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MATHEMATICIAN

Radhanath Sikdar

1813 - 1870

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Radhanath Sikdar (Bengali: রাধানাথ শিকদার; 5 October 1813 – 17 May 1870) was an Indian mathematician who is best known for calculating the height of Mount Everest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Radhanath Sikdar has received more than 264,565 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Radhanath Sikdar is the 810th most popular mathematician, the 679th most popular biography from India and the 14th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 810 out of 823. Before him are Marston Morse, Harish-Chandra, Ormond Stone, Anatoly Maltsev, Horace Lamb, and Cleve Moler. After him are Barry Mazur, Mark Kac, Alexander Aitken, Heinz Prüfer, Kenneth Appel, and Yury Osipov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 68. Before him are Gennady Nevelskoy, Timofey Granovsky, Stephen Mallory, George Alexander Macfarren, John Sedgwick, and John Rae. After him are George Peter Alexander Healy, Lot M. Morrill, and Zachariah Chandler. Among people deceased in 1870, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 59. Before him are Pascual Madoz, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Friedrich Boie, Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, Auguste Duméril, and Jules Pierre Rambur. After him are George Henry Thomas and Emma Willard.

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In India

Among people born in India, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 679 out of 1,493. Before him are Sumitra Mahajan (1943), Dawood Ibrahim (1955), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), Rakesh Roshan (1949), Pratibha Ray (1944), and R. H. Tawney (1880). After him are Salmaan Taseer (1944), Nirmala Deshpande (1929), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Sudha Murty (1950), Oswald Gracias (1944), and Amrita Singh (1958).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 14. Before him are Jai Singh II (1688), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), and Harish-Chandra (1923). After him are J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Akshay Venkatesh (1981), and Raman Parimala (1948).

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