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Jai Singh II

1688 - 1743

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Sawai Jai Singh II (3 November 1688 – 21 September 1743), was the 29th Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber, who later founded the fortified city of Jaipur and made it his capital. He became the ruler of Amber at the age of 11, after the death of his father, Mirza Raja Bishan Singh, on 31 December 1699.Initially, Raja Jai Singh served as a vassal of the Mughal Empire. He was given the title of "Sawai" by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb before the siege of Khelna Fort in Deccan."Sawai" means one and a quarter times superior to his contemporaries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jai Singh II has received more than 897,810 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jai Singh II is the 519th most popular mathematician (up from 548th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from India (up from 421st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Over the past year Jai Singh II has had the most page views in the with 63,690 views, followed by Hindi (54,934), and Russian (3,235). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (209.36%), Indonesian (70.72%), and Slovenian (70.14%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jai Singh II ranks 519 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Bondi, Peter Lax, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Solomon Lefschetz, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, and Polyaenus of Lampsacus. After him are Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Carl Neumann, Julia Robinson, Martin Ohm, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, and Eugenio Calabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, Jai Singh II ranks 21. Before him are Antonio Corradini, François Lemoyne, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Johann Friedrich Fasch. After him are Willem 's Gravesande, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Ferdinand Brokoff, and Mikhail Zemtsov. Among people deceased in 1743, Jai Singh II ranks 12. Before him are Nicolas Lancret, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Rafael Casanova, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, and Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz. After him are Augustine Washington, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Ogata Kenzan, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Mikhail Zemtsov, and John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jai Singh II ranks 420 out of 1,861. Before him are Idries Shah (1924), Man Singh I (1550), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Prince Vijaya (-543), Jagat Gosain (1573), and Sam Manekshaw (1914). After him are Ibn Warraq (1946), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Satya Nadella (1967), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Jai Singh II ranks 8. Before him are Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), Augustus De Morgan (1806), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), and Bhāskara I (600). After him are D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Harish-Chandra (1923), Kātyāyana (-200), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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