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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5151

Fabio Toninelli

#99127

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Fabio Toninelli is an Italian mathematician who works in probability theory, stochastic processes and probabilistic aspects of mathematical physics. Education He obtained his PhD in physics, in 2003, from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

#5152

Wang Xianghao

#57392

Overall Influence

1915 - 1993 (78 years)

Wang Xianghao, Shianghao Wang, or Shianghaw Wang was a Chinese mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem in , correcting an error in Wilhelm Grunwald's original statement and proof of this. He later changed from mathematics to computer science and control theory, and became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#5153

Catherine Bandle

#93762

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Catherine Bandle is a Swiss mathematician known for her research on differential equations, including semilinear elliptic equations and reaction-diffusion equations, and for her book on isoperimetric inequalities. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Basel.

#5154

Jan Saxl

#92065

Overall Influence

1948 - 2020 (72 years)

Jan Saxl was a Czech-British mathematician, and a professor at the University of Cambridge. He was known for his work in finite group theory, particularly on consequences of the classification of finite simple groups.

#5155

Annita Tuller

#91887

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Annita Tuller was an American mathematician known for her 1967 textbook A Modern Introduction to Geometries. She was a professor at Lehman College in the City University of New York system. Early life and education Tuller was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 30, 1910 to a family of Russian immigrants; her father was a jeweler. She went to public schools in Brooklyn, graduating from Erasmus Hall High School when she was 14 years old, and beginning her studies at Hunter College in the same year. She graduated from Hunter College in 1929, and became a graduate student at Bryn Mawr Co...

#5156

Pino Caballero Gil

#33443

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Pino Caballero Gil is a Spanish scientist. She is a professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of La Laguna where she coordinates the CryptULL cryptology research group.

#5157

Elayne Arrington

#78610

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Elayne Arrington is an American mathematician and engineer. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning her Ph.D., she went on to conduct performance analyses of Soviet Union aircraft at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

#5158

Sandra Di Rocco

#95769

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Sandra Di Rocco is an Italian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. She works in Sweden as a professor of mathematics and dean of the faculty of engineering science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and chairs the Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#5159

Lucy R. Wyatt

#89446

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Lucy R. Wyatt is an English mathematician and a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield, Yorkshire. She is a member of the Environmental Dynamics research group in the School of Mathematics.

#5160

Tibor Šalát

#86913

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

Tibor Šalát was a Slovak mathematician, professor of mathematics, and Doctor of Mathematics who specialized in number theory and real analysis. He was the author and co-author of undergraduate and graduate textbooks in mathematics, mostly in Slovak. And most of his scholarly papers have been published in various scientific journals.

#5161

Constantin Corduneanu

#81382

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Constantin Corduneanu was a Romanian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2015, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy; he was a corresponding member of the Academy since 1974.

#5162

Ashkan Nikeghbali

#105322

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Ashkan Nikeghbali Cisakht is a mathematician and university professor . He holds the chair of Financial Mathematics at the University of Zurich. Academic career Nikeghbali obtained his PhD at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2005 with the thesis "Temps aléatoires, filtrations et sous-martingales: quelques développements récents", supervised by Marc Yor. Prior to that, he was a researcher from February 2004 to July 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute on the topic of "Random matrix approaches in number theory." After completing his PhD, Nikeghbali first worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the American Institute of Mathematics at Rochester University.

#5163

Richard Larson

#73509

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Richard "Dick" Charles Larson is an American operations researcher and educator. Since 1969, he has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with various appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Urban Studies and Planning, and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society . Larson is currently Post-Tenure Mitsui Professor of Data, Systems, and Society.

#5164

Julianna Tymoczko

#81654

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Julianna Sophia Tymoczko is an American mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including representation theory, Schubert calculus, equivariant cohomology, and Hessenberg varieties. She is a professor of mathematics at Smith College.

#5165

Eric Vanden-Eijnden

#105377

Overall Influence

Eric Vanden-Eijnden is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Vanden-Eijnden earned his doctorate in 1997 from the Université libre de Bruxelles under the supervision of Radu Bălescu. In 2009 he was awarded the Germund Dahlquist Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for his work in developing mathematical tools and numerical methods for the analysis of dynamical systems that are both stochastic and multiscale", and in 2011 he won SIAM's J.D. Crawford Prize for outstanding research in nonlinear science.

#5166

Sanford Weisberg

#105384

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

#5167

Michael Scott Jacobson

#96139

Overall Influence

Michael S. Jacobson is a mathematician, and Professor of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences in the Department of Mathematical & Statistical Science at the University of Colorado Denver. He served as Chair from 2003 to 2012 and was on loan serving as a program director in EHR/DUE at the National Science Foundation.

#5168

Raymond Ogden

#59510

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Raymond William Ogden is a British applied mathematician. He is the George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow. Education Ogden earned his BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge in 1970, under the supervision of Rodney Hill. His thesis was entitled On Constitutive Relations for Elastic and Plastic Materials.

#5169

Luigi Chierchia

#97213

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Luigi Chierchia is an Italian mathematician, specializing in nonlinear differential equations, mathematical physics, and dynamical systems . Chierchia studied physics and mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome with Laurea degree in 1981 with supervisor Giovanni Gallavotti. After a year of military service, Chierchia studied mathematics at the Courant Institute of New York University and received his PhD there in 1985. His doctoral dissertation Quasi-Periodic Schrödinger Operators in One Dimension, Absolutely Continuous Spectra, Bloch Waves and integrable Hamiltonian Systems was supervised by Henry P.

#5170

Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan

#105449

Overall Influence

#5171

Geneviève Raugel

Geneviève Raugel

#92096

Overall Influence

1951 - 2019 (68 years)

Geneviève Raugel was a French mathematician working in the field of numerical analysis and dynamical systems. Biography Raugel entered the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1972, obtaining the agrégation in mathematics in 1976. She earned her Ph.D degree from University of Rennes 1 in 1978 with a thesis entitled Résolution numérique de problèmes elliptiques dans des domaines avec coins .

#5172

Franklin P. Peterson

#98208

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Franklin Paul Peterson was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Life and career Peterson was born in Aurora, Illinois, on August 27, 1930, the older of two brothers. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother and uncle. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1952, and earned his Ph.D. in 1955 from Princeton University under the supervision of Norman Steenrod. After postdoctoral studies at Princeton, he joined the MIT faculty in 1958.

#5173

Nancy Cole

#79569

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

For the American educational psychologist and expert on educational assessment, see Nancy Cole. Nancy Cole was an American mathematician who made important and pioneering contributions to Morse theory.

#5174

Boris Kushner

#73831

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Boris Abramovich Kushner was a mathematician, poet and essayist. His primary contribution in mathematics was in the field of Constructive Mathematical Analysis and the Theory of Constructive Numbers and Functions. He has published several books of poetry and a number of music, literary, and political essays . Dr. Kushner taught at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

#5175

Erling Sverdrup

#87022

Overall Influence

1917 - 1994 (77 years)

Erling Sverdrup was a Norwegian statistician and actuarial mathematician. He played an instrumental role in building up and modernising the fields of mathematical statistics and actuarial science in Norway, primarily at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo but also via his links to Statistics Norway.

#5176

Ted Kaczynski

#10937

Overall Influence

1942 - 2023 (81 years)

Theodore John Kaczynski , also known as the Unabomber , was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle.

#5177

Thierry Goudon

#89291

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Thierry Goudon is a French mathematician. He works in applied mathematics, with interest in the study of Partial Differential Equations motivated from physics. He has made contributions on kinetic theory, which corresponds to a description of matter in terms of statistical physics. The Boltzmann equation for gas dynamics is a typical example of this activity. The kinetic framework also arises in many other fields: neutron transport, radiative transfer, and biology. He is interested in asymptotic analysis, including the study of hydrodynamic regimes and homogenization theory, establishing relationships between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions.

#5178

Ernst Sejersted Selmer

#23246

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Ernst Sejersted Selmer was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked in number theory, as well as a cryptologist. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His primary contributions to mathematics reside within the field of diophantine equations. He started working as a cryptologist during the Second World War; due to his work, Norway became a NATO superpower in the field of encryption.

#5179

Margaret Maxfield

#82603

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Margaret Alice Waugh Maxfield was an American mathematician and mathematics book author. Education and personal life Margaret Waugh was born on February 23, 1926, in Willimantic, Connecticut. Her father was agricultural economist Frederick V. Waugh and her grandfather was horticulturist Frank Albert Waugh.

#5180

Jean Yang

#83848

Overall Influence

Jean Yee Hwa Yang is an Australian statistician known for her work on variance reduction for microarrays, and for inferring proteins from mass spectrometry data. Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.

#5181

Miriam Becker

#82410

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Miriam Freda Becker was an American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure in the City University of New York system in the 1930s. Early life and education Becker was the middle of three children of an immigrant family; her mother came from Russia and her father, an insurance salesman, from Austria. She majored in mathematics at Hunter College, in the City University of New York system, graduating in 1930, earned a master's degree there in 1932, and became a doctoral student at Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1934 under the supervision o...

#5182

Kenneth I. Gross

Kenneth I. Gross

#83420

Overall Influence

1938 - 2017 (79 years)

Kenneth Irwin Gross was an American mathematician. Born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1938, Gross received from Brandeis University his bachelor's degree in 1960 and his master's degree in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Washington University in St. Louis under Ray Kunze with thesis . He was an assistant professor from 1966 to 1968 at Tulane University and an assistant professor from 1968 to 1973 at Dartmouth College. He became in 1973 an associate professor and eventually a full professor at the University of North Carolina before resigning in 1981. From 1981 to 1985 he was the chair of the mathematics department of the University of Wyoming.

#5183

Ljubisa D.R. Kocinac

#93337

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Ljubisa Dragi Rosanda Kocinac is a mathematician and currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Niš, Serbia. His research interests include aspects of topology, especially selection principles, topological games and coverings of topological spaces, and mathematical analysis. In particular, he introduced star selection principles.

#5184

Clarice Weinberg

#94258

Overall Influence

Clarice Ring Weinberg is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist who works for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch. Her research concerns environmental epidemiology, and its combination with genetics in susceptibility to disease, including running the Sister Study on how environmental and genetic effects can lead to breast cancer. She has also published highly cited research on fertility.

#5185

Marta Macho Stadler

Marta Macho Stadler

#82951

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Marta Macho Stadler is a Basque mathematician, expert in scientific divulgation. She teaches undergraduate courses on geometry and topology at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and her research area is the Geometric Theory of Foliations and Noncommutative Geometry. She is editor in chief of the digital blog Mujeres con Ciencia of the Scientific Culture Chair UPV/EHU and has been awarded several prizes, among others the Emakunde Equality Prize 2006.

#5186

Laurence D. Marks

#80107

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Laurence Daniel Marks is an American professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. He has contributed to the study of nanoparticles and worked in the fields of electron microscopy, diffraction, and crystallography.

#5187

Kousha Etessami

#68324

Overall Influence

Kousha Etessami is a professor of computer science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995. He works on theoretical computer science, in particular on computational complexity theory, game theory and probabilistic systems.

#5188

Alberto Kornblihtt

Alberto Kornblihtt

#29699

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Alberto Kornblihtt is an Argentine molecular biologist who specializes in alternative ribonucleic acid splicing. During his postdoctoral training with Francisco Baralle in Oxford, Kornblihtt documented one of the first cases of alternative splicing, explaining how a single transcribed gene can generate multiple protein variants. Kornblihtt was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2011, received the Diamond Award for the most relevant scientist of Argentina of the decade, alongside physicist Juan Martin Maldacena, in 2013., and was incorpor...

#5189

Edriss Titi

#97986

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Edriss Saleh Titi is an Arab-Israeli mathematician. He is Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge. He also holds the Arthur Owen Professorship of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, and serves as Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

#5190

Ed Perkins

#100158

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Edwin Arend Perkins, is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.

#5191

Susanne Ditlevsen

Susanne Ditlevsen

#86496

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Susanne Ditlevsen is a Danish mathematician and statistician, interested in mathematical biology, perception, dynamical systems, and statistical modeling of biological systems. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen, where she heads the section of statistics and probability theory.

#5192

Philip Welch

#44914

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Philip David Welch is a British mathematician known for his contributions to logic and set theory. He is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. He is currently President of the British Logic Colloquium , Vice-President of the European Set Theory Society , and the Coordinating Editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic .

#5193

W. -h. Li

#105769

Overall Influence

#5194

Julia Lane

#73832

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Julia Ingrid Lane is an economist and economic statistician who works as a professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress, helping CUSP to build CUSP data facility. Also, she works in NYU's GovLab as a Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics and Senior Fellow.

#5195

Probal Chaudhuri

#91008

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Probal Chaudhuri is an Indian statistician. He is a professor of theoretical statistics and mathematics in the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Chaudhuri obtained his BStat and MStat degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He then joined University of Wisconsin, Madison as an assistant professor in 1988. After two years he returned to India in 1990 and joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, as a lecturer. He was promoted to full professorship in 1997. Some of the widely used statistical techniques and concepts t...

#5196

Daniel Kubert

#103288

Overall Influence

1947 - 2010 (63 years)

Daniel Sion Kubert was an American mathematician who introduced modular units and Kubert identities. He grew up in a secular Jewish family in Elkins Park, PA, the son of David Kubert, an attorney, and Adele Kubert, a high school teacher. Daniel graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1965 and from Brown University in 1969. He received his PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1973.

#5197

Stephen Milne

#93564

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Stephen Carl Milne is an American mathematician who works in the fields of analysis, analytic number theory, and combinatorics. Milne received a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1976. His thesis, Peano curves and smoothness of functions, was written under Adriano M. Garsia. From 1976 to 1978 he was a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University. Milne taught at Texas A&M University, UCSD, the University of Kentucky, and Ohio State University, where he became in 1982 an associate professor and in 1985 a full professor...

#5198

R. H. Bruck

#97862

Overall Influence

1914 - 1991 (77 years)

Richard Hubert Bruck was an American mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Bruck studied at the University of Toronto, where he received his doctorate in 1940 under the supervision of Richard Brauer. He spent most his career as a professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, advising at least 31 doctoral students.

#5199

Louis J. Gross

#50966

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Louis J. Gross is distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee. He is the founding director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the Institute for Environmental Modeling. His research focuses on computational and mathematical ecology, with applications to plant physiological ecology, conservation biology, natural resource management, and landscape ecology.

#5200

Mikhail Shubin

#85522

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shubin was a Russian mathematician and professor at Northeastern University, as well as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He died in May 2020 at the age of 75. Work Shubin has written over 140 papers and books, and supervised almost twenty doctoral theses.

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