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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5551

Pyotr Ulyanov

#113338

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Pyotr Lavrentyevich Ulyanov was a Russian mathematician working on analysis. After graduating from Saratov State University in 1950, Ulyanov studied at Moscow State University, where he received in 1953 his Russian Candidate of Sciences degree under the supervision of Nina Bari. In 1960 at Moscow State University he received his Russian Doctor of Science degree and became a professor. There from 1979 he headed the department of function theory and functional analysis. From 1957 he also worked at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics.

#5552

David Weber

#4110

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first novel, which he worked on with Steve White, sold in 1989 to Baen Books. Baen remains Weber's major publisher.

#5553

Hélène Barcelo

#96044

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Hélène Barcelo is a mathematician from Québec specializing in algebraic combinatorics. Within that field, her interests include combinatorial representation theory, homotopy theory, and arrangements of hyperplanes. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Arizona State University, and deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute . She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, from 2001 to 2009.

#5554

David F. Anderson

#92709

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

David F. Anderson is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Education Anderson received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2005. Anderson received his B.A. in Mathematics from The University of Virginia in 2000. Anderson graduated from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School in 1996.

#5555

Henry Pogorzelski

#44044

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Henry Andrew Pogorzelski was an American mathematician of Polish descent, a professor of mathematics at the University of Maine. Much of Pogorzelski's research concerns the Goldbach conjecture, the still-unsolved problem of whether every even number can be represented as a sum of two prime numbers.

#5556

Simon Nicholas Cousens

#113459

Overall Influence

#5557

Catherine Cavagnaro

#105103

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Catherine Elizabeth Cavagnaro is an American mathematician and aviator. She is a professor of mathematics at Sewanee: The University of the South, specializing in geometric topology and combinatorial group theory, and is co-editor of the Dictionary of Classical and Theoretical Mathematics. She is also a former record-holder in consecutive spins of an airplane, has been repeatedly recognized by the General Aviation Awards Program for her contributions to flight safety and instruction, and is listed in the Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame.

#5558

Ronald V. Book

#44948

Overall Influence

1937 - 1997 (60 years)

Ronald Vernon Book was a theoretical computer scientist. He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

#5559

Aslak Tveito

#59182

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Aslak Tveito is a Norwegian scientist in the field of numerical analysis and scientific computing. Tveito is the Managing Director of the Simula Research Laboratory, a Norwegian research center owned by the Norwegian Government, and is Professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oslo.

#5560

Ralph B. Jr. D’agostino

#113505

Overall Influence

#5561

Jerome Levine

#100070

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

Jerome Paul Levine was a mathematician who contributed to the understanding of knot theory. Education and career Born in New York City, Levine received his B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1962, studying under Norman Steenrod. He began his career as an instructor at M.I.T., after which he spent a year at the University of Cambridge under a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. He became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, and in 1966 he left for Brandeis University. His early work helped to develop surgery as a powerful tool in knot theory and in geometric topology.

#5562

Vadim Schechtman

#108216

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Vadim V. Schechtman is a Russian mathematician who teaches in Toulouse. Schechtman received in 1979 from Moscow State University his doctorate under the supervision of Evgeny Golod. Schechtman was an academic at Moscow State University in the 1980s and at Stony Brook University in the 1990s. He is a now a professor at Paul Sabatier University .

#5563

Adam Logan

#94759

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Adam Logan is a research mathematician and a top Canadian Scrabble player. He won the World Scrabble Championship in 2005, beating Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand 3–0 in the final. He is the only player to have won the Canadian Scrabble Championship five times . He was also the winner of the 1996 National Scrabble Championship, North America's top rated player in 1997, and the winner of the Collins division of the 2014 North American Scrabble Championship.

#5564

Tatjana Stykel

#102577

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Tatjana Stykel is a Russian mathematician who works as a professor of computational mathematics in the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research interests include numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic systems of equations.

#5565

Anry Nersessian

#101146

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Anry Nersessian is an Armenian mathematician, specializing in differential and integral equations, functional and numerical analysis. He is known for fractional derivatives introduced by the joint work with Mkhitar Djrbashian. Separately, M. Caputo considered the same modification of Riemann–Liouville integral, which is why the fractional derivative is known as Caputo, Djrbashian-Caputo or Caputo-Djrbashian derivative.

#5566

Beno Arbel

#78638

Overall Influence

1939 - 2013 (74 years)

Been Arbel was an Israeli mathematician and historian of mathematics who worked as Professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University. Biography Born in Drăgănești-Olt, Romania, Arbel began his academic studies at the University of Bucharest, which he continued at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem upon immigrating to Israel in 1961. He completed his baccalaureate in mathematics and physics there in 1963, and his master's degree in mathematics in April 1965 , a month after which he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces. Arbel received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Hebrew University under Marcel Her...

#5567

Mark Braverman

#77169

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Mark Braverman is an Israeli mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He was awarded an EMS Prize in 2016 as well as Presburger Award in the same year. In 2019, he was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award. In 2022 he won the IMU Abacus Medal.

#5568

Susie W. Håkansson

#99095

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Susie Wong Håkansson is known for her work in mathematics education, teacher preparation and professional development. Since 1999, she has been Executive Director of the California Mathematics Project.

#5569

Christoph Erwin Minder

#113717

Overall Influence

#5570

Marcia P. Sward

#86615

Overall Influence

1939 - 2008 (69 years)

Marcia Peterson Sward was an American mathematician and nonprofit organization administrator. She had a varied career as a teacher and an administrator of mathematical organizations, culminating in the position of Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America. After retirement she started a new career in environmental education, specializing in children's programs such as GreenKids.

#5571

Giulia Di Nunno

#96835

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Giulia Di Nunno is an Italian mathematician specializing in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo, with an adjunct appointment at the Norwegian School of Economics.

#5572

Ann E. Bailie

#93831

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Dorothy Ann Eckels Bailie is an American mathematician who worked at Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1950s and 1960s. She was one of the three authors of the 1959 report establishing Earth's shape as asymmetrical and "pear-shaped", based on data from Vanguard 1.

#5573

Laurence S. Freedman

#113812

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

#5574

Oscar H. Ibarra

#113815

Overall Influence

#5575

Simon Godsill

#94317

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Simon John Godsill is professor of statistical signal processing at the University of Cambridge, and a professorial fellow at Corpus Christi College. He is also a member of the Centre for Science and Policy. His main area of research is Bayesian statistics and stochastic sampling methodologies, particularly particle filtering.

#5576

Anthony James Merrill Spencer

#113851

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

Anthony James Merrill Spencer FRS was an applied mathematician whose main field of research was in understanding and predicting the mechanical behaviour of advanced materials. Awards and honours Spencer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.

#5577

Philippe J. Flajolet

#113889

Overall Influence

#5578

Alexander Mielke

#113896

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

#5579

Isabelle Bloch

#113929

Overall Influence

#5580

Edward Odell

#104789

Overall Influence

1947 - 2013 (66 years)

Edward "Ted" Wilfred Odell, Jr. was an American mathematician, specializing in the theory of Banach spaces. Odell received in 1969 in his B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and in 1975 his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under William Buhmann Johnson. From 1975 to 1977 Odell was a Josiah Willard Gibbs Instructor at Yale University. He became in 1977 an assistant professor, in 1981 an associate professor, and in 1990 a full professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the author or coauthor of 84 articles.

#5581

Lieven Verschaffel

#113950

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

#5582

Wim b. Van Den Berg

#113961

Overall Influence

#5583

Jenő Szép

#103340

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Jenő Szép was a Hungarian mathematician and professor at the University of Economics, Budapest . His main research interests were group theory and game theory. He was a founder of the journal Pure Mathematics and Applications . The Zappa–Szép product in group theory is named after him and Guido Zappa.

#5584

Dwight Duffus

#78260

Overall Influence

Dwight Albert Duffus is a Canadian-American mathematician, the Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory University and editor-in-chief of the journal Order. Duffus did his undergraduate studies at the University of Regina, graduating in 1974; he received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Calgary under the supervision of Ivan Rival.

#5585

James T. Randerson

#114012

Overall Influence

#5586

E. Allen Emerson

#114049

Overall Influence

#5587

Mikhail Menshikov

#111624

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov is a Russian-British mathematician with publications in areas ranging from probability to combinatorics. He currently holds the post of Professor in the University of Durham.

#5588

Lisa Lorentzen

#100206

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Lisa Lorentzen is a Norwegian mathematician known for her work on continued fractions. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology .

#5589

Gisela Engeln-Müllges

#93463

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Gisela Engeln-Müllges is a German mathematician and artist. She is a professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, where she is also a former vice rector for research, development, and technology.

#5590

Věra Kůrková

#60573

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Věra Kůrková is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist, affiliated with the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include neural networks, computational learning theory, and nonlinear approximation theory. She formulated the abstract concept of a variational norm in 1997 which puts ideas of Maurey, Jones, and Barron into the context of functional analysis. See V. Kůrková, Dimension-independent rates of approximation by neural networks. In: Warwick, K., Karny, M. Computer-Intensive Methods in Control and Signal Processing. The Curse of Dimensionality, Birkhauser, Boston, MA, pp. 261–270 .

#5591

John William Helton

#109674

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

John William "Bill" Helton is a professor emeritus of mathematics from the University of California at San Diego. Helton is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has worked in the fields of operator theory, Hilbert space operators, control theory, algebraic geometry, and noncommutative computer algebra during his career. He organized the first International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications which has spawned revolutionary cross-discipline research for over forty years.

#5592

Sanford L. Segal

#100048

Overall Influence

1937 - 2010 (73 years)

Sanford Leonard Segal was a mathematician and historian of science and mathematics at the University of Rochester. Mathematically he specialized in analytic number theory, and complex analysis. He wrote the textbook Nine Introductions in Complex Analysis , and the tome Mathematicians Under the Nazis , a historical recount from that period. He also taught courses in women's studies, and nuclear arms. He was on the Committee of Actuarial Studies at the University of Rochester.

#5593

Serge Rivest

#114305

Overall Influence

#5594

Rien Kaashoek

#83203

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Marinus Adriaan "Rien" Kaashoek is a Dutch mathematician, and Emeritus Professor Analysis and Operator Theory at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Biography Born in Ridderkerk, Kaashoek has studied mathematics at the Leiden University, where he received his Phd in 1964 under supervision of Adriaan Zaanen.

#5595

Lone Simonsen

#82716

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Lone Simonsen is a Danish epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences. Since the beginning of 2020, she has been the director of PandemiX, an interdisciplinary pandemic research center at Roskilde University. In 2023 PandemiX was established as a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

#5596

Tianxi Cai

#75378

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Tianxi Cai is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.

#5597

Joanne Katz

#96595

Overall Influence

Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology . Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries.

#5598

Tata Subba Rao

#105719

Overall Influence

1942 - 2018 (76 years)

Tata Subba Rao Subba Rao retired, but was given an emeritus chair, in 2009 having worked at UMIST and the University of Manchester for 42 years. He published over 70 papers and supervised 15 PhD students. Even after retirement he remained active.

#5599

Brunangelo Falini

#112115

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Brunangelo Falini is an Italian hematologist, academic and researcher. He is a Full Professor of Hematology, and Head of the Institute of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at University of Perugia.

#5600

Ulla Pursiheimo

#102087

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Ulla Irmeli Pursiheimo is a Finnish mathematician who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland. Her areas of interest in mathematics include mathematical optimization, control theory, search games, and later in her career mathematics education.

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