The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 45th most number of Mathematicians behind Jordan and Libya.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pedro Nunes (1502 - 1577)
With an HPI of 58.74, Pedro Nunes is the most famous Portuguese Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Pedro Nunes (Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈnunɨʃ]; Latin: Petrus Nonius; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, Nunes is best known for being the first to approach navigation and cartography with mathematical tools. Among other accomplishments, he was the first to propose the idea of a loxodrome, and was the inventor of several measuring devices, including the nonius (from which the Vernier scale was derived), named after his Latin surname.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1502 and 1502. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Pedro Nunes.
