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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 61,416 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benjamin Robins is the 765th most popular mathematician (down from 737th in 2019), the 3,759th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,839th in 2019) and the 78th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Benjamin Robins ranks 765 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Faulhaber, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sulochana Gadgil, Jacques-Louis Lions, Rudy Rucker, and Carl Størmer. After him are William Henry Young, Giuseppe Veronese, Yitang Zhang, Leonida Tonelli, Gilbert Strang, and Walter Rudin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Benjamin Robins ranks 18. Before him are Charles Wesley, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Johannes Burman, Johann Amman, and Stephen Hopkins. After him is Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1751, Benjamin Robins ranks 24. Before him are János Pálffy, John Machin, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, George Graham, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, and Henri François d'Aguesseau. After him is Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Robins ranks 3,759 out of 8,785. Before him are John Neville Keynes (1852), William Davenant (1606), Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), Peter Lorimer (1946), and Ashley Young (1985). After him are William Henry Young (1863), Herbert Marshall (1890), Victor d'Arcy (1887), Jim Bellamy (1881), Rupert Friend (1981), and Jony Ive (1967).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Robins ranks 78. Before him are Lady Byron (1792), James Ivory (1765), David Cox (1924), William Hopkins (1793), Charles Hutton (1737), and Douglas Hartree (1897). After him are William Henry Young (1863), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Frank Morley (1860), and Mary Everest Boole (1832).

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