MATHEMATICIANS from Israel

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Israeli Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Eutocius of Ascalon (480 - 600)

With an HPI of 56.64, Eutocius of Ascalon is the most famous Israeli Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.

Eutocius of Ascalon (; Greek: Εὐτόκιος ὁ Ἀσκαλωνίτης; c. 480s – c. 520s) was a Greek mathematician who wrote commentaries on several Archimedean treatises and on the Apollonian Conics.

2. Saharon Shelah (b. 1945)

With an HPI of 48.13, Saharon Shelah is the 2nd most famous Israeli Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Saharon Shelah (שַׂהֲרֹן שֶׁלַח‎ Śahăron Šelaḥ, Hebrew pronunciation: [sähäʁo̞n ʃe̞läχ]; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey.

3. Avi Wigderson (b. 1956)

With an HPI of 44.14, Avi Wigderson is the 3rd most famous Israeli Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.

4. Elon Lindenstrauss (b. 1970)

With an HPI of 42.24, Elon Lindenstrauss is the 4th most famous Israeli Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew: אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed as a Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University. In 2024 he was appointed a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study.