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The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Belarus

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This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 5 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 28th most number of Mathematicians behind Ireland and Czechia.

Top 5

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

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1. Oscar Zariski (1899 - 1986)

With an HPI of 52.16, Oscar Zariski is the most famous Belarusian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Oscar Zariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.

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2. Issai Schur (1875 - 1941)

With an HPI of 50.68, Issai Schur is the 2nd most famous Belarusian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Issai Schur (10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941) was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at the University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer in 1903 and, after a stay at the University of Bonn, professor in 1919. As a student of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, he worked on group representations (the subject with which he is most closely associated), but also in combinatorics and number theory and even theoretical physics. He is perhaps best known today for his result on the existence of the Schur decomposition and for his work on group representations (Schur's lemma). Schur published under the name of both I. Schur, and J. Schur, the latter especially in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. This has led to some confusion.

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3. Sofya Yanovskaya (1896 - 1966)

With an HPI of 47.19, Sofya Yanovskaya is the 3rd most famous Belarusian Mathematician.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya (also Janovskaja; Russian: Софи́я Алекса́ндровна Яно́вская; 31 January 1896 – 24 October 1966) was a Soviet mathematician and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. She is best known for her efforts in restoring the research of mathematical logic in the Soviet Union and publishing and editing the mathematical works of Karl Marx.

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4. Lev Schnirelmann (1905 - 1938)

With an HPI of 47.11, Lev Schnirelmann is the 4th most famous Belarusian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man; Лев Ге́нрихович Шнирельма́н; 2 January 1905 – 24 September 1938) was a Soviet mathematician who worked on number theory, topology and differential geometry.

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5. Boris Galerkin (1871 - 1945)

With an HPI of 46.05, Boris Galerkin is the 5th most famous Belarusian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin (Russian: Бори́с Григо́рьевич Галёркин, surname more accurately romanized as Galyorkin; 4 March [O.S. 20 February] 1871–12 July 1945) was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer.

Pantheon has 5 people classified as mathematicians born between 1871 and 1905. Of these 5, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Oscar Zariski, Issai Schur, and Sofya Yanovskaya.

Deceased Mathematicians

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