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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 38,759 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Simson is the 633rd most popular mathematician (down from 574th in 2019), the 3,080th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,659th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Robert Simson ranks 633 out of 823. Before him are Elias M. Stein, Georg Stiernhielm, Charles Dupin, Johann Benedict Listing, Alfréd Haar, and Eduard Čech. After him are Carl Neumann, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Francesco Faà di Bruno, Thoralf Skolem, Claude Chevalley, and Shigefumi Mori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Robert Simson ranks 11. Before him are Balthasar Neumann, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Nicolaus I Bernoulli. After him is William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1768, Robert Simson ranks 18. Before him are Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, François de Cuvilliés, Michel Blavet, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, and Princess Louisa of Great Britain. After him are Eggert Ólafsson and George Hadley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Simson ranks 3,080 out of 7,765. Before him are Andrew Marvell (1621), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Anthony Hope (1863), John McDouall Stuart (1815), Carey Mulligan (1985), and C. P. Snow (1905). After him are Peter Grant (1935), David Stirling (1915), Richard de Bury (1287), John McVie (1945), John Hartley (1849), and Edwin Flack (1873).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Simson ranks 69. Before him are John Lennox (1943), Joseph Raphson (1648), John Playfair (1748), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Thomas Digges (1546), and James Ivory (1765). After him are Paul Bernays (1888), David Gregory (1659), Max Newman (1897), Lady Byron (1792), Peter Tait (1831), and Annie S. D. Maunder (1868).

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