Trending Mathematicians of all time

1

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations Person

60,796
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2

George Washington

founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)

Person

57,926
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3

Leo XIV

267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025–)

📚 29 citations Person

46,744
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4

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

📚 102 citations Person

44,271
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5

Hannah Fry

British mathematician and TV presenter (1984-)

📚 23 citations Person

37,091
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6

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)

📚 54 citations Person

32,211
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7

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician (1887–1920)

📚 22 citations Person

31,975
views

8

Thomas Jefferson

president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

📚 56 citations Person

30,673
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9

Alan Turing

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

📚 41 citations Person

29,224
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10

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

📚 33 citations Person

28,519
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11

René Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

📚 48 citations Person

20,537
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12

Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

📚 47 citations Person

17,797
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13

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

📚 52 citations Person

16,863
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14

Ilya Sutskever

Canadian-Israeli AI researcher

📚 6 citations Person

14,275
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15

Albert Einstein

german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

📚 92 citations Person

12,371
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16

Satoshi Nakamoto

pseudonym for the person or group who designed and developed Bitcoin

📚 10 citations Place

12,251
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17

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician (born 1966)

📚 23 citations Person

11,950
views

18

John von Neumann

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

📚 37 citations Person

11,881
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19

John Forbes Nash

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

📚 40 citations Person

11,554
views

20

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

📚 50 citations Person

10,930
views

21

Archimedes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

📚 32 citations Person

10,555
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22

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

📚 50 citations Person

10,555
views

23

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

📚 43 citations Person

10,347
views

24

Cleve Moler

American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026)

📚 11 citations Person

9,874
views

25

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

📚 43 citations Person

9,590
views

26

Jim Simons

American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)

📚 15 citations Person

9,373
views

27

Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)

📚 41 citations Person

9,306
views

28

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher (1588–1679)

📚 37 citations Person

9,227
views

29

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

📚 46 citations Person

8,784
views

30

Eric Weinstein

American mathematician and venture capital director

📚 16 citations Person

8,766
views

31

Ted Kaczynski

American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)

📚 24 citations Person

8,468
views

32

John Maynard Keynes

British economist (1883–1946)

📚 40 citations Person

8,141
views

33

Hypatia

Greek Neoplatonist philosopher

📚 13 citations Person

8,057
views

34

Mileva Marić

Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

📚 21 citations Person

8,015
views

35

Nostradamus

French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)

📚 16 citations Person

7,718
views

36

Dexter Holland

American rock musician

📚 8 citations Person

7,132
views

37

Alexey Pajitnov

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

📚 8 citations Person

6,976
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38

Richard A. Tapia

American mathematician

📚 13 citations Person

6,948
views

39

Sergio Fajardo

Colombian politician and mathematician

📚 10 citations Person

6,802
views

40

John Dee

16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist

📚 31 citations Person

6,761
views

41

Claude Shannon

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

📚 36 citations Person

6,746
views

42

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

📚 61 citations Person

6,672
views

43

Albrecht Dürer

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)

📚 69 citations Person

6,659
views

44

Roger Penrose

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

📚 42 citations Person

6,435
views

45

Fibonacci

Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)

📚 24 citations Person

5,966
views

46

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

📚 30 citations Person

5,884
views

47

William James Sidis

American child prodigy (1898-1944)

📚 7 citations Person

5,770
views

48

Giordano Bruno

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)

📚 44 citations Person

5,594
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49

Charles Babbage

English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)

📚 41 citations Person

5,357
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50

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

📚 45 citations Person

5,159
views

51

Ptolemy

2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

📚 35 citations Person

5,135
views

52

Alexander Grothendieck

French mathematician (1928–2014)

📚 28 citations Person

5,076
views

53

Gregor Mendel

Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)

📚 38 citations Person

4,954
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54

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

📚 48 citations Person

4,939
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55

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Indian-American astrophysicist

📚 38 citations Person

4,927
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56

Karl Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitaria

📚 55 citations Person

4,920
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57

Euclid

ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)

📚 25 citations Person

4,875
views

58

Éamon de Valera

Irish statesman (1882–1975)

📚 26 citations Person

4,855
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59

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations Person

4,595
views

60

Boethius

Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)

📚 39 citations Person

4,516
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61

Satyendra Nath Bose

Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)

📚 18 citations Person

4,378
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62

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations Person

4,225
views

63

Paul Dirac

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

📚 42 citations Person

3,987
views

64

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)

📚 28 citations Person

3,887
views

65

Jason Padgett

mathematical savant

Person

3,863
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66

Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

📚 32 citations Person

3,849
views

67

Nicușor Dan

President of Romania since 2025

📚 10 citations Person

3,810
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68

Jean Piaget

Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)

📚 45 citations Person

3,774
views

69

Aristotle

4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath

📚 70 citations Person

3,612
views

70

Eratosthenes

Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist

📚 21 citations Person

3,611
views

71

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations Person

3,569
views

72

Saul Kripke

American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)

📚 33 citations Person

3,549
views

73

Timothy Gowers

British mathematician

📚 21 citations Person

3,537
views

74

Mary Jackson

American mathematician and aerospace engineer

📚 8 citations Person

3,442
views

75

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations Person

3,401
views

76

Joan Clarke

English cryptanalyst

📚 7 citations Person

3,270
views

77

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations Person

3,269
views

78

Idris

prophet

📚 3 citations Thing

3,246
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79

Ernő Rubik

Hungarian inventor (born 1944)

📚 13 citations Person

3,166
views

80

Charles Sanders Peirce

American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)

📚 32 citations Person

3,134
views

81

Alessio Figalli

Italian mathematician (1984-)

📚 20 citations Person

3,064
views

82

Katherine Johnson

African-American mathematician

📚 28 citations Person

2,971
views

83

Aryabhata

Indian mathematician-astronomer

📚 14 citations Person

2,932
views

84

William of Ockham

English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)

📚 25 citations Person

2,896
views

85

Georges Lemaître

Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)

Person

2,826
views

86

Margaret Hamilton

American NASA scientist and mathematician

📚 9 citations Person

2,800
views

87

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)

📚 33 citations Person

2,762
views

88

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

📚 49 citations Person

2,757
views

89

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

📚 32 citations Person

2,755
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90

Harry Enten

American journalist

Person

2,746
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91

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

📚 72 citations Person

2,743
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92

G.H. Hardy

British mathematician (1877–1947)

📚 36 citations Person

2,723
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93

Adam Back

British cryptographer

📚 2 citations Person

2,674
views

94

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)

📚 33 citations Person

2,581
views

95

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)

📚 35 citations Person

2,541
views

96

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher (1724-1804)

📚 38 citations Person

2,534
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97

Auguste Comte

French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)

📚 35 citations Person

2,506
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98

Shing-Tung Yau

American mathematician from Hong Kong

📚 39 citations Person

2,470
views

99

Georg Cantor

German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)

📚 28 citations Person

2,465
views

100

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician and lawyer

📚 27 citations Person

2,400
views