With 823 biographies, Mathematicians are the 20th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Racing Drivers, Noblemen, and Biologists.
Pantheon has 905 people classified as mathematicians born between 1680 BC and 1988. Of these 905, 127 (14.03%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mathematicians include Grigori Perelman, Andrew Wiles, and Robert Aumann. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. As of April 2022, 86 new mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Émilie du Châtelet, Siméon Denis Poisson, and George Pólya.
1966 - Present
HPI: 63.68
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.70
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.89
1926 - Present
HPI: 60.20
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.26
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.61
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.40
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.16
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.37
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.30
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
1931 - Present
HPI: 54.75
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
1623 - 1662
HPI: 88.71
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
780 - 850
HPI: 85.05
1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
1048 - 1131
HPI: 83.59
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
1887 - 1985
HPI: 60.45
786 - 833
HPI: 53.55
280 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 52.40
1712 - 1757
HPI: 52.19
980 - 1037
HPI: 52.01
800 - 900
HPI: 51.97
HPI: 50.83
835 - 912
HPI: 50.56
1790 - 1864
HPI: 50.04
1887 - 1956
HPI: 49.71
Most mathematicians were born in United Kingdom (109), France (106), and Germany (93). By city, the most common birth places were Paris (26), Budapest (17), and Moscow (16).The most common death places of mathematicians were United States (123), France (107), and United Kingdom (91). By city, these were Paris (65), Moscow (29), and Cambridge (21).
The earliest biographies classified as mathematicians in Pantheon are Meton of Athens, Baudhayana sutras, and Ahmes. The concentration of mathematicians was largest during the Newspaper Era, which lasted from 1700 to 1899. Some birth or death locations for earlier mathematicians are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
Mathematicians are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Physicists, Astronomers, Chemists, and Physicians.