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Simon Newcomb

1835 - 1909

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Simon Newcomb (Wallace, Canada, 12 maart 1835 - Washington D.C., 11 juli 1909) was een Canadees-Amerikaans astronoom en wiskundige. Als autodidact maakte hij zich astronomie en wiskunde eigen. In 1858 studeerde hij af aan de Harvard universiteit. In 1881 viel hem op dat in logaritmetabellen de eerste bladzijden meer gebruikt waren dan de laatste. Lees meer op Wikipedia

Zijn biografie is beschikbaar in 41 verschillende talen op Wikipedia. Simon Newcomb staat op plaats 300 onder de meest populaire wiskundige (gedaald van plaats 246 in 2024), plaats 107 onder de meest populaire biografieën uit Canada (gedaald van plaats 89 in 2019) en op plaats 2 onder de populairste wiskundige uit Canada.

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Among Wiskundiges

Among wiskundiges, Simon Newcomb ranks 300 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre Deligne, Adolf Hurwitz, Jesse Douglas, Shing-Tung Yau, Abraham Zacuto, and Oronce Finé. After him are Lorenzo Mascheroni, Yakov Sinai, Robert Axelrod, Michael Stifel, Hillel Furstenberg, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Simon Newcomb ranks 33. Before him are Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Alexandrine Tinné, and Shoqan Walikhanov. After him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Émile Combes. Among people deceased in 1909, Simon Newcomb ranks 26. Before him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Arnold Janssen, Red Cloud, Paul Gachet, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, and Oliver Otis Howard. After him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Renée Vivien, Naftali Herz Imber, and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Simon Newcomb ranks 107 out of NaN. Before him are Denis Villeneuve (1967), G. A. Cohen (1941), Louis Slotin (1910), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), James Randi (1928), and Michael Ironside (1950). After him are Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Graham Greene (1952), Justin Bieber (1994), and Norma Shearer (1902).

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Among Wiskundiges In Canada

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

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