







The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Poland
Trending Mathematicians from Poland This Week
The top 10 Mathematicians from Poland trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Stefan Banach
1892 - 1945
Trending in Polish (#96) Wikipedia (599 views, on Mar 14).
This page contains a list of the greatest Polish Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 45 of which were born in Poland. This makes Poland the birth place of the 7th most number of Mathematicians behind Russia and Italy.
Top 10 Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Polish Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Polish 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 Polish Mathematicians.
- #1

Benoit Mandelbrot
1924 - 2010
HPI 73.7167 langsBenoit Mandelbrot is most famous for his work in fractal geometry, which is the study of shapes that are infinitely complex and...Read moreShow less
Benoit Mandelbrot is most famous for his work in fractal geometry, which is the study of shapes that are infinitely complex and self-similar.
- #2

Stefan Banach
1892 - 1945
HPI 73.0271 langsStefan Banach is most famous for his contributions to the field of mathematics. He made major contributions to the fields of functional...Read moreShow less
Stefan Banach is most famous for his contributions to the field of mathematics. He made major contributions to the fields of functional analysis, measure theory, and topology.
- #3

Leopold Kronecker
1823 - 1891
HPI 72.7153 langsLeopold Kronecker is most famous for his statement "God created the integers, all else is the work of man."
- #4

Marian Rejewski
1905 - 1980
HPI 68.9340 langsMarian Rejewski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who broke the German Enigma machine in 1932.
- #5

Ernst Kummer
1810 - 1893
HPI 68.6841 langsErnst Kummer was a mathematician who was most famous for his work on Fermat's Last Theorem.
- #6

Felix Hausdorff
1868 - 1942
HPI 68.3345 langsFelix Hausdorff was a mathematician who is most famous for his work in set theory.
- #7

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
1651 - 1708
HPI 68.2430 langsEhrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is most famous for his work on the theory of electricity. He was the first to realize that electricity...Read moreShow less
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is most famous for his work on the theory of electricity. He was the first to realize that electricity was a form of energy, and he was the first to use the word "electricity" in its modern sense.
- #8

Wacław Sierpiński
1882 - 1969
HPI 67.7037 langsWacław Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician who is most famous for his work on fractals.
- #10

Hermann Schwarz
1843 - 1921
HPI 67.0033 langsHermann Schwarz is most famous for his discovery of the Schwarzschild radius, which is the radius of a black hole.
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Polish 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 25 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.



































