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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5501

Gerda Claeskens

#94927

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Gerda Claeskens is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, associated with the KU Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics .

#5502

Eric de Sturler

#69925

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Eric de Sturler is a Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is on the editorial board of Applied Numerical Mathematics and the Open Applied Mathematics Journal. Prof. de Sturler completed his Ph.D. under the direction of Henk van der Vorst at Technische Universiteit Delft in 1994. His thesis is entitled Iterative Methods on Distributive Memory Computers. He was a second-place winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997. His research focuses on preconditioned iterative methods for solving linear and nonlinear systems, with applications in comput...

#5503

B. V. Shah

#81481

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Babubhai V. Shah , professor of statistics, was a chief scientist at Research Triangle Institute from 1966 till he retired in 2003. He held several positions with RTI and Research Triangle Park for over four decades. B. V. Shah was responsible for the development of the SUDAAN software; to recognize his contributions, RTI has dedicated the current release of SUDAAN to B. V. Shah. During that time, he was also part of the academia of biostatistics department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C.

#5504

Daniel Zelinsky

#106073

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

Daniel Zelinsky was an American mathematician, specializing in algebra. Zelinsky studied at the University of Chicago with bachelor's degree in 1941. From 1941 to 1943 he was a research mathematician in Columbia University's applied mathematics group, in which he was the youngest member. He was from 1943 to 1944 an instructor at the University of Chicago, where he received in 1943 his PhD under A. A. Albert with thesis Integral sets of quasiquaternion algebras. Zelinsky worked from 1944 to 1946 for the applied mathematics group of Columbia University and from 1946 to 1947 as an instructor at the University of Chicago.

#5505

Jane-Ling Wang

#104867

Overall Influence

Jane-Ling Wang is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging. Education and career Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. She earned a master's of arts in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1982, obtained a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.

#5506

Mariano Giaquinta

#112191

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Mariano Giaquinta , is an Italian mathematician mainly known for his contributions to the fields of calculus of variations and regularity theory of partial differential equation. He is currently professor of Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and he is the director of De Giorgi center at Pisa.

#5507

Leo Sario

#106678

Overall Influence

1916 - 2009 (93 years)

Leo Reino Sario was a Finnish-born mathematician who worked on complex analysis and Riemann surfaces. Early life and education After service as a Finnish artillery officer in the Winter War and World War II, he received his PhD in 1948 under Rolf Nevanlinna at the University of Helsinki.

#5508

Ruth Kellerhals

#104796

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Ruth Kellerhals is a Swiss mathematician at the University of Fribourg, whose field of study is hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities. Biography As a child, she went to a gymnasium in Basel and then studied at the University of Basel, graduating in 1982 with a diploma directed by Heinz Huber "On finiteness of the isometry group of a compact negatively curved Riemannian manifold". She received her PhD in 1988, from the same university, with a thesis entitled "On the volumes of hyperbolic polytopes in dimensions three and four". Her advisor was Hans-Christoph Im Hof.

#5509

Felix Arscott

#100817

Overall Influence

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

Felix Medland Arscott was a British mathematician who was a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from 1976. He was described by colleagues as a good friend and excellent teacher. Dr. Arscott was the founding head of the Applied Mathematics department at University of Manitoba from 1974 through 1986 and was named Professor Emeritus in 1995. Professor Arscott was described as an expert in the "higher special functions".

#5510

Vladimir Mironenko

Vladimir Mironenko

#103357

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Uladzimir Ivanavich Mironenka is a Belarusian mathematician. Biography In 1964 Uladzimir Ivanavich graduated from Mogilev State University, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. In 1970 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Embeddable Systems". In 1975 approved in the rank of associate professor and in 1992 in the rank of professor.

#5511

Sergei B. Kuksin

#105262

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Sergei Borisovich Kuksin is a French and Russian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations . Kuksin received his doctorate under the supervision of Mark Vishik at Moscow State University in 1981. He was at the Steklov Institute in Moscow and at the Heriot-Watt University and is a directeur de recherché at the Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu of the Paris Diderot University .

#5512

Ruth Silverman

#91915

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Ruth Silverman was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.

#5513

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

#99455

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Bozenna Janina Pasik-Duncan is a Polish-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. Research Pasik-Duncan's research concerns stochastic control and its applications in communications, economics, and health science. She is also interested in mathematics education, particularly for women in STEM fields.

#5514

Christian Soize

#66412

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Christian Soize is a French engineer and applied mathematician known for his contributions in computational mechanics and uncertainty quantification. He is Full Professor at the Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle at Gustave Eiffel University.

#5515

Dimiter Skordev

Dimiter Skordev

#29230

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Dimiter Skordev is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Logic and Applications, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Sofia. Chairman of the department in 1972-2000. Doyen and pioneer of mathematical logic research in Bulgaria who developed a Bulgarian school in the theory of computability, namely the algebraic recursion theory. He was the 1981 winner of Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics, bestowed for his monograph Combinatory Spaces and Recursiveness in Them.

#5516

Henk G. Sol

#24319

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Henk Gerard Sol is a Dutch organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor of Business Engineering and ICT at Groningen University. His research focuses on the development of services enabled by ICT, management information systems, decision enhancement and telematics.

#5517

Ralph Grimaldi

#98034

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Ralph Peter Grimaldi is an American mathematician specializing in discrete mathematics who is a full professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is known for his textbook Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction , first published in 1985 and now in its fifth edition, and his numerous research papers.

#5518

Alessandra Carbone

#68745

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Alessandra Carbone is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. She is a professor in the computer science department of the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Since 2009 she has headed the laboratory of computational and quantitative biology. This laboratory studies the function and evolution of biological systems. She is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2010.

#5519

Laurence Broze

#74757

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Laurence Broze is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Lille in France. From 2012 to 2018 she was president of l'association femmes et mathématiques, a French association for women in mathematics.

#5520

Daniel Kammen

#44192

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Daniel Merson Kammen is an American scientist, renewable energy expert, and former government figure. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a dual appointment at the university's Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy.

#5521

Clayton Vernon Deutsch

#112616

Overall Influence

#5522

Otto Buggisch

#101689

Overall Influence

1910 - 1991 (81 years)

Otto Buggisch was a German mathematician who, during World War II, was a cryptanalyst working in the cipher bureau, the Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht responsible for deciphering of the opposing forces Communications. He also dealt with the security control of own key procedures. Through research and revelations exposed by two Polish officers, late in the war, he recognized the true cryptographic weaknesses of the Enigma rotor cipher, key machine used by the German armed forces to encrypt their secret communications, in World War II.

#5523

John Stephen Roy Chisholm

#91428

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

J. S. R. Chisholm was an English mathematical physicist. He was Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he worked from its founding in 1965 until 1994. Before that he held positions at the University of Glasgow and Cardiff following which he was appointed Dublin University Professor of Natural Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin . He held BA and PhD degrees from Cambridge.

#5524

Hossein Zakeri

#100977

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Hossein Zakeri , Prof. Dr. is an Iranian mathematician. He, along with Prof. R. Y. Sharp, are the founders of generalized fractions, a branch in theory of commutative algebra which expands the concept of fractions in commutative rings by introducing the modules of generalized fractions. This topic later found applications in local cohomology, in the monomial conjecture, and other branches of commutative algebra.

#5525

Oleksandr Sharkovsky

#104195

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky was a Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR , and academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . Prize laureate of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after M. M. Bogolyubov and M. O. Lavretiev.

#5526

Michael Allen Stephens

#112720

Overall Influence

#5527

George Marinescu

#95267

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

George Marinescu is a Romanian mathematician, specializing in complex geometry, global analysis, and spectral theory. Marinescu received from the University of Bucharest in 1988 his baccalaureate degree and in 1989 his master's degree. He graduated in 1994 with Ph.D. from Paris Diderot University with thesis under the supervision of Louis Boutet de Monvel. Marinescu was a postdoc from 1997 to 1998 at the University of Edinburgh, from 1998 to 1999 at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, and from 1999 to 2000 at the Humboldt University of Berlin, completing there his habilitation qualification in 2005.

#5528

Yihui Xie

#58775

Overall Influence

Yihui Xie is a Chinese statistician, data scientist and software engineer for RStudio. He is the principal author of the open-source software package Knitr for data analysis in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.

#5529

Hiroshi Umemura

#55474

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Hiroshi Umemura was a Japanese mathematician and honored professor at Nagoya University. He was a prominent figure in the field of algebraic geometry and differential equations. Biography Umemura was born in Nagoya in 1944. He graduated from Nagoya University in 1967. At the beginning of his career, Umemura primarily studied the subgroups of the Cremona group. In the 1980s, while visiting the University of Strasbourg, he began studying Painlevé equations, particularly Galois theory. In 1996, Umemura wrote his first of multiple papers on Galois theory, which was influential in the community surrounding Painlevé equations in Japan.

#5530

Hans J. Reiter

#81534

Overall Influence

1921 - 1992 (71 years)

Hans Jakob Reiter was an Austrian mathematician working in analysis. Because of the Anschluss, Hans Reiter had to leave his hometown before his Matura. Via Italy he was able to emigrate to Brazil, where he studied under André Weil. In 1953 he received his PhD from Rice University under Szolem Mandelbrojt with thesis Investigations in harmonic analysis. In 1952 he became an assistant at the University of Vienna and in 1971 obtained a professorial chair there, after years in various foreign academic positions, including an interval from 1964 to 1971 as a professor at the University of Utrecht. ...

#5531

Nancy Obuchowski

#100606

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Nancy A. Obuchowski is an American biostatistician whose research concerns the accuracy of image-based medical diagnoses, including the use of nonparametric statistics, receiver operating characteristic curves, and accounting for the effects of clustered data in this application. She works at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as vice chair of Quantitative Health Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. She is also a professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

#5532

E Richard Stanley

#112858

Overall Influence

#5533

Pratim Biswas

#52576

Overall Influence

Pratim Biswas is currently the Dean of Engineering, University of Miami, since January 2021. He was the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, Asst. Vice Chancellor for International Programs, and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also Director of MAGEEP, the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership. He received his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1985, and his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1980.

#5534

Helmut Schwichtenberg

#53307

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Helmut Schwichtenberg is a German mathematical logician. Schwichtenberg studied mathematics from 1961 at the FU Berlin and from 1964 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1968 from Dieter Rödding. He then worked as an assistant and then as a professor in Münster, and since 1978 has been professor of mathematical logic at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich .

#5535

Yoshikazu Giga

#112934

Overall Influence

#5536

Zhilan Feng

#88682

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Zhilan Julie Feng is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

#5537

Hongyu Zhao

#112947

Overall Influence

#5538

Jatikumar K. Sengupta

#112948

Overall Influence

#5539

Robert McCann

#102825

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Robert John McCann is a Canadian mathematician, known for his work in transportation theory. He has worked as a professor at the University of Toronto since 1998, and as Canada Research Chair in Mathematics, Economics, and Physics since 2020.

#5540

Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas

#99570

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential geometry and singularity theory. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo. Education and career Ruas was born on 5 January 1948, in Lins, São Paulo. She became interested in mathematics through a junior high school mathematics teacher, Râmisa Jorge, and after entering university study in 1967, earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1970 through what is now the Faculty of Science and Letters of the Araraquara campus of São Paulo State University.

#5541

Barry Brook

#31562

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Barry William Brook is an Australian scientist. He is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology. He was formerly an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change from 2007 to 2014. He was also Director of Climate Science at the Environment Institute.

#5542

Luk Van Wassenhove

#100998

Overall Influence

Luk van Wassenhove is a management thinker and educator. He is a professor of technology operations management at INSEAD, where he holds the Henry Ford Chaired Professorship in Manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Humanitarian Research Group and a Fellow of CEDEP, the European Center for Executive Education, based in France.

#5543

David Nadler

#89262

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

David Erie Nadler is an American mathematician who specializes in geometric representation theory and symplectic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and career Nadler graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in mathematics in 1996. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University under the supervision of Robert MacPherson, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2001. He worked as an instructor at the University of Chicago for several years before taking a tenure track position at Northwestern University in 2005, where he became a Full Professor in 2011.

#5544

Sheila Oates Williams

#97546

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Sheila Oates Williams is a British and Australian mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is the namesake of the Oates–Powell theorem in group theory, and a winner of the B. H. Neumann Award.

#5545

Khairulla Murtazin

#24664

Overall Influence

1941 - 2016 (75 years)

Murtazin Khairulla Khabibullovich was a Russian mathematician. Since 1978 he has been the Head of the Chair of Mathematical analysis Bashkir State University. Biography Murtazin was born in the village Aznash in Uchalinsky District, now in Bashkortostan. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Bashkir State University and defended his doctoral thesis in 1994. Since 1978 until the present day he is the head of the Mathematical Analysis chair of the department

#5546

Joost-Pieter Katoen

#82892

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Joost-Pieter Katoen is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist based in Germany. He is distinguished professor in Computer Science and head of the Software Modeling and Verification Group at RWTH Aachen University. Furthermore, he is part-time associated to the Formal Methods & Tools group at the University of Twente.

#5547

Ricardo Pérez-Marco

#101702

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Ricardo Pérez-Marco is a Spanish mathematician at the Université Paris XIII. He won the 1996 EMS Prize for his work on dynamical systems. Born in Barcelona, Pérez-Marco studied at the École Normale Supérieure. He then earned his doctorate from Université de Paris-Sud in 1990, under supervision of Jean-Christophe Yoccoz.

#5548

Mary McCammon

#95058

Overall Influence

1928 - 2008 (80 years)

Mary Lister McCammon was a British mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University. She was the first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London, which she did in 1953.

#5549

Douglas L Arnold

#113277

Overall Influence

#5550

Barbara Reys

#99026

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Barbara Jean Bestgen Reys is an American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation, for her mathematics textbooks, and for her leadership in developing curriculum standards for elementary school mathematics education. She is Curators Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

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