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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5651

Sture Holm

#115930

Overall Influence

#5652

Judith Curry

#19797

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, climate models, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She was a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee, published over a hundred scientific papers, and co-edited several major works. Curry retired from academia in 2017 at age 63, coinciding with her public climate change ...

#5653

Christophe Fraser

#104053

Overall Influence

Christophe Fraser is a professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Big Data Institute, part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Fraser's PhD and initial postdoctoral research were in theoretical particle physics. He converted to infectious disease epidemiology in 1998, based first at the University of Oxford then at Imperial College London, where he became Chair of Theoretical Epidemiology and served as deputy director of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling under director Neil Ferguson . He returned to the University of Oxford in 2016 as Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics at the Big Data Institute.

#5654

Martina Zähle

#105941

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Martina Zähle is a German mathematician specializing in geometric measure theory and stochastic geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Jena, where she holds the chair for geometry.

#5655

Ilya M. Sobol'

#107668

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

Ilya Meyerovich Sobol’ is a Russian mathematician, known for his work on Monte Carlo methods. His research spans several applications, from nuclear studies to astrophysics, and has contributed significantly to the field of sensitivity analysis.

#5656

Karine Beauchard

#60053

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Karine Beauchard is a French mathematician known for her research in control theory. She is a University Professor at the École normale supérieure de Rennes, and was the Peccot Lecturer of the Collège de France for 2007–2008.

#5657

Fumio Tajima

#116176

Overall Influence

#5658

Donna Testerman

#104603

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Donna Marie Testerman is a mathematician specializing in the representation theory of algebraic groups. She is a professor of mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

#5659

Sarah Glaz

#101202

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Sarah Glaz is a mathematician and mathematical poet. Her research specialty is commutative algebra; she is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Education and career Glaz was born in Bucharest, Romania, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She came to the US for her graduate education in mathematics, completing a Ph.D. in 1977 at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, Finiteness and Differential Properties of Ideals, was supervised by Wolmer Vasconcelos.

#5660

Jason Peter Fine

#116210

Overall Influence

#5661

Shri K. Singh

#116256

Overall Influence

S. K. Singh was a professor of mathematics from University of Missouri - Kansas City. He received his Ph.D. on the Entire and Meromorphic functions from Aligarh Muslim University in 1953. His advisor was S. M. Shah. Singh was one of the founder fathers and Head of the Department of Mathematics, Karnataka University, Dharwar.

#5662

David Mark

#35175

Overall Influence

1947 - 2022 (75 years)

David Mark was a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, USA. He made several contributions to research and education in Geographic Information Science , most recently in human spatial cognition and language.

#5663

Lilya Budaghyan

#107545

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Lilya Budaghyan is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway, where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication and leads Boolean functions team.

#5664

Antonio Galves

#85625

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jefferson Antonio Galves was a Brazilian mathematician, professor of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His field of studies was related to statistical models, in particular models that have stochasticity and variable range of memory. Galves was also the leader of NeuroMat, a research center established in 2013 at USP that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience.

#5665

Michael Backes

#58785

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Michael Backes is a German professor of computer science. He is the founding director and CEO of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. He is known for his work on formal methods, cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies.

#5666

K. S. Amur

#78653

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Krishna Shyamacharya Amur was a professor emeritus of mathematics in differential geometry was head of the department of mathematics, Karnatak University, Dharwar. Amur was vice-president of Karnatak Education Board, Dharwar. and a brother of G. S. Amur.

#5667

Emil Spjøtvoll

#72288

Overall Influence

1940 - 2002 (62 years)

Emil Oskar Spjøtvoll was a Norwegian mathematician and statistician. Early life Spjøtvoll was born in Hemne. He finished his secondary education in 1959 at Trondheim Cathedral School, took the cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo in 1962 and then the cand.real. degree in 1964. Spjøtvoll lectured at the university from 1965 to 1968, and in 1968 he took the dr.philos. degree with the thesis A Mixed Model in the Analysis of Variance. Optimal Properties.

#5668

Peter Richtarik

#83520

Overall Influence

Peter Richtarik is a Slovak mathematician and computer scientist working in the area of big data optimization and machine learning, known for his work on randomized coordinate descent algorithms, stochastic gradient descent and federated learning. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

#5669

Nikolai Andreev

#68275

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Nikolai Andreev is a Russian mathematician and popularizer of mathematics. He was awarded with the Leelavati Award in 2022. Biography Nikolai is the Head of the Laboratory for Popularization and Promotion of Mathematics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences . He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Moscow State University in 2000. Among his many highly valued projects by the Russian mathematical community is the creation of the online resource Mathematical Etudes.

#5670

Rudolf Gorenflo

#103610

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Rudolf Gorenflo was a German mathematician. Biography Gorenflo was born on July 31, 1930, in Friedrichstal, Germany. From 1950 to 1956 he attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from which he received his diploma in mathematics. From 1957 to 1961 he became a scientific assistant there and for a year later worked at Standard Electric Lorenz Company. From 1962 to 1970 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, at Garching not too far away from Munich. He was a resident in mathematics at the Technical University in Aachen in 1970 and a year later became a professor there.

#5671

Patricia Hersh

#101364

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Patricia Lynn Hersh is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics and other fields of mathematics.

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Paul A. Catlin

#115606

Overall Influence

1948 - 1995 (47 years)

Paul Allen Catlin was a mathematician, professor of mathematics who worked in graph theory and number theory. He wrote a significant paper on the series of chromatic numbers and Brooks' theorem, titled Hajós graph coloring conjecture: variations and counterexamples.

#5673

Loredana Lanzani

#106002

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Loredana Lanzani is an Italian-American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and complex analysis. She is a professor of mathematics at Syracuse University.

#5674

Edward Lawrence Kaplan

#116580

Overall Influence

#5675

Yang Le

#99094

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Yang Le was a Chinese mathematician. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Yang was born and raised in Nantong, Jiangsu. His father, Yang Jingyuan , was a businessman and deputy manager of Nantong Tongming Electric Company. His mother was named Zhou Jingjuan . He attended the First Primary School affiliated with Nantong Normal College and Nantong High School of Jiangsu Province. He was accepted to Peking University in 1956 and graduated in 1962. After college, he studied mathematics under Xiong Qinglai at the Institute of Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a...

#5676

Alexander L. Rosenberg

#95452

Overall Influence

1946 - 2012 (66 years)

Alexander Lvovich Rosenberg was a Russian-American mathematician who worked on functional analysis, representation theory and noncommutative algebraic geometry. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973, left the Soviet Union around 1987, and was a professor at Kansas State University until 2012.

#5677

Bohuslav Balcar

#116218

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Bohuslav Balcar was a Czech mathematician. He was a senior researcher at the Center for Theoretical Study , and a professor at Charles University in Prague. His research interests were mainly related to foundations of mathematics.

#5678

YanYan Li

#116671

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

YanYan Li is a Professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, specializing in elliptic partial differential equations. He received his Ph.D. at New York University in 1988, under the direction of Louis Nirenberg. He joined Rutgers University in 1990.

#5679

Thomas A. Hall

#116705

Overall Influence

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J. Jack Lee

#116722

Overall Influence

#5681

Dieter Riemann

#116751

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

#5682

Axel Börsch-Supan

#48458

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Axel Börsch-Supan is a German researcher, economist and director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany. He is Professor of Economics and Chair for the Economics of Aging at the Technical University of Munich. Additionally, he is Managing Director of SHARE-ERIC . An important field of his empirical research focuses on socio-political issues that are associated with economic aspects of demographic change and the aging of the population.

#5683

Yuri Nesterenko

Yuri Nesterenko

#116858

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko is a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has written papers in algebraic independence theory and transcendental number theory. In 1997, he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize for his proof that the numbers π and eπ are algebraically independent. In fact, he proved the stronger result:the numbers π, eπ, and Γ are algebraically independent over Q., and Γ are algebraically independent over Q.for all positive integers n are algebraically independent over Q.He is a professor at Moscow State University, where he completed the mechanical-mathematical program in 1969, then...

#5684

John Stuart Garrow

#116865

Overall Influence

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Anne M. Leggett

#102347

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Anne Marie Leggett is an American mathematical logician. She is an associate professor emerita of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. Leggett is the editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics , a position she has held continuously since 1977. She has served on the Executive Committee of the AWM since 1977 and the AWM Policy and Advocacy Committee . With Bettye Anne Case, she is the editor of the book Complexities: Women in Mathematics . Leggett received an Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for Complexities in 2006.

#5686

Sigve Tjøtta

#49126

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Sigve Tjøtta was a Norwegian mathematician. Early life He was born in Klepp. He took the cand.real. degree in 1954 and the dr.philos. degree in 1960, both at the University of Oslo. His doctoral thesis was On Some Non-linear Effects in Sound Fields, with Special Emphasis on the Generation of Vorticity and the Formation of Streaming Patterns. He worked as a research assistant in Oslo from 1954 to 1956, 1957 to 1958 and 1959 to 1960. In between he studied at Brown University from 1956 to 1957 and at the Max Planck Institute. Among his advisors were Johan Peter Holtsmark.

#5687

Jan de Leeuw

#87287

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Jan de Leeuw is a Dutch statistician and psychometrician. He is distinguished professor emeritus of statistics and founding chair of the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, he is the founding editor and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Software, as well as the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.

#5688

Toshio Nakagawa

#116919

Overall Influence

#5689

Zdeněk Hedrlín

#96610

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Zdeněk Hedrlín was a Czech mathematician, specializing in universal algebra and combinatorial theory, both in pure and applied mathematics. Zdeněk Hedrlín received his PhD from Prague's Charles University in 1963. His thesis on commutative semigroups was supervised by Miroslav Katětov. Hedrlín held the title of Docent at Charles University. There he worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics for over 60 years until he died at age 85. He was among the first Czech mathematicians to do research on category theory.

#5690

Renata Mansini

#50065

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Renata Mansini is an Italian applied mathematician, economist, and operations researcher known for her research on problems in mathematical optimization including portfolio optimization and vehicle routing. She is a professor of operations research at the University of Brescia.

#5691

Erica N. Walker

#101138

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Erica Nicole Walker is an American mathematician and the Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology and as the Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. Walker’s research focuses on the "social and cultural factors as well as educational policies and practices that facilitate mathematics engagement, learning and performance, especially for underserved students".

#5692

J. N. Srivastava

#88245

Overall Influence

1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Jagdish Narain Srivastava was an Indian-born mathematician, statistician and a professor at Colorado State University. Srivastava is known for the research in the area of Design of experiments, Multivariate analysis and Combinatorial mathematics. Srivastava was a Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

#5693

Christian Pommerenke

#117049

Overall Influence

#5694

Samuel Greenhouse

#109449

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Samuel W. Greenhouse was an American statistician who helped to pioneer the use of statistics in epidemiology. With Seymour Geisser, he developed the Greenhouse–Geisser correction, which is now widely used in the analysis of variance to correct for violations of the assumption of compound symmetry.

#5695

Serge Cantat

#54665

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Serge Marc Cantat is a French mathematician, specializing in geometry and dynamical systems. Cantat received his PhD under the supervision of Étienne Ghys in 1999 at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Cantat is a directeur de recherche of CNRS at the Institut de recherches mathématiques de Rennes . He was previously directeur de recherche of CNRS at ENS Paris.

#5696

John Britton

#90876

Overall Influence

1927 - 1994 (67 years)

John Leslie Britton was an English mathematician from Yorkshire who worked in combinatorial group theory and was an expert on the word problem for groups. Britton was a member of the London Mathematical Society and was Secretary of Meetings and Membership with that organization from 1973-1976.

#5697

Jimmie Don Lawson

#117126

Overall Influence

#5698

Frank Hoppensteadt

#80950

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Frank Charles Hoppensteadt is an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical biology and dynamical systems. Frank Hoppensteadt studied physics and mathematics at Butler University with bachelor's degree in 1960. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he received in 1962 his master's degree and in 1965 his PhD with thesis Singular perturbations on the infinite interval under the supervision of Fred Guenther Brauer and Wolfgang Wasow. From 1965 Hoppensteadt was an assistant professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing. From 1968 he was an associate professor and later a professor at New York University's Courant Institute until his resignation in 1979.

#5699

Paolo Nason

#117176

Overall Influence

#5700

Jan Brinkhuis

#83091

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Jan Brinkhuis is a Dutch mathematician, and Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, specialized in the theory and application of optimization theory and game theory.

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