The Most Famous

Mathematicians from Netherlands

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This page contains a list of the greatest Dutchs Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 15 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 15th most number of Mathematicians behind Iran and Austria.

Top 10 Dutch Mathematicians

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Dutchs Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Dutchs 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 Dutchs Mathematicians.

  1. #1
    Photo of L. E. J. Brouwer

    L. E. J. Brouwer

    1881 - 1966

    HPI 72.4237 langs
    L.E.J. Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and one of the founders of topology. He is most famous for the Brouwer fixed point theorem, which...Read moreShow less

    L.E.J. Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and one of the founders of topology. He is most famous for the Brouwer fixed point theorem, which states that any continuous function from a compact convex set into itself has at least one fixed point.

  2. #2
    Photo of Willebrord Snellius

    Willebrord Snellius

    1580 - 1626

    HPI 71.4544 langs
    Willebrord Snellius is most famous for his law of refraction, which is the law that governs the relationship between the angle of incidence...Read moreShow less

    Willebrord Snellius is most famous for his law of refraction, which is the law that governs the relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction.

  3. #3
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    Gemma Frisius

    1508 - 1555

    HPI 65.1330 langs

    Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)

  4. #4
    Photo of Isaac Beeckman

    Isaac Beeckman

    1588 - 1637

    HPI 64.3320 langs

    Dutch philosopher and scientist

  5. #5
    Photo of Willem de Sitter

    Willem de Sitter

    1872 - 1934

    HPI 64.0442 langs

    Dutch cosmologist (*1872 – †1934)

  6. #6
    Photo of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

    1903 - 1996

    HPI 61.7924 langs

    Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics (1903–1996)

  7. #7
    Photo of Auguste Kerckhoffs

    Auguste Kerckhoffs

    1835 - 1903

    HPI 60.6820 langs

    Dutch linguist and cryptographer

People by Birth Decade

Browse notable Dutchs Mathematicians grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.

Overlapping Lives

Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 10 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.

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