The Most Famous

Mathematicians from Estonia

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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. #1
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    Erhard Schmidt

    1876 - 1959

    HPI 61.3226 langs

    German mathematician (1876–1959)

  2. #2
    Photo of Carl Gustav Axel Harnack

    Carl Gustav Axel Harnack

    1851 - 1888

    HPI 56.4219 langs

    Baltic German mathematician (1851–1888)

  3. #3
    Photo of Hellmuth Kneser

    Hellmuth Kneser

    1898 - 1973

    HPI 54.4615 langs

    German 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.

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