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The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Czechia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 5 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 27th most number of Mathematicians behind Sweden and Ireland.

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

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1. Leo Perutz (1882 - 1957)

With an HPI of 57.56, Leo Perutz is the most famous Czech Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine. According to the biographical note on the Arcade Publishing editions of the English translations of his novels, Leo was a mathematician who formulated an algebraic equation which is named after him; he worked as a statistician for an insurance company. He was related to the biologist Max Perutz.During the 1950s he returned occasionally to Austria, spending the summer and autumn months in the market town of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut resort region and in Vienna. He died in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl in 1957. He wrote his first novel, The Third Bullet, in 1915 while recovering from a wound sustained in the First World War. In all Perutz wrote eleven novels, which gained the admiration of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Ian Fleming, Karl Edward Wagner and Graham Greene. Wagner cited Perutz' novel The Master of the Day of Judgment as one of the thirteen best non-supernatural horror novels.

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2. Johannes Widmann (1460 - 1505)

With an HPI of 55.56, Johannes Widmann is the 2nd most famous Czech Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Johannes Widmann (c. 1460 – after 1498) was a German mathematician. The + and - symbols first appeared in print in his book Mercantile Arithmetic or Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft published in Leipzig in 1489 in reference to surpluses and deficits in business problems.Born in Eger, Bohemia, Widmann attended the University of Leipzig in the 1480s. In 1482 he earned his "Baccalaureus" (Bachelor of Art degree) and in 1485 his "Magister" (doctorate). Widman published Behende und hübsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft (German; i.e. Nimble and neat calculation in all trades), his work making use of the signs, in Leipzig in 1489. Further editions were published in Pforzheim, Hagenau, and Augsburg. Handwritten entries in a surviving collection show that after earning his "Magister" Widman announced holding lectures on e.g. calculating on the lines of a calculating board and on algebra. There is evidence that the lecture on algebra actually took place, making it the first known university lecture on this topic.Around 1495 Widmann published the Latin writings Algorithmus integrorum cum probis annexis, Algorithmus linealis, Algorithmus minutiarum phisicarum, Algorithmus minutiarum vulgarium, Regula falsi apud philosophantes augmenti et decrementi appellata und Tractatus proportionum plusquam aureus. He died in Leipzig. When Adam Ries was in Erfurt between 1518 and 1522 he got to know Widmann's algebra lecture script (today in the Saxon State Library) wherefrom he took examples for his own writings.

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3. Johann Radon (1887 - 1956)

With an HPI of 49.71, Johann Radon is the 3rd most famous Czech Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna).

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4. Olga Taussky-Todd (1906 - 1995)

With an HPI of 48.22, Olga Taussky-Todd is the 4th most famous Czech Mathematician.  Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.

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5. Eduard Čech (1893 - 1960)

With an HPI of 48.10, Eduard Čech is the 5th most famous Czech Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Eduard Čech (Czech: [ˈɛduart ˈtʃɛx]; 29 June 1893 – 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. He was the first to publish a proof of Tychonoff's theorem in 1937.

Pantheon has 5 people classified as mathematicians born between 1460 and 1906. Of these 5, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Leo Perutz, Johannes Widmann, and Johann Radon. As of April 2022, 1 new mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Johann Radon.

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