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Seki Takakazu

1642 - 1708

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Seki Takakazu (関 孝和; c. March 1642 – December 5, 1708), also known as Seki Kōwa (関 孝和), was a mathematician, samurai, and Kofu feudal officer of the early Edo period of Japan. Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics, known as wasan from c. 1870. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Seki Takakazu is the 287th most popular mathematician (down from 241st in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Japan (down from 407th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Seki Takakazu ranks 287 out of 1,004. Before him are George Atwood, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Jacopo Riccati, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, S. R. Ranganathan, and Gemma Frisius. After him are Al-Karaji, Atle Selberg, John G. Thompson, Edmund Landau, Hugo Steinhaus, and Pierre Deligne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1642, Seki Takakazu ranks 9. Before him are Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gülnuş Sultan, Andrea Pozzo, Shitao, Johann Christoph Bach, and Ihara Saikaku. After him are André Charles Boulle, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Zheng Jing, Hâfiz Osman, and Abdul-Qādir Bedil. Among people deceased in 1708, Seki Takakazu ranks 9. Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Prince George of Denmark, and Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Anne Jules de Noailles, Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seki Takakazu ranks 501 out of 6,245. Before him are Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kunisada (1786), Takeo Takahashi (1947), Mōri Terumoto (1533), and Saitō Hajime (1844). After him are Eisai (1141), Kenzō Takada (1939), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), and Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Seki Takakazu ranks 1. After him are Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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