1740 - 1784
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, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 468 out of 823. Before 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.
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 462
1492 - 1559
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 463
1944 - 2019
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 464
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 465
1584 - 1667
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 466
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 467
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 468
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 469
1898 - 1924
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 470
1886 - 1939
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 471
1884 - 1944
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 472
1896 - 1950
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 473
1883 - 1960
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 474
Among people born in 1740, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 20. Before 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 11. Before 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.
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 14
1740 - 1793
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 15
1740 - 1795
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 16
1740 - 1817
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 17
1740 - 1815
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 18
1740 - 1829
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 19
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 20
1740 - 1837
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 21
1740 - 1814
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 22
1740 - 1786
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 23
1740 - 1791
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 24
1740 - 1802
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 25
1740 - 1802
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 26
1753 - 1784
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 5
1706 - 1784
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 6
1735 - 1784
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 7
1713 - 1784
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 8
1714 - 1784
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 9
1714 - 1784
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 10
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 11
1710 - 1784
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 12
1730 - 1784
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 13
1713 - 1784
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 14
1728 - 1784
HPI: 39.60
Rank: 15
Among people born in Finland, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 121 out of 642. Before 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).
1729 - 1803
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 115
1896 - 1970
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 116
1907 - 1969
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 117
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 118
1937 - 2011
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 119
1759 - 1815
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 120
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 121
1933 - 2020
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 122
1989 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 123
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 124
1897 - 1973
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 125
1951 - Present
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 126
1878 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 127
Among mathematicians born in Finland, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 3. Before him are Lars Ahlfors (1907) and Rolf Nevanlinna (1895). After him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870).
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 1
1895 - 1980
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 2
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3
1870 - 1946
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 4