MATHEMATICIAN

Sam Loyd

1841 - 1911

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Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911) was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City. As a chess composer, he authored a number of chess problems, often with interesting themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Loyd has received more than 153,024 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Loyd is the 378th most popular mathematician (down from 262nd in 2019), the 2,977th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,170th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sam Loyd ranks 378 out of 1,004. Before him are Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, Edward Kasner, Philipp Frank, Felix Bernstein, and Hypsicles. After him are Viggo Brun, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Rudolf E. Kálmán, William Sealy Gosset, William Jones, and Elwin Bruno Christoffel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Sam Loyd ranks 36. Before him are Julius von Payer, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Giovanni Sgambati, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Eugenius Warming, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Otto von Gierke, Luigi Luzzatti, Prudente de Morais, and Charles J. Guiteau. Among people deceased in 1911, Sam Loyd ranks 34. Before him are Williamina Fleming, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Alexandre Guilmant, George Johnstone Stoney, Félix Ziem, and James Curtis Hepburn. After him are Ernst Brenner, Konrad Duden, Édouard André, John Hughlings Jackson, Piet Cronjé, and Maurice Rouvier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 2,977 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Welch (1935), Betsy Ross (1752), Bruce Campbell (1958), Karol J. Bobko (1937), GG Allin (1956), and Joe Turkel (1927). After him are Ralph Rose (1885), Akon (1973), Charles Whitman (1941), Neil Postman (1931), Jensen Ackles (1978), and Roderick MacKinnon (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 18. Before him are Paul Cohen (1934), Lloyd Shapley (1923), John Milnor (1931), John G. Thompson (1932), Stephen Smale (1930), and Edward Kasner (1878). After him are Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), and Whitfield Diffie (1944).

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