MATHEMATICIAN

Sal Khan

1976 - Today

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Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California. As of December 2023, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.17 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sal Khan has received more than 3,694,198 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Sal Khan is the 980th most popular mathematician (down from 883rd in 2019), the 14,254th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,939th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 3.7M

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  • 37.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sal Khan ranks 980 out of 1,004. Before him are Euphemia Haynes, Stanley Skewes, Stuart Milner-Barry, June Huh, Nathaniel Bowditch, and Victor Glushkov. After him are Joan Birman, Éva Tardos, Nikolai Durov, Martin Hairer, Bhama Srinivasan, and Daniel Lewin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Sal Khan ranks 483. Before him are Dani, Nick Swardson, Tamar Zandberg, Eva Habermann, Khadija Ismayilova, and Shelley Conn. After him are Lorne Balfe, Timur Mutsurayev, Jolanda Čeplak, Ümit Özat, Juan Alfonso Baptista, and Ky-Mani Marley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 14,254 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Lovejoy (1912), Jessica Tuck (1963), Albert Brewer (1928), Bill Hagerty (1959), Nat Pendleton (1895), and Nana Smith (1971). After him are Harold Stephen Black (1898), Graham Rogers (1990), Paul Annacone (1963), William Gilmore Simms (1806), Mariann Aalda (1948), and Stephen Gaghan (1965).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 96. Before him are Richard Schoen (1950), Mary Ellen Rudin (1924), Eric W. Weisstein (1969), Euphemia Haynes (1890), June Huh (1983), and Nathaniel Bowditch (1773). After him are Joan Birman (1927), Daniel Lewin (1970), Steven Strogatz (1959), Robert J. Lang (1961), Daniel J. Bernstein (1971), and Jennifer Tour Chayes (1956).

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