With 828 biographies, Mathematicians are the 20th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Racing Drivers, Biologists, and Noblemen.
Pantheon has 826 people classified as mathematicians born between 500 BC and 1988. Of these 826, 125 (15.13%) 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 October 2020, 82 new mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Ostilio Ricci, Sergei Adian, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach.
1966 - Present
HPI: 71.40
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.13
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.92
1926 - Present
HPI: 69.40
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.00
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.30
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.13
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.76
1931 - Present
HPI: 65.08
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.01
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.84
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.72
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 93.93
1623 - 1662
HPI: 90.70
1777 - 1855
HPI: 89.18
1646 - 1716
HPI: 88.60
1707 - 1783
HPI: 87.94
1048 - 1131
HPI: 87.50
780 - 850
HPI: 87.34
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 87.03
350 - 415
HPI: 85.49
1872 - 1970
HPI: 84.90
1601 - 1665
HPI: 84.48
1170 - 1240
HPI: 84.01
1540 - 1603
HPI: 65.41
1931 - Present
HPI: 65.08
1800 - 1834
HPI: 63.68
1792 - 1872
HPI: 63.47
1580 - 1637
HPI: 63.38
1887 - 1974
HPI: 63.33
1774 - 1825
HPI: 63.30
945 - 1020
HPI: 63.20
940 - 1000
HPI: 62.91
1975 - Present
HPI: 62.75
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.57
1913 - 1995
HPI: 61.49
Most mathematicians were born in France (104), United Kingdom (101), and Germany (86). By city, the most common birth places were Paris (25), Budapest (16), and Moscow (14).The most common death places of mathematicians were United States (108), France (104), and United Kingdom (83). By city, these were Paris (65), Moscow (26), and Cambridge (20).
The earliest biographies classified as mathematicians in Pantheon are Philolaus, Hippocrates of Chios, and Meton of Athens. 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.