MATHEMATICIAN

Adriaan van Roomen

1561 - 1615

Photo of Adriaan van Roomen

Icon of person Adriaan van Roomen

Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a mathematician he worked in algebra, trigonometry and geometry; and on the decimal expansion of pi. He solved the Problem of Apollonius using a new method that involved intersecting hyperbolas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adriaan van Roomen has received more than 35,436 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adriaan van Roomen is the 460th most popular mathematician (down from 416th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 356th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 35k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adriaan van Roomen ranks 460 out of 1,004. Before him are William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, Yuri Manin, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, and William Kingdon Clifford. After him are Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, Yutaka Taniyama, Frigyes Riesz, Jean Leray, and Eric Temple Bell.

Most Popular Mathematicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Adriaan van Roomen ranks 11. Before him are Katō Kiyomasa, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Henry Briggs, Ii Naomasa, Fukushima Masanori, and Thomas Fincke. After him are Philippe van Lansberge, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Basilius Besler, and Mary Sidney. Among people deceased in 1615, Adriaan van Roomen ranks 16. Before him are Claudio Acquaviva, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Pieter Both, Sō Yoshitoshi, and Marcantonio Memmo. After him are Lady Arbella Stuart, ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, and Melchior Vulpius.

Others Born in 1561

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1615

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adriaan van Roomen ranks 416 out of 1,190. Before him are Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), Erik De Vlaeminck (1945), Paul Vanden Boeynants (1919), Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813), André Delvaux (1926), and Jozef De Kesel (1947). After him are Johann Peter Beaulieu (1725), Cornelis Schut (1597), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Radja Nainggolan (1988), Axel Witsel (1989), and Wim Mertens (1953).

Others born in Belgium

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Adriaan van Roomen ranks 5. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548), Victor D'Hondt (1841), Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), and Pierre Deligne (1944). After him are Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), Elias M. Stein (1931), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584).

Belgian born Mathematicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous