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The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Peru

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This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 61st most number of Mathematicians behind Brazil and Taiwan.

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

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1. Harald Helfgott (1977 - )

With an HPI of 36.22, Harald Helfgott is the most famous Peruvian Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Harald Andrés Helfgott (born 25 November 1977) is a Peruvian mathematician working in number theory. Helfgott is a researcher (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS at the Institut Mathématique de Jussieu, Paris. He is best known for submitting a proof, now widely accepted but not yet fully published, of Goldbach's weak conjecture.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1977 and 1977. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mathematicians include Harald Helfgott.

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