


The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonians Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 3 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 35th most number of Mathematicians behind Israel and Spain.
Top 3 Estonian Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonians Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Estonians Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Erhard Schmidt
1876 - 1959
HPI 61.3226 langsGerman mathematician (1876–1959)
- #2

Carl Gustav Axel Harnack
1851 - 1888
HPI 56.4219 langsBaltic German mathematician (1851–1888)
- #3

Hellmuth Kneser
1898 - 1973
HPI 54.4615 langsGerman mathematician (1898–1973)
Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
