1928 - 2016
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 516,118 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Seymour Papert is the 223rd most popular mathematician (down from 211th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular South African Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Seymour Papert ranks 223 out of 823. Before him are Hugo Steinhaus, Menaechmus, John Charles Fields, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. After him are Lloyd Shapley, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Thomas Abbt, L. E. J. Brouwer, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Anatoly Fomenko.
1887 - 1972
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 217
375 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 218
1863 - 1932
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 219
1602 - 1675
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 220
1909 - 1992
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 221
1849 - 1917
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 222
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 223
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 224
1236 - 1311
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 225
1738 - 1766
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 226
1881 - 1966
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 227
1896 - 1980
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 228
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 229
Among people born in 1928, Seymour Papert ranks 102. Before him are Robert Sheckley, Sol LeWitt, Arman, Christa Ludwig, Edward Albee, and Joe Jackson. After him are Bernard Buffet, Pierre Mauroy, Eunice Gayson, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, John Stewart Bell, and Djivan Gasparyan. Among people deceased in 2016, Seymour Papert ranks 85. Before him are Chyna, Yasuo Takamori, Thomas Schelling, David Hamilton, Corry Brokken, and Edward Albee. After him are Tony Burton, Glenn Frey, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Ashraf Pahlavi, Lloyd Shapley, and Michael Massee.
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 96
1928 - 2007
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 97
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 98
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 99
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 100
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 101
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 102
1928 - 1999
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 103
1928 - 2013
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 104
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 105
1928 - 2009
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 106
1928 - 1990
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 107
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 108
1969 - 2016
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 79
1934 - 2016
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 80
1921 - 2016
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 81
1933 - 2016
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 82
1932 - 2016
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 83
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 84
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 85
1937 - 2016
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 86
1948 - 2016
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 87
1926 - 2016
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 88
1919 - 2016
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 89
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 90
1952 - 2016
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 91
Among people born in South Africa, Seymour Papert ranks 28 out of 374. Before him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Sydney Brenner (1927), Michael Levitt (1947), Steve Biko (1946), Jan Smuts (1870), and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936). After him are D. F. Malan (1874), Peter Abrahams (1919), Abba Eban (1915), Basil Rathbone (1892), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), and Kevin Carter (1960).
1761 - 1836
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 22
1927 - 2019
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 23
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 24
1946 - 1977
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 25
1870 - 1950
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 26
1936 - 2018
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 27
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 28
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 29
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 31
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 32
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 33
1960 - 1994
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 34
Among mathematicians born in South Africa, Seymour Papert ranks 1. After him are Claude Chevalley (1909), Richard Borcherds (1959), and Peter Sarnak (1953).
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 1
1909 - 1984
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 2
1959 - Present
HPI: 41.71
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 38.04
Rank: 4