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Isaac Beeckman

1588 - 1637

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Isaac Beeckman (10 December 1588 – 19 May 1637) was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Beeckman has received more than 85,643 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Isaac Beeckman is the 324th most popular mathematician (down from 321st in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 307th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Isaac Beeckman ranks 324 out of 823. Before him are Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, Ernesto Cesàro, Theodor Kaluza, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and Jacques Charles François Sturm. After him are Pierre Alphonse Laurent, John Milnor, Sergei Sobolev, Kunihiko Kodaira, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Jean Dieudonné.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Isaac Beeckman ranks 11. Before him are Hendrick ter Brugghen, Marina Mniszech, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, and Johann Heinrich Alsted. After him are Pierre Séguier, Margherita Aldobrandini, Ole Worm, Johann von Aldringen, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Jan Janssonius. Among people deceased in 1637, Isaac Beeckman ranks 9. Before him are Christina of Lorraine, Ben Jonson, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Robert Fludd, and William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Pierre Vernier, Péter Pázmány, and Lorenzo Ruiz.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Isaac Beeckman ranks 320 out of 1,427. Before him are Mart Stam (1899), Ton Koopman (1944), Jean Malouel (1370), John Goodricke (1764), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), and Karel Doorman (1889). After him are Hendrik Casimir (1909), Mark van Bommel (1977), Jan Gies (1905), Karel Dujardin (1622), Phillip Cocu (1970), and Jan Miense Molenaer (1610).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Isaac Beeckman ranks 4. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Willem de Sitter (1872), and L. E. J. Brouwer (1881). After him are Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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