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Benjamin Robins

1707 - 1751

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Benjamin Robins (1707 – 29 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer. He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early enthusiast for rifled gun barrels, and his work had substantive influence on the development of artillery during the latter half of the eighteenth century – and directly stimulated the teaching of calculus in military academies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Robins has received more than 56,920 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Robins is the 740th most popular mathematician (down from 687th in 2019), the 3,847th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,571st in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Benjamin Robins ranks 740 out of 823Before him are Marina Ratner, Laurent Lafforgue, Charles Fefferman, Francesco Brioschi, Leo Königsberger, and Ludwig Schläfli. After him are William Feller, Dennis Sullivan, Simon Donaldson, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Hassler Whitney, and Vladimir Levenshtein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Benjamin Robins ranks 18Before him are Charles Wesley, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Johannes Burman, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, and Johann Amman. After him is Stephen Hopkins. Among people deceased in 1751, Benjamin Robins ranks 22Before him are János Pálffy, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, John Machin, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Henri François d'Aguesseau, and George Graham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Robins ranks 3,847 out of 7,765Before him are Eric Stewart (1945), John Aitken (1839), Prunella Scales (1932), Richard J. Evans (1947), Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885), and Jim Capaldi (1944). After him are Sid Kimpton (1887), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), Peter Hook (1956), Patrick Moore (1923), Alma Cogan (1932), and Virginia Wade (1945).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Robins ranks 82Before him are William Whiston (1667), William Shanks (1812), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Douglas Hartree (1897), E. T. Whittaker (1873), and William Henry Young (1863). After him are Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), and Richard Taylor (1962).