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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#5901

Kathryn E. Hare

#111140

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Kathryn Elizabeth Hare is a Canadian mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis and fractal geometry. She was the Chair of the Pure Mathematics Department at the University of Waterloo from 2014 to 2018. She retired from the University of Waterloo in 2021.

#5902

Fyodor Zak

#101630

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Fyodor L. Zak Publications Further reading

#5903

Samuel Eilon

#121876

Overall Influence

#5904

María Manzano

#71582

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

María Gracia Manzano Arjona is a Spanish philosopher specializing in mathematical logic and model theory. Manzano earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Barcelona. Her dissertation, Sistemas generales de la lógica de segundo orden [General systems of second-order logic], was supervised by Jesús Mosterín. She is a professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Salamanca.

#5905

Vladimir Kondratiev

#121907

Overall Influence

1935 - 2010 (75 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kondratiev was a Russian mathematician and professor. He worked particularly in the field of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Prizes USSR State Prize Petrovsky Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lomonosov Prize of Moscow State University

#5906

Iryna Sushko

#81620

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Iryna Sushko is a Ukrainian mathematician who works as a senior research fellow in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and as a visiting professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research concerns nonlinear dynamical systems and their applications in economics and radio engineering.

#5907

Hongkai Zhao

#88627

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Hongkai Zhao is a Chinese mathematician and Ruth F. DeVarney Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. He is known for his work in scientific computing, imaging and numerical analysis, such as the fast sweeping method for Hamilton-Jacobi equation and numerical methods for moving interface problems.

#5908

Marloes Maathuis

#41204

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Marloes Henriette Maathuis is a Dutch statistician known for her work on causal inference using graphical models, particularly in high-dimensional data from applications in biology and epidemiology. She is a professor of statistics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

#5909

Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe

#107907

Overall Influence

1936 - 2008 (72 years)

Nicole Leonie Jean Marie De Grande-De Kimpe was a Belgian mathematician known as a pioneer of -adic functional analysis, and particularly for her work on locally convex topological vector spaces over fields with non-Archimedean valuations.

#5910

Pyotr Ufimtsev

#15865

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Pyotr Yakovlevich Ufimtsev is a Soviet/Russian physicist and mathematician, considered the seminal force behind modern stealth aircraft technology. In the 1960s he began developing equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.

#5911

Stephan Ramon Garcia

#114442

Overall Influence

Stephan Ramon Garcia is an American mathematician. He is the W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College, in California, United States. Garcia has been a faculty member at Pomona since 2006. He is the author of more than 100 research papers, many with undergraduate co-authors, and four books. Garcia works in operator theory, complex variables, matrix analysis, number theory, and discrete geometry. He serves on the editorial board of several well-known journals and has received four National Science Foundation grants as principal investigator.

#5912

Vasily E. Tarasov

#122128

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#5913

Olga Beaver

#62279

Overall Influence

1942 - 2012 (70 years)

Olga Beaver , informally called Ollie, was a Czech-American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. She was the recipient of the second Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics. She is noted for having founded the Summer Science Program at Williams. She served as the director of the SSP for many years, and was the chair of the Mathematics Department at Williams for five and a half years.

#5914

Dmitry Gudkov

#122186

Overall Influence

1918 - 1992 (74 years)

Dmitrii Andreevich Gudkov was a Soviet mathematician famous for his work on Hilbert's sixteenth problem and the related Gudkov's conjecture in algebraic geometry. He was a student of Aleksandr Andronov.

#5915

Rolf Schneider

#122215

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Rolf Georg Schneider is a mathematician. Schneider is a professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg. His main research interests are convex geometry and stochastic geometry. Career Schneider completed his PhD 1967 with Ruth Moufang at Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis titled . In 1969, he got his Habilitation in Bochum. In 1970, he was appointed as a full professor at TU Berlin and in 1974 at the University of Freiburg.

#5916

Kiyoshi Iséki

#122217

Overall Influence

#5917

Selenne Bañuelos

#109563

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (40 years)

Selenne Bañuelos is an American mathematician and associate professor of mathematics at California State University Channel Islands. Her research is in the areas of differential and difference equations and dynamical systems, with a focus on their applications to mathematical biology.

#5918

Mitrofan Cioban

#76874

Overall Influence

1942 - 2021 (79 years)

Mitrofan Cioban was a Moldovan mathematician specializing in topology, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova . He was born in Copceac , the son of Mihail and Tecla Cioban. At age 17 he enrolled in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Tiraspol State University. After one year Cioban transferred to Moscow State University, where he started attending the Topology seminar of Pavel Alexandrov. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1969 with thesis Properties of Quotient Mappings and Classification of Spaces written under the direction of Alexander Arhangelskii. Upon graduation, he returned in 1970 to Tiraspol State University as a faculty member, where he directed 17 Ph.D.

#5919

Howard L. Resnikoff

#109588

Overall Influence

1937 - 2018 (81 years)

Howard Leonard Resnikoff was an American mathematician and business executive. Resnikoff was born in New York City on May 13, 1937. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Ádám Korányi. Resnikoff began teaching at Rice University in 1967. He joined the University of California at Irvine faculty in 1975. Between 1979 and 1981, Resnikoff was director of the Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation. He became an associate vice president at Harvard University in 1981, serving until 1983.

#5920

Mikhail Fedoruk

#92336

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Mikhail Petrovich Fedoruk — is a rector of Novosibirsk State University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. Biography Mikhail P. Fedoruk born February 18, 1956, in the Kochenyovsky District of Novosibirsk District, Russia.

#5921

George A. M. Cross

#82613

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

George Alan Martin Cross FRS is a British molecular parasitologist. He has been André and Bella Meyer Professor of Molecular Parasitology at Rockefeller University since 1982. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Downing College, Cambridge. He was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1984.

#5922

Kristina Vušković

#106960

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Kristina L. Vušković is a Serbian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist working in graph theory. She is Professor in Algorithms and Combinatorics in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, and a professor of computer science at Union University .

#5923

Berit Stensønes

#107968

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Berit Stensønes was a Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics and known for her work on several complex variables. She was a professor of mathematical sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.

#5924

Hélène Morlon

#92805

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Hélène Morlon, born in 1978, is a French mathematician and ecologist specializing in biodiversity computational modeling, identifying the factors that influence diversification of species and their phenotypic evolution over millions of years. For her work, she was awarded an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2017.

#5925

Neil O'Connell

#105682

Overall Influence

Neil Michael O'Connell is an Irish mathematician from Shannon, County Clare. He attended Trinity College Dublin, and was elected to scholarship in 1987. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and a gold medal in 1989 and completed an M.Sc. in 1990. He obtained his PhD in 1993 at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Steven Neil Evans. He subsequently worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Warwick.

#5926

Rebecca Willett

#82835

Overall Influence

Rebecca Willett is an American statistician and computer scientist whose research involves machine learning, signal processing, and data science. She is a professor of statistics and computer science at the University of Chicago.

#5927

Michael Lin

#109770

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Michael Lin is an Israeli mathematician, who has published scientific articles in the field of probability concentrating on Markov chains and ergodic theory. He serves as professor emeritus at the Department of Mathematics in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Additionally, he is a member of the academic board and serves as the academic coordinator at Achva Academic College. Professor Lin is considered a Zionist, as he gave up a position at Ohio State University in order to promote the field of mathematics in Israel.

#5928

Timothy Osborn

#40731

Overall Influence

Timothy John Osborn is a climatologist and Professor of Climate Science at the University of East Anglia. In January 2017 he replaced Phil Jones as the Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit.

#5929

Valentin Yanin

#11239

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history. His expertise was medieval Rus' especially Novgorod the Great, where he had headed archaeological digs beginning in 1962.

#5930

Herman J. Adèr

#65222

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Hermanus Johannes "Herman J." Adèr is a Dutch statistician/methodologist and consultant at the , the VU University Medical Center and the University of Stavanger, known for work on Methodological Modelling and Social Research Methodology.

#5931

Keywan Riahi

#122716

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#5932

Gopal Kanji

#107132

Overall Influence

1938 - 2010 (72 years)

Gopal Kishore Kanji was a British statistician. Early life and education The son of a professor of psychology, Kanji was born in Patna, India in 1938. He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master in statistics from Patna University.

#5933

C. Robin Graham

#122745

Overall Influence

Charles Robin Graham is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington, known for a number of contributions to the field of conformal geometry and CR geometry; his collaboration with Charles Fefferman on the ambient construction has been particularly widely cited. The GJMS operators are, in part, named for him. He is a 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Graham received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, under the direction of Elias Stein.

#5934

Frank E. Grubbs

#119823

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Frank Ephraim Grubbs was an American statistician. Grubbs's test for outliers, and the Mann-Grubbs method for calculating a binomial series lower confidence bound, are named after him. He worked at the Ballistic Research Laboratory while he was a Captain in the U.S. Army.

#5935

Thérèse Stukel

#111359

Overall Influence

Thérèse A. Stukel is a Canadian statistician who works as a senior core scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, as a professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation of the University of Toronto, and as an adjunct professor of epidemiology and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College. Topics in her research include surgical mortality, the effects of regional variations in healthcare spending, and heart-related health care.

#5936

Allan Hunt Murphy

#122845

Overall Influence

#5937

Vyacheslav Vasilievich Sazonov

#108021

Overall Influence

1935 - 2002 (67 years)

Vyacheslav Vasilievich Sazonov was a Soviet-Russian mathematician, specializing in probability and measure theory. He is known for Sazonov's theorem. Education and career In 1958 he graduated from Moscow State University. There he received in 1961 his Ph.D. under Yuri Prokhorov with thesis "Распределения вероятностей и характеристические функционалы" . Sazonov worked in the Steklov Institute of Mathematics from 1958 to 2002. In 1968 he received his Russian doctorate of sciences with thesis "Исследования по многомерным и бесконечномерным предельным теоремам теории вероятностей" . In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Nice.

#5938

Eric Goles

#23070

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Eric Antonio Goles Chacc is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. A professor at the University of Chile, he is known for his work on cellular automata.

#5939

Bill Casselman

#121569

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

William Allen Casselman is an American Canadian mathematician who works in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He is closely connected to the Langlands program and has been involved in posting all of the work of Robert Langlands on the internet.

#5940

Anne-Laure Dalibard

#113935

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Anne-Laure Dalibard is a French mathematician working on asymptotic behavior of fluid equations occurring in oceanographic models. She works as a staff scientist at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, a joint research unit between Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research

#5941

Eleanor Rieffel

#91986

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel is a mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography. She is a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. Rieffel earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, Groups Coarse Quasi-Isometric to the Hyperbolic Plane Cross the Real Line, concerned geometric group theory, and was supervised by Geoffrey Mess. After working for FX Palo Alto Laboratory, she joined NASA in 2012. In 2019 she won the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal.

#5942

John Fauvel

#64556

Overall Influence

1947 - 2001 (54 years)

John Fauvel was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics. Education Fauvel was from Scotland, where his father was a principal. Ian Blair was a cousin. John attended Trinity College, Glenalmond. He then studied mathematics at the University of Essex, where he graduated in 1970, and at the University of Warwick, where he obtained his master's degree in 1973. In 1977, he obtained his MPhil from the University of Warwick under the supervision of David Orme Tall, with a thesis entitled Fuzzy Theory.

#5943

Donald Titterington

#122977

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

#5944

Barry R. Davis

#109565

Overall Influence

Barry Robert Davis is an American statistician and public health doctor specializing in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials. He is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Data Science at the University of Texas School of Public Health, where he served as Director of its Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials. He served as President of the Society for Clinical Trials in 2000 and as Chair of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2003.

#5945

Terrence L. Fine

#82310

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Terrence L. Fine was an American scientist, engineer and philosopher. He is known especially for his contributions to the defense and development of alternatives to the classical calculus for probabilistic modeling and decision-making. Other contributions include Fine's theorem, the Fine numbers and the Fine–McMillan quantizer. He was the recipient of the first patent awarded in the area of statistical delta modulation.

#5946

Robert D. Russell

#97284

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Robert D. Russell is professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser University. Russell together with Uri Ascher and Robert Mattheij is the author of the seminal Numerical Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations which was subsequently republished as a SIAM Classic. His latest book is Adaptive Moving Mesh Methods with Weizhang Huang

#5947

Anna Maria Bigatti

#113189

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Anna Maria Bigatti is an Italian mathematician specializing in computational methods for commutative algebra. She is a ricercatore in the department of mathematics at the University of Genoa. She is one of the developers of CoCoA, a computer algebra system, and of its core library CoCoALib.

#5948

Rosamund Sutherland

#105463

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Rosamund Sutherland was a British mathematics educator. She was a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and the former head of the school of education at Bristol. Education and career Sutherland was born in Birmingham; her mother taught geography and her father was a physicist. The family moved to south Wales when she was young, and after attending Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls she became a student at the University of Bristol, where she met and married her husband, mechanical and biomedical engineer Ian Sutherland.

#5949

Eldon Hansen

#110216

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (98 years)

Eldon Robert Hansen is an American mathematician and author who has published in global optimization theory and interval arithmetic. Hansens's primary publications include Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis , A Table of Series and Products , and Topics in Interval Analysis . He also co-authored a number of works with the mathematician William Walster.

#5950

Sean Murphy

#52770

Overall Influence

Sean Murphy is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He worked on the NESSIE and ECRYPT projects. His notable research includes the cryptanalysis of FEAL and the Advanced Encryption Standard, and the use of stochastic and statistical techniques in cryptology. With Donald Davies he also developed Davies' attack on DES.

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