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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 3,518,113 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Sal Khan is the 886th most popular mathematician (down from 810th in 2019), the 12,969th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,963rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 36.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sal Khan ranks 886 out of 823. Before him are Richard Schoen, Alessio Figalli, Alexander Beilinson, Martin Hairer, Dusa McDuff, and Stuart Milner-Barry. After him are Eric W. Weisstein, Harald Helfgott, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Victor Glushkov, Maryna Viazovska, and Steven Strogatz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Sal Khan ranks 432. Before him are Neil Jackson, Robert Biedroń, Vic Darchinyan, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Francisco Rufete, and Bernardo Corradi. After him are Fabio Liverani, Eion Bailey, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Chiara Siracusa, Judith Rakers, and Sean Maguire.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 12,969 out of 18,182. Before him are Joey Lauren Adams (1968), Frank Mir (1979), Alexa Bliss (1991), Nicholas Gilman (1755), Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865), and Richard Speight Jr. (1969). After him are Paul Frees (1920), Ayda Field (1979), Eric W. Weisstein (1969), Jane Rosenthal (1956), Mike Barrett (1943), and Johnny Whitworth (1975).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 83. Before him are James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Bill Gosper (1943), Mary Ellen Rudin (1924), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Adele Goldstine (1920), and Richard Schoen (1950). After him are Eric W. Weisstein (1969), Steven Strogatz (1959), Euphemia Haynes (1890), Robert J. Lang (1961), Daniel J. Bernstein (1971), and Noam Elkies (1966).

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