 38 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 80% of all Mathematicians.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Robert Recorde ranks 276 out of 1,004. Before him are Jean-Robert Argand, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Jabir ibn Aflah, Paul Lévy, and Seymour Papert. After him are Lloyd Shapley, Israel Gelfand, Alan Baker, Édouard Roche, Vitello, and George Atwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1512, Robert Recorde ranks 10. Before him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Henry, King of Portugal, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Devlet I Giray, and Sibylle of Cleves. After him are Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Prospero Fontana, Diego Laynez, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Cristoforo Madruzzo, and Galeazzo Alessi. Among people deceased in 1558, Robert Recorde ranks 8. Before him are Mary I of England, Hurrem Sultan, Mary of Hungary, Eleanor of Austria, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and Clément Janequin. After him are Johannes Bugenhagen, Reginald Pole, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Anna van Egmont, Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, and Jean Fernel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Recorde ranks 1,313 out of 8,785. Before him are PJ Harvey (1969), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Robert Fludd (1574), Lee Child (1954), Frances Fisher (1952), and Sacha Baron Cohen (1971). After him are Hugh Griffith (1912), Frank Oz (1944), Jonathan Edwards (1966), Arthur Phillip (1738), Luke Evans (1979), and Elias Ashmole (1617).

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Among Mathematicians In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Recorde ranks 31. Before him are Henry Briggs (1561), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Tait (1831), Michael Atiyah (1929), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), and Lady Byron (1792). After him are Alan Baker (1939), George Atwood (1745), John Horton Conway (1937), John Wilkins (1614), Edward Waring (1736), and John Edensor Littlewood (1885).

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