







The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegians Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 12 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 19th most number of Mathematicians behind Egypt and Türkiye.
Top 10 Norwegian Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Norwegians Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Norwegians 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 Norwegians Mathematicians.
- #1

Niels Henrik Abel
1802 - 1829
HPI 79.1788 langsNiels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who is most famous for his proof of the impossibility of solving the general quintic...Read moreShow less
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who is most famous for his proof of the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals.
- #2

Sophus Lie
1842 - 1899
HPI 68.6749 langsSophus Lie was a Norwegian mathematician who is most famous for the theory of continuous groups.
- #3

Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
1832 - 1918
HPI 67.7927 langsNorwegian mathematician (1832-1918)
- #4

Atle Selberg
1917 - 2007
HPI 64.9742 langsNorwegian mathematician
- #5

Viggo Brun
1885 - 1978
HPI 63.5327 langsNorwegian mathematician (1885–1978)
- #6

Caspar Wessel
1745 - 1818
HPI 63.3728 langsDanish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)
- #7

Cato Maximilian Guldberg
1836 - 1902
HPI 61.4125 langsmathematician and chemist from Norway
- #8

Bernt Michael Holmboe
1795 - 1850
HPI 59.0622 langsNorwegian mathematician (1795–1850)
- #9

Thoralf Skolem
1887 - 1963
HPI 57.7125 langsNorwegian mathematician (1887-1963)
- #10

Carl Størmer
1874 - 1957
HPI 57.2924 langsNorwegian geophysicist and mathematician (1874-1957)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Norwegians Mathematicians grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 11 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.


