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Robert Simson

1687 - 1768

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Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Simson has received more than 42,618 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Simson is the 629th most popular mathematician (up from 630th in 2019), the 2,919th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,072nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Robert Simson ranks 629 out of 1,004. Before him are Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Georg Mohr, Robert Axelrod, Aleksey Krylov, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and John Pell. After him are Elias M. Stein, Alexander Gelfond, Ingrid Daubechies, Hilda Geiringer, Joseph Diez Gergonne, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Robert Simson ranks 11. Before him are Giambattista Pittoni, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, and Nicolaus I Bernoulli. After him is William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1768, Robert Simson ranks 16. Before him are Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, François de Cuvilliés, Michel Blavet, and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin. After him are Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, Eggert Ólafsson, and George Hadley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Simson ranks 2,919 out of 8,785. Before him are Fay Weldon (1931), Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868), John Pell (1611), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christina Pickles (1935), and Maria Edgeworth (1768). After him are Barry Morse (1918), Graham Sutherland (1903), John Byron (1723), Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), Ceolwulf of Wessex (600), and Paul Weller (1958).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Simson ranks 62. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), and John Pell (1611). After him are David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), Ian Stewart (1945), and John Cairncross (1913).

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