Most popular biographies – 2024

Of our 3150 biographies, those below are the 200 which were consulted most often in the last three months.

These numbers were compiled in January 2024.

The number in [brackets] was the position last time we carried out this exercise in 2018 (See THIS LINK).

The biographies at the top of the list were each accessed about 400 times per day, while those near the 200th place were accessed about 20 times per day.

Some notable changes from the earlier version are that Hawking went from 3rd place in 2018 to outside the top 200, while Thomas Fuller came from ouside the top 200 to 17th place.

The popularity of female mathematician's biographies declined markedly as you can see at THIS LINK.

  1.  Ramanujan [1]
  2.  Pythagoras [2]
  3.  Newton [5]
  4.  Brahmagupta [40]
  5.  Bhaskara II [58]
  6.  Archimedes [15]
  7.  Kepler [13]
  8.  Euclid [6]
  9.  Galileo [9]
  10.  Euler [10]
  11.  Rao [165]
  12.  Fibonacci [4]
  13.  Einstein [30]
  14.  Aristotle [23]
  15.  Plato [42]
  16.  Pacioli [34]
  17.  Fuller, Thomas
  18.  Panini [59]
  19.  Al-Biruni [19]
  20.  Pascal [20]
  21.  Leibniz [16]
  22.  Al-Khwarizmi [11]
  23.  Gauss [8]
  24.  Lagrange [26]
  25.  Thales [35]
  1.  Heron [56]
  2.  Eratosthenes [25]
  3.  Turing [57]
  4.  Galois [36]
  5.  Descartes [21]
  6.  Khayyam [54]
  7.  Kaprekar [67]
  8.  Cantor [17]
  9.  Diophantus [46]
  10.  Varahamihira [97]
  11.  Sridhara [98]
  12.  Aryabhata I [74]
  13.  Riemann [18]
  14.  Ptolemy [7]
  15.  Cauchy [53]
  16.  Hypatia [14]
  17.  Hooke [119]
  18.  Bernoulli, Daniel [89]
  19.  Polya [122]
  20.  Harish-Chandra [159]
  21.  Hilbert [31]
  22.  Laplace [39]
  23.  Maxwell [68]
  24.  Mahavira
  25.  Apollonius [88]
  1.  Bohr, Niels [134]
  2.  Cardan [44]
  3.  Baudhayana [133]
  4.  Bernoulli, Jacob [75]
  5.  Al-Tusi, Nasir [137]
  6.  Tao [49]
  7.  Boltzmann [92]
  8.  Copernicus [28]
  9.  Fourier [29]
  10.  Nightingale [64]
  11.  von Neumann [22]
  12.  Napier [48]
  13.  Al-Haytham [33]
  14.  Democritus [123]
  15.  Nash [12]
  16.  Eudoxus [79]
  17.  Banneker [153]
  18.  Hipparchus [66]
  19.  Nilakantha
  20.  Kovalevskaya [80]
  21.  Madhava
  22.  Germain [27]
  23.  Gödel [105]
  24.  Aristarchus [96]
  25.  Fermat [41]
  1.  Viéte [156]
  2.  Ampere [103]
  3.  Mahalanobis [141]
  4.  Perelman [150]
  5.  Babbage [102]
  6.  Erdos [38]
  7.  Torricelli [154]
  8.  Hardy [51]
  9.  Huygens [109]
  10.  Poincaré [60]
  11.  Schrödinger [77]
  12.  Al-Kindi [129]
  13.  Tartaglia [136]
  14.  Escalante
  15.  Empedocles
  16.  Brahe [104]
  17.  Dirichlet [145]
  18.  Bolyai
  19.  Bernoulli, Johann [114]
  20.  Al-Battani [193]
  21.  Alexander
  22.  Faraday [108]
  23.  Hamilton [52]
  24.  Agnesi [94]
  25.  Saitoti

  1.  Legendre [127]
  2.  Mandelbrot [81]
  3.  De Moivre [173]
  4.  Weierstrass [116]
  5.  Dodgson [24]
  6.  Penrose [93]
  7.  Noether, Emmy [73]
  8.  Leonardo da Vinci [121]
  9.  Grothendieck [69]
  10.  Boole [70]
  11.  Johnson, Katherine [50]
  12.  Taylor [100]
  13.  Russell [87]
  14.  Avicenna [32]
  15.  Lobachevsky
  16.  Jacobi [107]
  17.  Chatelet [63]
  18.  Recorde
  19.  Fisher [85]
  20.  Wallis [82]
  21.  Liu Hui [161]
  22.  Cramer [196]
  23.  Mersenne [130]
  24.  Boyle [83]
  25.  De L'Hôpital [187]
  1.  Mobius [148]
  2.  Klein [101]
  3.  Galton
  4.  Anaxagoras [195]
  5.  Hertz, Heinrich
  6.  Banu Musa
  7.  Ohm [99]
  8.  Dantzig, George
  9.  Cayley [84]
  10.  Wiles [37]
  11.  Bayes
  12.  Abel [72]
  13.  Pearson [166]
  14.  Feynman [47]
  15.  Brunelleschi [55]
  16.  Stevin [177]
  17.  Kirchhoff [90]
  18.  Mirzakhani [178]
  19.  Planck [95]
  20.  Abu Kamil
  21.  Paramesvara
  22.  Clarke, Joan [113]
  23.  Apastamba
  24.  Kosambi
  25.  Zhang Heng
  1.  Halley [86]
  2.  Sylvester [120]
  3.  Oughtred
  4.  Zeno of Elea [180]
  5.  Witten [164]
  6.  Conway [151]
  7.  Littlewood [186]
  8.  De Morgan [144]
  9.  Poisson [184]
  10.  Monge
  11.  Robinson, Julia [147]
  12.  Dedekind [146]
  13.  Venn [176]
  14.  Sommerfeld
  15.  Banach [198]
  16.  Kolmogorov [139]
  17.  Minkowski [142]
  18.  Al-Karaji
  19.  Cohen [185]
  20.  Thomson [132]
  21.  Somerville [43]
  22.  Browne [117]
  23.  Knuth [157]
  24.  Cox, Elbert
  25.  Hobbes [179]
  1.  Cavalieri [110]
  2.  Cassini [191]
  3.  Kirch [90]
  4.  Lambert [189]
  5.  Dee
  6.  Cartwright [61]
  7.  Hopper [78]
  8.  Doppler [112]
  9.  Wren [194]
  10.  Hubble
  11.  Aryabhata II
  12.  Stokes [149]
  13.  Anaximander
  14.  Herschel, Caroline [174]
  15.  Coulomb [111]
  16.  Barrow
  17.  Lovelace [71]
  18.  Ulugh Beg
  19.  Theon [171]
  20.  Gosset
  21.  Tukey
  22.  Thabit [188]
  23.  Frobenius
  24.  Dürer [158]
  25.  Heaviside