The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 2 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 40th most number of Mathematicians behind Afghanistan and Slovakia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Estonian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Erhard Schmidt (1876 - 1959)
With an HPI of 48.93, Erhard Schmidt is the most famous Estonian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia).
2. Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851 - 1888)
With an HPI of 45.61, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack is the 2nd most famous Estonian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1851, Dorpat (now Tartu) – 3 April 1888, Dresden) was a Baltic German mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as mathematicians born between 1851 and 1876. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Erhard Schmidt and Carl Gustav Axel Harnack.
