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Simon Newcomb

Canadian-American mathematician

1835 - 1909

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His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Newcomb is the 300th most popular mathematician (down from 246th in 2024), the 107th most popular biography from Canada (down from 89th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Simon Newcomb's biography appears in 41 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 84% of all Mathematicians.

Mar 12

Simon Newcomb shares a March 12 birthday with Ratko Mladić, Gustav Kirchhoff, and George Berkeley.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Simon Newcomb ranks 300 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre Deligne, Adolf Hurwitz, Jesse Douglas, Shing-Tung Yau, Abraham Zacuto, and Oronce Finé. After him are Lorenzo Mascheroni, Yakov Sinai, Robert Axelrod, Michael Stifel, Hillel Furstenberg, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Simon Newcomb ranks 33. Before him are Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Alexandrine Tinné, and Shoqan Walikhanov. After him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Émile Combes. Among people deceased in 1909, Simon Newcomb ranks 26. Before him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Arnold Janssen, Red Cloud, Paul Gachet, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, and Oliver Otis Howard. After him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Renée Vivien, Naftali Herz Imber, and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Simon Newcomb ranks 107 out of 1,622. Before him are Denis Villeneuve (1967), G. A. Cohen (1941), Louis Slotin (1910), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), James Randi (1928), and Michael Ironside (1950). After him are Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Graham Greene (1952), Justin Bieber (1994), and Norma Shearer (1902).

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Among Mathematicians In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Simon Newcomb ranks 2. Before him is John Charles Fields (1863). After him are Louis Nirenberg (1925), Robert Langlands (1936), Edward Routh (1831), William Kahan (1933), Albert W. Tucker (1905), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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