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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 58,800 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Anders Johan Lexell is the 502nd most popular mathematician (down from 467th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Finland (down from 121st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 502 out of 1,004. Before him are Theon of Smyrna, John Playfair, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Johann Benedict Listing, John Hadley, and Geminus. After him are Jean Frédéric Frenet, Gerd Faltings, Louis Bachelier, Charles Julien Brianchon, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Hillel Furstenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 23. Before him are Matthias Claudius, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Johan Tobias Sergel, Juan Ignacio Molina, and J. F. Oberlin. After him are Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Johan Andreas Murray, Samuel Arnold, John Sullivan, Ivan Lepyokhin, and William Paca. Among people deceased in 1784, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 13. Before him are Junípero Serra, Torbern Bergman, Otto Friedrich Müller, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Abraham Trembley, and César-François Cassini de Thury. After him are Allan Ramsay, Jean-François Séguier, and Caesar Rodney.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Anders Johan Lexell ranks 138 out of 751. Before him are Gunnar Höckert (1910), Aimo Lahti (1896), Elias Katz (1901), Selim Palmgren (1878), Klaus Fleming (1535), and Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759). After him are Hugo Österman (1892), Juha Sipilä (1961), Antti Hyvärinen (1932), Magnus Enckell (1870), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), and Ville Valo (1976).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Finland

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), and Hjalmar Mellin (1854).

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