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Mathematicians from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 7 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 26th most number of Mathematicians behind Denmark and Czechia.
Top 8 Swedish Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Swedish Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Helge von Koch
1870 - 1924
HPI 66.7125 langsSwedish mathematician (1870-1924)
- #2

Gösta Mittag-Leffler
1846 - 1927
HPI 66.1933 langsGösta Mittag-Leffler is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a Swedish mathematician who discovered an important...Read moreShow less
Gösta Mittag-Leffler is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a Swedish mathematician who discovered an important theorem in the field of Diophantine equations, which became known as the Mittag-Leffler theorem.
- #3

Lennart Carleson
b. 1928
HPI 63.9635 langsSwedish mathematician
- #4

Lars Hörmander
1931 - 2012
HPI 63.0936 langsSwedish mathematician
- #5

Erik Ivar Fredholm
1866 - 1927
HPI 60.0225 langsSwedish mathematician
- #6

Georg Stiernhielm
1598 - 1672
HPI 57.8718 langsSwedish noble (1598-1672)
- #7

Harald Cramér
1893 - 1985
HPI 55.9521 langsSwedish mathematician (1893–1985)
- #8

Ivar Otto Bendixson
1861 - 1935
HPI 51.9715 langsSwedish mathematician
Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 6 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
