MATHEMATICIAN

Seki Takakazu

1642 - 1708

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Seki Takakazu (関 孝和, c. March 1642 – December 5, 1708), also known as Seki Kōwa (関 孝和), was a Japanese mathematician and author of the Edo period.Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics, known as wasan. He has been described as "Japan's Newton".He created a new algebraic notation system and, motivated by astronomical computations, did work on infinitesimal calculus and Diophantine equations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seki Takakazu has received more than 162,728 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Seki Takakazu is the 241st most popular mathematician (up from 271st in 2019), the 407th most popular biography from Japan (up from 492nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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  • 160k

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  • 58.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Seki Takakazu has had the most page views in the with 77,238 views, followed by English (16,588), and Chinese (5,178). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (225.69%), Bashkir (156.67%), and Basque (113.22%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Seki Takakazu ranks 241 out of 1,004. Before him are Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, Isaac Beeckman, Farkas Bolyai, Johannes de Sacrobosco, and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. After him are Robert Recorde, John Charles Fields, Joseph Bertrand, Ibn al-Shatir, Simon Newcomb, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1642, Seki Takakazu ranks 10. Before him are Johann Christoph Bach, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shitao, André Charles Boulle, Ihara Saikaku, and Andrea Pozzo. After him are Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Zheng Jing, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, and Anne Hilarion de Tourville. Among people deceased in 1708, Seki Takakazu ranks 8. Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Prince George of Denmark, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After him are Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seki Takakazu ranks 407 out of 6,245. Before him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Kunisada (1786), Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Tetsu Katayama (1887), and Saizo Saito (1908). After him are Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Haruo Arima (null), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Emperor Ninmyō (808), Sadao Araki (1877), and Michiyo Taki (null).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Seki Takakazu ranks 1. After him are Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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