The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 2 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 37th most number of Mathematicians behind New Zealand and Uzbekistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hermann Minkowski (1864 - 1909)
With an HPI of 68.15, Hermann Minkowski is the most famous Lithuanian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 59 different languages on wikipedia.
Hermann Minkowski ( ming-KAWF-skee, -KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime", which facilitated geometric interpretations of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905).
2. Bruno Abakanowicz (1852 - 1900)
With an HPI of 52.69, Bruno Abakanowicz is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (6 October 1852 – 29 August 1900) was a Polish mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as mathematicians born between 1852 and 1864. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Hermann Minkowski and Bruno Abakanowicz.
