The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Finland
This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 5 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 30th most number of Mathematicians behind Ireland and Croatia.
Top 5 Finnish Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Finnish Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Lars Ahlfors
1907 - 1996
HPI 69.0545 langsFinnish mathematician (1907-1996)
- #2
Rolf Nevanlinna
1895 - 1980
HPI 62.2829 langsFinnish mathematician (1895–1980) known for his research in complex analysis
- #3
Anders Johan Lexell
1740 - 1784
HPI 62.2426 langsRussian mathematician (1740-1784)
- #4
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
1870 - 1946
HPI 59.4021 langsFinnish mathematician who made contributions in real/complex analysis and topology (1870–1946)
- #5
Hjalmar Mellin
1854 - 1933
HPI 52.6215 langsFinnish mathematician (1854-1933)
Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
