The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Australia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 51st most number of Mathematicians behind Serbia, and Morocco.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Australian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Terence Tao (b. 1975)

With an HPI of 53.08, Terence Tao is the most famous Australian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 48 different languages on wikipedia.

Terence Chi-Shen Tao (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician, Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. Tao was born to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.

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2. John H. Coates (1945 - 2022)

With an HPI of 45.50, John H. Coates is the 2nd most famous Australian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

John Henry Coates (26 January 1945 – 9 May 2022) was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Australian mathematicians born between 1945 and 1975. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian mathematicians include Terence Tao. The most famous deceased Australian mathematicians include John H. Coates. As of April 2024, 1 new Australian mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including John H. Coates.

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