Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 - 1716
HPI 92.00156 languages
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is most famous for his work on calculus and the binary system.
The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Germany
107 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,010 Mathematicians, 107 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 3rd most number of Mathematicians behind United Kingdom and France.
Top 10 German Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary German Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous German Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of German Mathematicians.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777 - 1855
HPI 91.44160 languagesCarl Friedrich Gauss is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, specifically in the fields of number theory and geometry. He also made contributions to astronomy, statistics, and geodesy.
#3 
Bernhard Riemann
1826 - 1866
HPI 85.32101 languagesBernhard Riemann is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, including the Riemann integral, the Riemann-Roch theorem, and the Riemann hypothesis.
#4 
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805 - 1859
HPI 80.7763 languagesPeter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who is most famous for his work in number theory. He is responsible for the first rigorous proof of the Prime Number Theorem, which states that the number of primes less than or equal to a given number is asymptotic to the form n/ln(n).
#5 
Gottlob Frege
1848 - 1925
HPI 76.8175 languagesGottlob Frege was a German mathematician and philosopher. He is most famous for his work in logic and the philosophy of language.
#6 
Emmy Noether
1882 - 1935
HPI 76.3884 languagesEmmy Noether is most famous for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. She was the first woman to be awarded a full professorship at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
#7 
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790 - 1868
HPI 75.8155 languagesAugust Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) was a German mathematician and astronomer. He is most famous for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a two-dimensional surface with only one side and one boundary.
#8 
Friedrich Bessel
1784 - 1846
HPI 75.6364 languagesFriedrich Bessel is most famous for determining the orbit of the star 61 Cygni and the distance from Earth to the Sun.
#9 
Karl Weierstrass
1815 - 1897
HPI 75.4171 languagesKarl Weierstrass is most famous for proving that every continuous function on the real line can be uniformly approximated by polynomials.
#10 
Ludolph van Ceulen
1540 - 1610
HPI 74.7942 languagesLudolph van Ceulen is most famous for calculating the value of Pi to over 31 digits.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
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