







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

Viktor Sadovnichiy
b. 1939
Trending in Russian (#6) Wikipedia (8,144 views, on Apr 3).
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainians Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 32 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 8th most number of Mathematicians behind Italy and Poland.
Top 10 Ukrainian Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Ukrainians Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Ukrainians 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 Ukrainians Mathematicians.
- #1

Stanislaw Ulam
1909 - 1984
HPI 74.0255 langsPolish-American mathematician
- #2

Mikhail Ostrogradsky
1801 - 1862
HPI 69.3345 langsMikhail Ostrogradsky is most famous for his research on the structure of the brain and his discovery of the pyramidal tract.
- #3

Vladimir Arnold
1937 - 2010
HPI 68.4355 langsVladimir Arnold is most famous for his work in the field of differential geometry. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field.
- #4

Jan Łukasiewicz
1878 - 1956
HPI 67.5341 langsPolish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
- #5

Tatyana Afanasyeva
1876 - 1964
HPI 67.3931 langsRussian/Dutch mathematician and physicist
- #6

Anatoly Fomenko
b. 1945
HPI 66.2038 langsRussian mathematician
- #7

Richard von Mises
1883 - 1953
HPI 66.1435 langsRichard von Mises was a mathematician and economist who is most famous for his work in probability theory.
- #8

Israel Gelfand
1913 - 2009
HPI 65.3939 langsSoviet-American mathematician
- #9

Viktor Bunyakovsky
1804 - 1889
HPI 63.4722 langsRussian mathematician (1804-1889)
- #10

Alfred J. Lotka
1880 - 1949
HPI 63.1527 langsAmerican mathematician (1880–1949)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Ukrainians 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.





















