Simon Newcomb | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Simon Newcomb


00:00:26 1 Biography
00:00:35 1.1 Early life
00:03:25 1.2 Peirce family
00:04:19 1.3 Career in astronomy
00:05:47 1.4 Director of the Nautical Almanac Office
00:06:43 1.5 Personal life
00:08:11 2 Work
00:08:20 2.1 Speed of light
00:09:23 2.2 Benford's law
00:09:56 2.3 Chandler wobble
00:10:33 2.4 Other work
00:11:24 2.5 On the state of astronomy
00:12:06 2.6 On the impossibility of a flying machine
00:14:40 2.7 Psychical research
00:15:17 3 Awards and honours
00:16:34 4 Legacy
00:17:31 5 Bibliography



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Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician and autodidactic polymath, who was Professor of Mathematics in the U.S. Navy and at Johns Hopkins.Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as other fields in applied mathematics such as economics and statistics in addition to writing a science fiction novel.