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The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Latvia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 2 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 41st most number of Mathematicians behind Slovakia and Estonia.

Top 2

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

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1. Eliyahu Rips (1948 - )

With an HPI of 47.68, Eliyahu Rips is the most famous Latvian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Eliyahu Rips (Hebrew: אליהו ריפס; Russian: Илья Рипс; Latvian: Iļja Ripss; born 12 December 1948) is an Israeli mathematician of Latvian origin known for his research in geometric group theory. He became known to the general public following his co-authoring a paper on what is popularly known as Bible code, the supposed coded messaging in the Hebrew text of the Torah.

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2. Daina Taimiņa (1954 - )

With an HPI of 39.27, Daina Taimiņa is the 2nd most famous Latvian Mathematician.  Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Daina Taimiņa (born August 19, 1954) is a Latvian mathematician, retired adjunct associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University, known for developing a way of modeling hyperbolic geometry with crocheted objects.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as mathematicians born between 1948 and 1954. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mathematicians include Eliyahu Rips and Daina Taimiņa.

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