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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 262,544 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Radhanath Sikdar is the 851st most popular mathematician (down from 807th in 2019), the 735th most popular biography from India (down from 675th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Over the past year Radhanath Sikdar has had the most page views in the with 28,144 views, followed by Bengali (4,545), and Russian (1,609). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Occitan (290.79%), Haitian (115.46%), and Catalan (86.88%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 851 out of 1,004. Before him are John H. Coates, Marston Morse, I. J. Good, Dmitri Anosov, Shinichi Mochizuki, and Corrado Segre. After him are Don Zagier, Richard Garfield, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Juliusz Schauder, Yuri Linnik, and Evelyn Boyd Granville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 75. Before him are Theodor Kotschy, Gaëtan de Rochebouët, Narciso Campero, Timofey Granovsky, Isaac Pitman, and Stephen Mallory. After him are Henry Ward Beecher, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, John Rae, John Sedgwick, George Alexander Macfarren, and David Dixon Porter. Among people deceased in 1870, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 64. Before him are Auguste Duméril, Umihana Čuvidina, Pascual Madoz, Jules Pierre Rambur, John P. Kennedy, and Thomas Campbell Eyton. After him are Charles Joseph Minard, Emma Willard, George Henry Thomas, and William Gilmore Simms.

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In India

Among people born in India, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 735 out of 1,861. Before him are Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), Sharman Joshi (1979), Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Anna Chandy (1905), and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905). After him are Murad Bakhsh (1624), Raja Ramanna (1925), Bakht Khan (1797), Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923), Suniel Shetty (1961), and Divya Bharti (1974).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Radhanath Sikdar ranks 15. Before him are D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Harish-Chandra (1923), Kātyāyana (-200), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940). After him are Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Raman Parimala (1948), and Akshay Venkatesh (1981).

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