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Seymour Papert

1928 - 2016

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Seymour Aubrey Papert (; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seymour Papert has received more than 549,510 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Seymour Papert is the 233rd most popular mathematician (down from 223rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular South African Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Seymour Papert ranks 233 out of 1,004. Before him are L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Élie Cartan, Piet Hein, and Joseph Petzval. After him are Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, Isaac Beeckman, Farkas Bolyai, and Johannes de Sacrobosco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Seymour Papert ranks 104. Before him are Vladimir Beara, Arman, James Earl Ray, Ida Haendel, Georgy Dobrovolsky, and Sol LeWitt. After him are Torben Ulrich, Daniel Nathans, Fats Domino, Takeshi Inoue, Malcolm Glazer, and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy. Among people deceased in 2016, Seymour Papert ranks 92. Before him are Edgar Mitchell, Bata Živojinović, Kenny Baker, Meir Dagan, Yasuo Takamori, and David Hamilton. After him are André Courrèges, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Paul Elvstrøm, Andrei Karlov, Edward Albee, and Anisa Makhlouf.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Seymour Papert ranks 29 out of 454. Before him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Steve Biko (1946), Glynis Johns (1923), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), and Basil Rathbone (1892). After him are Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), and Arnold Vosloo (1962).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In South Africa

Among mathematicians born in South Africa, Seymour Papert ranks 1. After him are Claude Chevalley (1909), Richard Borcherds (1959), Peter Sarnak (1953), and Stanley Skewes (1899).

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