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Anders Johan Lexell

1740 - 1784

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Anders Johan Lexell (24 December 1740 – 11 December [O.S. 30 November] 1784) was a Finnish-Swedish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Imperial Russia, where he was known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel (Андрей Иванович Лексель). Lexell made important discoveries in polygonometry and celestial mechanics; the latter led to a comet named in his honour. La Grande Encyclopédie states that he was the prominent mathematician of his time who contributed to spherical trigonometry with new and interesting solutions, which he took as a basis for his research of comet and planet motion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Johan Lexell has received more than 53,006 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Anders Johan Lexell is the 468th most popular mathematician (down from 454th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Finland (down from 115th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 468 out of 823Before him are Whitfield Diffie, Adam Ries, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Hypsicles, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, and Agner Krarup Erlang. After him are Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Pavel Urysohn, Stanisław Leśniewski, George David Birkhoff, Edward Arthur Milne, and Eric Temple Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 20Before him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Claudius, and Juan Ignacio Molina. After him are John Latham, Johan Tobias Sergel, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Johan Andreas Murray, Samuel Arnold, and Ivan Lepyokhin. Among people deceased in 1784, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 11Before him are Phillis Wheatley, Giovanni Battista Martini, Torbern Bergman, Junípero Serra, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, and César-François Cassini de Thury. After him are Abraham Trembley, Otto Friedrich Müller, Allan Ramsay, and Caesar Rodney.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 121 out of 642Before him are Anders Chydenius (1729), Aimo Lahti (1896), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Antti Rinne (1962), Harri Holkeri (1937), and Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759). After him are Jörn Donner (1933), Valtteri Bottas (1989), Erik Heinrichs (1890), Paavo Talvela (1897), Timo Salonen (1951), and Selim Palmgren (1878).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Finland

Among mathematicians born in Finland, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 3Before him are Lars Ahlfors (1907) and Rolf Nevanlinna (1895). After him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870).