The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Slovakia
This page contains a list of the greatest Slovak Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 2 of which were born in Slovakia. This makes Slovakia the birth place of the 39th most number of Mathematicians behind Lithuania and Afghanistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovak Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Slovak Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joseph Petzval (1807 - 1891)
With an HPI of 57.68, Joseph Petzval is the most famous Slovak Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia). Petzval studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum (currently Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Buda (today part of Budapest). He headed the Institute of Practical Geometry and Hydrology/Architecture between 1841 and 1848. Later in life, he accepted an appointment to a chair of mathematics at the University of Vienna. Petzval became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1873. Petzval is considered to be one of the main founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography. Among his inventions are the Petzval portrait lens and opera glasses, both still in common use today. He is also credited with the discovery of the Laplace transform and is also known for his extensive work on aberration in optical systems.
2. Ludwig Schlesinger (1864 - 1933)
With an HPI of 49.08, Ludwig Schlesinger is the 2nd most famous Slovak Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ludwig Schlesinger (Hungarian: Lajos Schlesinger, Slovak Ľudovít Schlesinger), (1 November 1864 – 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as mathematicians born between 1807 and 1864. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Joseph Petzval and Ludwig Schlesinger. As of April 2022, 1 new mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Ludwig Schlesinger.
