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Isaac Barrow

1631 - 1677

Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Barrow has received more than 241,121 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Isaac Barrow is the 95th most popular mathematician (up from 100th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 434th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Mathematician.

Isaac Barrow was an English mathematician and physicist who is most famous for his work on calculus.

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Among mathematicians, Isaac Barrow ranks 95 out of 828. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Augustus De Morgan, Alexander Friedmann, Paul Erdős, and Anthemius of Tralles. After him are János Bolyai, Alexander Grothendieck, Josef Stefan, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Leopold Kronecker, and Stefan Banach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1631, Isaac Barrow ranks 1. After him are Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, François Vatel, John Dryden, Abraham Brueghel, Pierre Beauchamp, Al-Rashid of Morocco, Anne Conway, and Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp. Among people deceased in 1677, Isaac Barrow ranks 3. Before him are Baruch Spinoza and Jan van Riebeeck. After him are Angelus Silesius, Barbara Strozzi, Wenceslaus Hollar, Robert Cambert, Aert van der Neer, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, James Harrington, and William Louis, Duke of Württemberg.

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Isaac Barrow
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 1
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
1631 - 1660
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 2
François Vatel
1631 - 1671
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 3
John Dryden
1631 - 1700
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 4
Abraham Brueghel
1631 - 1690
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 5
Pierre Beauchamp
1631 - 1705
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 6
Al-Rashid of Morocco
1631 - 1672
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 7
Anne Conway
1631 - 1679
HPI: 62.87
Rank: 8
Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp
1631 - 1719
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 9