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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5701

Erika Tatiana Camacho

#95908

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Erika Tatiana Camacho is a Mexican-born American mathematical biologist and professor of applied mathematics at Arizona State University. She is a 2014 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring awardee. She was taught and mentored in high school by Jaime Escalante, who was the subject of the movie Stand and Deliver.

#5702

Christopher H. Schmid

#109486

Overall Influence

Christopher H. Schmid is a Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health. Schmid was a founding member formerly Co-Director of Brown's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health.

#5703

Susan Brown

#83483

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Susan North Brown was a professor of mathematics at University College London and a leading researcher in the field of fluid mechanics. Background and employment An exact timeline for Susan Brown's career has been difficult to pin down, but a newsletter published by Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UCL shortly after her death offers a framework for her career achievements and highlights the esteem in which she was held by colleagues and students. Her undergraduate degree in mathematics was from St Hilda's College, Oxford. For about two years more years she continued studi...

#5704

Sally C. Morton

#52686

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Sally C. Morton is an American statistician specializing in comparative effectiveness research. In 2021, Morton joined Arizona State University as executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise, the administrative subdivision of Arizona State involving university research. Morton is also a professor in the College of Health Solutions and the School of Mathematical Statistical Sciences and holds the Florence Ely Nelson Chair at Arizona State.

#5705

Mila Nikolova

#102348

Overall Influence

1962 - 2018 (56 years)

Mila Nikolova was a Bulgarian applied mathematician, known for her research in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing. Education and career After working as a science journalist and engineer in Bulgaria, Nikolova completed a Ph.D. in 1995 in signal and image processing at the University of Paris-Sud. In 2006, she earned a habilitation in mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University.

#5706

Samuel Kou

#113495

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Shingchang "Samuel" Kou is a Chinese American statistician and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at Peking University. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at Stanford University under Bradley Efron. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University.

#5707

Philip Treisman

#40059

Overall Influence

Philip Uri Treisman is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. He is the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with pioneering the Emerging Scholars Program , aimed at helping students from underprivileged backgrounds excel in calculus and other courses in science. The program was first implemented at the University of California, Berkeley and has now disseminated throughout college campuses across the United States. His efforts to improve American education have been recognized by Newsweek...

#5708

William Kirwan

#23364

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

William English "Brit" Kirwan is an American university administrator and mathematician who is chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Most recently, Kirwan served as chancellor of USM from 2002 to 2015. Previously, Kirwan worked at the University of Maryland, College Park from the 1960s to 1990s as a professor, administrator, and eventually president and was president of the Ohio State University from 1998 to 2002.

#5709

Joel Brawley

#103653

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Joel Vincent Brawley, Jr. is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University. Brawley is reputed nationally for being a prolific mathematics educator and is regarded highly for his teaching abilities. Brawley is also a prominent researcher in the field of algebra, specifically finite fields.

#5710

Anatoly Zhigljavsky

#81066

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zhigljavsky is a professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University. He has authored 12 monographs and over 150 papers in refereed journals. His research interests include stochastic and high-dimensional global optimisation, time series analysis, multivariate data analysis, statistical modeling in market research, probabilistic methods in search and number theory.

#5711

Mark Wilde

#109458

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Mark McMahon Wilde is an American quantum information scientist. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and he is also a Fields Member in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics and the Department of Computer Science at Cornell.

#5712

Jacquelien Scherpen

#107845

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Jacquelien Maria Aleida Scherpen is a Dutch applied mathematician specializing in nonlinear control theory. She is a professor in the faculty of science and engineering at the University of Groningen, director of the Groningen Engineering Center, and former scientific director of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen .

#5713

Alexei Borisovich Aleksandrov

#113834

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Alexei Borisovich Aleksandrov, is a Russian mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Aleksandrov received in 1979 his Russian candidate degree from the Leningrad State University under Victor Havin with thesis Hardy Classes Hp for p∈

#5714

Xiaonan Ma

#113074

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory. Career Xiaonan Ma obtained his Bachelor-Diploma from the University of Wuhan and received his Ph.D. in 1998 under the direction of Jean-Michel Bismut at the University of Paris-Sud with a thesis entitled Formes de torsion analytique et familles de submersions. He was a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS from 2001 to 2007, working at the Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz of the École Polytechnique. After the habilitation in 2005 he became a professor at the Uni...

#5715

Yewande Olubummo

#42097

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Yewande Olubummo is a Nigerian-American mathematician whose research interests include functional analysis and dynamical systems. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Spelman College, where she served as chair of the mathematics department from 2006 to 2010. She is a member of the National Association of Mathematicians, as well as the Mathematical Association of America.

#5716

Gerardo Chowell

#99378

Overall Influence

Gerardo Chowell is professor of mathematical epidemiology and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. He grew up in Colima, Mexico, where he became interested in mathematics as a child. He graduated from the University of Colima in 2001 before beginning the summer program at Cornell University's Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute. He later decided to enroll in the Ph.D. program at Cornell, which he completed in 2005 under the supervision of Carlos Castillo-Chavez.

#5717

David Balding

#51717

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

David Balding is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Melbourne, and Director of Melbourne Integrative Genomics , having previously been the founding senior appointment at the UCL Genetics Institute in London. He was educated at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Oxford, UK, and is editor of the Handbook of Statistical Genetics.

#5718

Natashia Boland

#88555

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Natashia Lesley Boland is a professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Boland completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1992, and afterwards she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo in Canada, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA. She spent 13 years at the University of Melbourne and then from 2008 to 2014 worked at the University of Newcastle. She has made contributions to transportation scheduling, modeling of infrastructure networks, planning pricing strategies for demand, and optimization for environmental modeling.

#5719

Joachim von zur Gathen

#95847

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Joachim von zur Gathen is a German and computer scientist. His research spans several areas in mathematics and computer science, including computational complexity, cryptography, finite fields, and computer algebra.

#5720

Peter Gzowski

#10151

Overall Influence

1934 - 2002 (68 years)

Peter John Gzowski , known colloquially as "Mr. Canada", or "Captain Canada", was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and Morningside. His first biographer argued that Gzowski's contribution to Canadian media must be considered in the context of efforts by a generation of Canadian nationalists to understand and express Canada's cultural identity. Gzowski wrote books, hosted television shows, and worked at a number of newspapers and at Maclean's magazine. Gzowski was known for a friendly, warm, interviewing s...

#5721

Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi

#101978

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her research in graph theory and algorithms on graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Clemson University.

#5722

Stephen M. Robinson

#117791

Overall Influence

#5723

Rebecca Betensky

#70414

Overall Influence

Rebecca A. Betensky is a professor of biostatistics and chair of the department of biostatistics at New York University's School of Global Public Health. Previously, she was a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she directed the biostatistics program for the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. She was also a biostatistician for Massachusetts General Hospital, where she directed the biostatistics core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

#5724

Thomas S. Kupper

#96482

Overall Influence

Thomas S. Kupper is an American physician, academic, and clinician. His work with clinical and research experience spans dermatology, cutaneous oncology, and immunology. He is the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Professor at Harvard Medical School, and chairs the Departments of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He also leads the Cutaneous Oncology Disease Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

#5725

Ruth Pfeiffer

#109699

Overall Influence

Ruth Maria Pfeiffer is a biostatistician who researches risk prediction, molecular and genetic epidemiology, and electronic medical records. She is a senior investigator in the biostatistics branch at the National Cancer Institute. Pfeiffer is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the American Statistical Association.

#5726

Ashot Petrosian

Ashot Petrosian

#71209

Overall Influence

1930 - 1998 (68 years)

Ashot Vezirovich Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian mathematician. He completed his PhD in Computational Mathematics in 1964 under the supervision of Julius Anatolyevich Schrader. He was a founding member of the Mergelyan Institute of Mathematical Machines and the Computing Center of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. He also contributed to the development of several generations of advanced digital computer systems in Armenia, including the Nairi and ES EVM.

#5727

Ramon C. Littell

#117860

Overall Influence

#5728

Gerold M. Grodsky

#117868

Overall Influence

#5729

Irene Sabadini

#109274

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Irene Maria Sabadini is an Italian mathematician specializing in complex analysis, hypercomplex analysis and the analysis of superoscillations. She is a professor of mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan, and head of the department of mathematics there.

#5730

Gunter Malle

#109232

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Gunter Malle is a German mathematician, specializing in group theory, representation theory of finite groups, and number theory. Malle received his doctorate in 1986 from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology under the supervision of Heinrich Matzat with thesis Exceptional groups of Lie type as Galois groups. He completed his habilitation in 1991 at Heidelberg University and from 1998 was a professor at Kassel University. Since 2005 he is professor at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.

#5731

Zekai̇ Şen

#117935

Overall Influence

#5732

Veniamin Myasnikov

#97387

Overall Influence

1936 - 2004 (68 years)

Veniamin Petrovich Myasnikov was a Soviet mathematician, mechanician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Biography Veniamin Myasnikov was born in Moscow in 1936. He was educated in MSU , which was completed in 1959.

#5733

Antun Domic

#106983

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Antun Domic is a Chilean-American engineer and mathematician. Early life and education Domic obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, with a dissertation in partial differential equations.

#5734

Joseph L. Ullman

#104288

Overall Influence

1923 - 1995 (72 years)

Joseph Leonard Ullman was a mathematician who worked on classical analysis with a focus on approximation theory. Ullman received his A.B. from the University of Buffalo and his graduate studies were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was injured, received a Purple Heart, and spent the rest of the war as a mathematics instructor. He received a Ph.D. in 1949 from Stanford University with thesis Studies on Faber Polynomials under the direction of Gábor Szegő. Ullman became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1949, an assistant professor in 1954, an associate p...

#5735

Camille McKayle

#82085

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Camille Althea McKayle is an Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and is the current Provost of the University of the Virgin Islands . She holds a PhD in mathematics from Lehigh University and taught undergraduates at Lafayette College and UVI from 1993 to 2008.

#5736

Mai Gehrke

#81338

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Mai Gehrke is a Danish mathematician who studies the theory of lattices and their applications to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. She is a director of research for the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique , affiliated with the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

#5737

Maxine Pfannkuch

#97602

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Maxine Jeanette Pfannkuch is a New Zealand statistics educator, known for her work reforming the New Zealand national statistics curriculum. She is an associate professor in the department of statistics of the University of Auckland, and the former editor-in-chief of the Statistics Education Research Journal.

#5738

Mikhail Goussarov

#102116

Overall Influence

1958 - 1999 (41 years)

Mikhail Goussarov was a Soviet mathematician who worked in low-dimensional topology. He and Victor Vassiliev independently discovered finite type invariants of knotss and links. He drowned at the age of 41 in an accident in Tel Aviv, Israel.

#5739

Alessandra Iozzi

#108009

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Alessandra Iozzi is an Italian-born mathematician known for her research in geometric group theory. Originally from Rome, she holds Italian, Swiss, and American citizenships, and works as an adjunct professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich.

#5740

Agata Ciabattoni

#44686

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Agata Ciabattoni is an Italian mathematical logician specializing in non-classical logic. She is a full professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology , and a co-chair of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien .

#5741

Janny Leung

#79878

Overall Influence

Janny May-yee Leung is a Chinese operations researcher and academic administrator, the master of Choi Kai Yau College at the University of Macau and courtesy professor in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City of the University of Macau. Topics in her research have included transportation scheduling, logistics, facility location, and polyhedral combinatorics.

#5742

Iossif Ostrovskii

#73671

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory and probability theory, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .

#5743

Ramakrishna R. Nemani

#118263

Overall Influence

#5744

Johnathan Aicardi

#118304

Overall Influence

#5745

David Spivak

#58553

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

David Isaac Spivak is an American mathematician and senior scientist at the Topos Institute. He has worked on applications of category theory, in particular ologs and operadic compositionality of dynamical systems. He authored and coauthored the introductory texts on category theory and its applications, Category Theory for the Sciences and An Invitation to Applied Category Theory.

#5746

Héctor José Sussmann

#118354

Overall Influence

#5747

Vinay V. Deodhar

#96138

Overall Influence

1948 - 2015 (67 years)

Vinay Vithal Deodhar was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University. He worked in the area of algebraic groups and representation theory. Early life Deodhar was born in Mumbai , India in 1948.

#5748

Moritz Epple

#85060

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Moritz Epple is a German mathematician and historian of science. Biography Epple studied mathematics, philosophy and physics in Copenhagen, London, and at the University of Tübingen, where he received in 1987 his bachelor's degree in physics and in 1991 his Ph.D. in mathematical physics. He then became an assistant in the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Mainz, where he received in 1998 his Habilitation. From 2001 to 2003 he was the head of the department of history of the natural sciences and technology at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2003 he has been ...

#5749

Alkes Price

#77025

Overall Influence

Alkes Long Price is an American statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Statistical Genetics in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health , where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. In addition, he is an associate member of the Broad Institute's Program in Medical and Population Genetics and a member of the HSPH Program in Quantitative Genomics. In 2017, he received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Harvard School of Public Health.

#5750

Dora Musielak

#84072

Overall Influence

Dora Elia Musielak is an aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author. She is an expert on high-speed airbreathing jet engines, and an adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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