







The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russians Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 71 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 5th most number of Mathematicians behind Germany and United States.
Top 10 Russian Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Russians Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Russians 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 Russians Mathematicians.
- #1

David Hilbert
1862 - 1943
HPI 81.20129 langsHilbert is most famous for proving that the set of all real numbers is not countable.
- #2

Georg Cantor
1845 - 1918
HPI 78.4492 langsGeorg Cantor is most famous for his work in set theory. He developed the concept of a transfinite set, which is a set that is larger than...Read moreShow less
Georg Cantor is most famous for his work in set theory. He developed the concept of a transfinite set, which is a set that is larger than any natural number.
- #3

Sofia Kovalevskaya
1850 - 1891
HPI 75.2477 langsSofia Kovalevskaya is most famous for being the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. She was born in 1849 and received her degree...Read moreShow less
Sofia Kovalevskaya is most famous for being the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. She was born in 1849 and received her degree from the University of Stockholm in 1874.
- #4

Nikolai Lobachevsky
1792 - 1856
HPI 74.6283 langsNikolai Lobachevsky is most famous for his work in geometry. He is best known for his work on non-Euclidean geometry, which was a...Read moreShow less
Nikolai Lobachevsky is most famous for his work in geometry. He is best known for his work on non-Euclidean geometry, which was a revolutionary discovery in the world of mathematics.
- #5

Andrey Kolmogorov
1903 - 1987
HPI 74.1968 langsAndrey Kolmogorov was a Russian mathematician who is most famous for his contributions to probability theory and information theory.
- #6

Christian Goldbach
1690 - 1764
HPI 72.9143 langsChristian Goldbach is most famous for his conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.
- #7

Grigori Perelman
b. 1966
HPI 71.2468 langsGrigori Perelman is most famous for solving the Poincare conjecture, which is the idea that any three-dimensional sphere is homeomorphic to...Read moreShow less
Grigori Perelman is most famous for solving the Poincare conjecture, which is the idea that any three-dimensional sphere is homeomorphic to the three-dimensional sphere.
- #8

Leonid Kantorovich
1912 - 1986
HPI 71.1264 langsLeonid Kantorovich is most famous for his contributions to linear programming and optimal resource allocation.
- #9

Alexander Friedmann
1888 - 1925
HPI 71.0552 langsAlexandr Friedmann is most famous for his idea of an expanding universe.
- #10

Andrey Markov
1856 - 1922
HPI 68.9053 langsAndrey Markov is most famous for the Markov chain, which is a mathematical model of a stochastic process.
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Russians 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.



























































