Trending Mathematicians of all time
The 100 most-viewed mathematicians of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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342,482
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1
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887β1920)
57,098
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,174
views
views
3
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
23,988
views
views
4
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,662
views
views
5
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
14,339
views
views
6
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942β2023)
12,888
views
views
7
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
10,107
views
views
8
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938β2024)
9,545
views
views
9
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
8,779
views
views
10
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588β1679)
7,796
views
views
11
Shing-Tung Yau
American mathematician from Hong Kong
7,453
views
views
12
Jacob Tsimerman
Canadian mathematician (born 1988)
6,614
views
views
13
Johnny Ball
English television personality
6,599
views
views
14
Frances Northcutt
NASA Trajectory Engineer Houston
5,729
views
views
15
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
5,712
views
views
16
Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480β524)
5,023
views
views
17
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
4,849
views
views
18
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
3,738
views
views
19
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766β1844)
2,838
views
views
20
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
2,594
views
views
21
Larry Niven
American writer (born 1938)
2,584
views
views
22
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician and lawyer
2,389
views
views
23
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832β1898)
2,290
views
views
24
Tomasz Mrowka
American mathematician
2,236
views
views
25
Martin Hairer
Austrian-British mathematician working in stochastic analysis
2,185
views
views
26
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
2,135
views
views
27
Hannah Fry
British mathematician and TV presenter (1984-)
2,019
views
views
28
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394β1449)
1,912
views
views
29
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872β1970)
1,893
views
views
30
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
1,789
views
views
31
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743β1794)
1,507
views
views
32
Danica McKellar
American actress and writer
1,495
views
views
33
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775β1836)
1,421
views
views
34
Alistair Strathern
British politician (born 1990)
1,297
views
views
35
Professor Moriarty
fictional character from Sherlock Holmes
1,287
views
views
36
Alessio Figalli
Italian mathematician (1984-)
1,272
views
views
37
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 β c. 495 BC)
1,244
views
views
38
Florian Luca
Romanian mathematician
1,197
views
views
39
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
1,142
views
views
40
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839β1903)
1,137
views
views
41
Richard Borcherds
mathematician
1,135
views
views
42
Elias M. Stein
American mathematician (1931-2018)
1,134
views
views
43
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
1,115
views
views
44
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician (1752β1833)
1,102
views
views
45
Ahmad al-Buni
Muslim mathematician, philosopher and Sufi
1,097
views
views
46
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
1,093
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
1,085
views
views
48
Michael Freedman
Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
1,082
views
views
49
Bruce Schneier
American computer scientist
1,078
views
views
50
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
1,071
views
views
51
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
1,064
views
views
52
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
1,061
views
views
53
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher
1,052
views
views
54
Hannah Cairo
American mathematician
1,050
views
views
55
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
1,040
views
views
56
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
1,034
views
views
57
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
1,012
views
views
58
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
979
views
views
59
Edward Norton Lorenz
American mathematician and meteorologist (1917β2008)
975
views
views
60
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician (1892β1945)
967
views
views
61
Daniel J. Bernstein
American German mathematician, cryptologist and programmer
917
views
views
62
Richard Courant
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
879
views
views
63
John Lennox
Northern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science (b. 1943)
825
views
views
64
Anand Kumar
Indian mathematician
824
views
views
65
David Cheriton
Canadian businessman and computer scientist
813
views
views
66
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78β139)
805
views
views
67
Noam Elkies
American mathematician
803
views
views
68
Len Sassaman
US computer systems engineer
768
views
views
69
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895β1983)
749
views
views
70
Bram Cohen
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
740
views
views
71
Nick Szabo
American computer scientist
716
views
views
72
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
708
views
views
73
Thomas Reid
Scottish philosopher (1710β1796)
706
views
views
74
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946β2013)
700
views
views
75
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
678
views
views
76
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
672
views
views
77
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
672
views
views
78
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
670
views
views
79
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician (1977β2017)
660
views
views
80
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781β1868)
657
views
views
81
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
657
views
views
82
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
654
views
views
83
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
651
views
views
84
Harish-Chandra
Indian American mathematician and physicist (1923β1983)
640
views
views
85
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823β1891)
634
views
views
86
Felix Hausdorff
German mathematician (*1868 β β 1942)
631
views
views
87
Yvan Martel
French mathematician
625
views
views
88
Lionel Penrose
British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician, and chess theorist (*1898 β β 1972)
623
views
views
89
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923β2020)
622
views
views
90
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924β2007)
621
views
views
91
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
619
views
views
92
Bernard Chazelle
French computer scientist
618
views
views
93
Inah Canabarro Lucas
Brazilian nun and supercentenarian (1908β2025)
616
views
views
94
Kiyoshi ItΕ
Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915β2008)
602
views
views
95
Nikolai Durov
Russian programmer and mathematician
598
views
views
96
Robert Tarjan
American computer scientist
593
views
views
97
Rudy Rucker
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)
590
views
views
98
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882β1937)
586
views
views
99
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
582
views
views
100
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
576
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