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Simon Newcomb
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Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was an American male figure associated with the United States. His recorded works include *A B C of Finance*, *Astronomy for Everybody*, *Reminiscences of an Astronomer*, *Popular Astronomy*, and *Fairyland of Geometry and Other Essays in Science*. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
MusicBrainz lists him as a person with genres including cool jazz, jazz, and swing. Open Library records 37 works under his name, while Crossref lists five works and Europeana Sparql lists one. He is referenced by 551 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 37
Top works
- a B C of Finance
- Astronomy for Everybody
- Reminiscences of an Astronomer
- Popular Astronomy
- Compendium of Spherical Astronomy with Its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed Stars
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-12-15
- Active to
- 1979-08-25
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 57
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,486x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,658x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,205x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,046x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Is the Airship Possible? That depends, first of all, on whether we are to make the requisite scientific discoveries... the construction of an aerial vehicle ... which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force.”
- “One of the most curious of these cases [geometrical paradoxers] was that of a student, I am not sure but a graduate, of the University of Virginia, who claimed that geometers were in error in assuming that a line had no thickness. He published a school geometry based on his views, which received the endorsement of a well-known New York school official and, on the basis of this, was actually endorsed, or came very near being endorsed, as a text-book hi the public schools of New York.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1835-03-12 ) March 12, 1835, Wallace, Nova Scotia , Canada
- Died
- July 11, 1909 (1909-07-11) (aged 74), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Citizenship
- American
- Alma mater
- Harvard University ( BS , 1858)
- Spouse
- Mary Caroline Hassler ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. August 4, 1863</span>"}]]}'>1863 )
- Children
- 4, including Anita and Josepha
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1890) , Bruce Medal (1898)
- Fields
- Astronomy , Mathematics
- Academic advisors
- Benjamin Peirce
- Doctoral students
- Henry Ludwell Moore
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Simon Newcomb, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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 Bachelor of Science at Harvard in 1858. He later made important contributions to timekeeping, as well as to other fields in applied mathematics, such as economics and statistics. Fluent in several languages, he also wrote and published several popular science books and a science fiction novel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simon Newcomb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.