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Simon Singh

1964 - Today

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Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Singh has received more than 716,251 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Simon Singh is the 849th most popular mathematician (down from 771st in 2019), the 5,024th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,408th in 2019) and the 98th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 40.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Simon Singh ranks 849 out of 823. Before him are George Salmon, Philip Hall, Charles Hutton, Michael Aschbacher, Andrei Okounkov, and Alberto Calderón. After him are Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Christoph Gudermann, Douglas McIlroy, Christine Darden, Branko Grünbaum, and Neil Sloane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Simon Singh ranks 441. Before him are Amit Shah, Jan Kounen, Ed Boon, Fareed Zakaria, Janeane Garofalo, and Henry Maske. After him are Dot Jones, Sylvie Goulard, Herbert Fandel, Timothy Harris, Yeardley Smith, and Hisanori Shirasawa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Singh ranks 5,024 out of 7,765. Before him are Sophie Thompson (1962), Thomas Lodge (1558), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Julian Bailey (1961), George Formby (1904), and Louise Rayner (1832). After him are Erskine Childers (1870), Steve Hewitt (1971), Brian Kidd (1949), Andrew Morton (1959), Dennis Wise (1966), and Claire Williams (1976).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Simon Singh ranks 98. Before him are Richard K. Guy (1916), Frank Morley (1860), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), I. J. Good (1916), Philip Hall (1904), and Charles Hutton (1737). After him are Neil Sloane (1939), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), Timothy Gowers (1963), W. T. Tutte (1917), William Spottiswoode (1825), and Nigel Hitchin (1946).

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