MATHEMATICIAN

Simon Newcomb

1835 - 1909

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Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching. Though Newcomb had little conventional schooling, he completed a B.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Newcomb has received more than 345,110 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Simon Newcomb is the 246th most popular mathematician (up from 247th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Canada (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Simon Newcomb ranks 246 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Seki Takakazu, Robert Recorde, John Charles Fields, Joseph Bertrand, and Ibn al-Shatir. After him are Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Émile Picard, Edmund Landau, Jabir ibn Aflah, Jacopo Riccati, and Édouard Roche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Simon Newcomb ranks 31. Before him are Hijikata Toshizō, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, Elisha Gray, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Alexander Agassiz. After him are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Matsukata Masayoshi, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Alexandrine Tinné, Tomás Estrada Palma, and Christian Otto Mohr. Among people deceased in 1909, Simon Newcomb ranks 27. Before him are Paul Gachet, Abdul Karim, Princess Marie of Orléans, Naftali Herz Imber, Arnold Janssen, and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Ludwig Gumplowicz, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Caran d'Ache, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Karl Krumbacher, and Count Kasimir Felix Badeni.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Simon Newcomb ranks 89 out of 1,622. Before him are Shannon Tweed (1957), Avril Lavigne (1984), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), John Charles Fields (1863), Victor Garber (1949), and Martin Short (1950). After him are Robbie Robertson (1943), Michael Ironside (1950), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Norman Bethune (1890), and Jack L. Warner (1892).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Canada

Among mathematicians born in Canada, Simon Newcomb ranks 2. Before him are John Charles Fields (1863). After him are Albert W. Tucker (1905), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Edward Routh (1831), Robert Langlands (1936), William Kahan (1933), James Arthur (1944), Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and Manjul Bhargava (1974).

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