The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from South Korea

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This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, NaN of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 0th most number of Mathematicians.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous South Korean Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Hee Oh (b. 1969)

With an HPI of 42.92, Hee Oh is the most famous South Korean Mathematician.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Hee Oh (Korean: 오희, born 27 October 1969) is a Korean American mathematician and the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. She made contributions to dynamical systems, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and their connections to geometry and number theory.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as South Korean mathematicians born between 1969 and 1969. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South Korean mathematicians include Hee Oh. As of April 2024, 1 new South Korean mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Hee Oh.

Living South Korean Mathematicians

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Newly Added South Korean Mathematicians (2025)

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