MATHEMATICIAN

Sam Loyd

1841 - 1911

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Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911) was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City. As a chess composer, he authored a number of chess problems, often with interesting themes. At his peak, Loyd was one of the best chess players in the US, and he was ranked 15th in the world, according to chessmetrics.com. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Loyd is the 454th most popular mathematician (down from 378th in 2019), the 3,813th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,977th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sam Loyd ranks 454 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Bondi, Goro Shimura, Yves Meyer, Gerd Faltings, Erhard Schmidt, and Yutaka Taniyama. After him are William Jones, Enrico Betti, Mary Cartwright, Vladimir Smirnov, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Adriaan van Roomen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Sam Loyd ranks 49. Before him are Józef Brandt, Oreste Baratieri, Luigi Luzzatti, Elfrida Andrée, Philipp Spitta, and Marie Alfred Cornu. After him are Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Wilfrid Laurier, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Giovanni Sgambati, Catulle Mendès, and Vasily Klyuchevsky. Among people deceased in 1911, Sam Loyd ranks 42. Before him are James Curtis Hepburn, Sister Nivedita, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Félix Ziem, Georg Hilmar, and Christian Bohr. After him are Édouard André, Piet Cronjé, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Konrad Duden, John Hughlings Jackson, and Felix Mottl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 3,813 out of 20,380. Before him are Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Jim Bausch (1906), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), and Michael Buffer (1944). After him are Robert Gates (1943), Richard Estes (1932), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), Sung Kang (1972), Jack Johnson (1878), and Cherry Jones (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 28. Before him are John Milnor (1931), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Sal Khan (1976), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), and William Thurston (1946). After him are James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Richard Hamming (1915), Dennis Sullivan (1941), and George David Birkhoff (1884).

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