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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6051

Max R. Mickey

#125416

Overall Influence

#6052

John Jaroslav Bartko

#125432

Overall Influence

#6053

J. Clifton Thompson

#125456

Overall Influence

#6054

Leif Arkeryd

#116690

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Leif O. Arkeryd is professor emeritus of mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology. He is a specialist on the theory of the Boltzmann equation. Arkeryd earned his doctorate from Lund University in 1966, under the supervision of Jaak Peetre.

#6055

Laurie Heyer

#87317

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics. She is Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, director of Davidson's Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and former chair of Davidson's Mathematics and Computer Science Department.

#6056

Miguel Walsh

#85761

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (38 years)

Miguel Nicolás Walsh is an Argentine mathematician working in number theory and ergodic theory. He has previously held a Clay Research Fellowship and was a fellow of Merton College at the University of Oxford. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires.

#6057

Raymond McLenaghan

#119201

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Raymond George McLenaghan is a Canadian theoretical physicist and mathematician. With Carminati, he is known for Carminati–McLenaghan invariants. Notes External links

#6058

C. Ronald Mackenzie

#125600

Overall Influence

#6059

Karren More

#106034

Overall Influence

Karren L. More is an American materials scientist who is the Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research considers advanced electron microscopy as a probe to understand the structure and chemistry of emerging materials. More is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and Microscopy Society of America.

#6060

Marco Avellaneda

#105057

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Marco Avellaneda was an American mathematician and financial consultant. He was the director of the Division of Financial Mathematics at the Courant Institute at New York University. Early life Avellaneda was born on February 16, 1955, in Miramar, Argentina. His great-grandfather Nicolas Avellaneda was Argentina’s youngest President and was credited with having brought on a period of peace and significant economic output and exports at the end of the 19th century. He spent his formative years living in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Paris. Avellaneda attended the University of Buenos Aires from 1977 to 1981.

#6061

Robert Altenkirch

#13975

Overall Influence

Robert A. Altenkirch was the President of University of Alabama in Huntsville and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Life Altenkirch holds a B.S. from Purdue University, a M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is the author of over 50 publications and nearly 100 presentations in combustion and heat transfer and served as principal investigator for ten Space Shuttle experiments investigating the spread of fire in reduced gravity. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. While an under...

#6062

P. A. V. B. Swamy

#110620

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Paravastu Aananta Venkata Bhattandha Swamy is an Indian-born statistician. His research focused on econometric issues such as the simultaneous presence of measurement error, misspecified functional forms, and omitted variables.

#6063

Milan Kolibiar

#117774

Overall Influence

1922 - 1994 (72 years)

Milan Kolibiar was a Slovak mathematician. He worked mostly in lattice theory and universal algebra. External links Milan Kolibiar's entry at biographies of Slovak mathematicians on the website of Mathematical Institute of Slovak academy of science

#6064

Annie Cuyt

#108004

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Annie A. M. Cuyt is a Belgian computational mathematician known for her work on continued fractions, numerical analysis, Padé approximants, and related topics. She is a professor at the University of Antwerp, and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

#6065

Olena Vaneeva

#82046

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Olena Oleksandrivna Vaneeva is a Ukrainian mathematician and researcher and vice head of the Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her interests include group analysis of differential equations and integrable systems, and partial differential equations.

#6066

Marion Scheepers

#118191

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Marion Scheepers is a South African-born mathematician, lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mathematics of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho since 1988. He is particularly known for his work on selection principles and on infinite topological and set-theoretical games. He introduced themes that are common to many selection principles and is responsible for the Scheepers diagram.

#6067

Nicholas Young

#94696

Overall Influence

Nicholas John Young is a British mathematician working in operator theory, functional analysis and several complex variables. He is a research professor at the University of Leeds. Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and function theory.

#6068

Ascher Wagner

#120031

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Ascher Otto Wagner was an Austrian and British mathematician, specializing in the theory of finite groups and finite projective planes. He is known for the . Ascher Wagner received his Ph.D. in 1958 with dissertation Some Problems on Projective Planes and Related Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Operations supervised by Kurt Hirsch. Wagner was a faculty member at the University of London and then at the University of Birmingham.

#6069

Joyeeta Gupta

#120343

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Joyeeta Gupta is an Dutch environmental scientist who is professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, and co-chair of the Earth Commission, set up by Future Earth and supported by the Global Challenges Foundation. She was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6 , published by Cambridge University Press, which was presented to governments participating in the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2019. She is a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

#6070

Akif Jafar Hajiyev

#88223

Overall Influence

1937 - 2015 (78 years)

Akif Jafar Hajiyev was an Azerbaijani mathematician. He served as the vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences from 2013 until his death. From 2004 to 2013, he was the director of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of National Academy of Sciences. He authored four books, in addition to numerous papers. By presidential decree, he was awarded the "Order of Glory" in 2004 and "Honored Worker of Science" in 2005.

#6071

John Ludbrook

#125996

Overall Influence

#6072

Jun Lou

#126014

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

#6073

Susanne Dierolf

#112129

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Susanne Dierolf was a German mathematician specializing in the theory of topological vector spaces. She was a professor for many years at the University of Trier. Life Dierolf was born on 16 July 1942 in Bratislava, at the time under German occupation and administered as part of Lower Austria.

#6074

James Hamilton

#45794

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

James "Jim" Hamilton was an Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist who, whilst at Dublin Institute for Advanced Sciences , helped to develop the theory of cosmic-ray mesons with Walter Heitler and Hwan-Wu Peng.

#6075

Alan Reid

#112955

Overall Influence

Alan William Reid is a Scottish-American mathematician working primarily with arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds. He is the Edgar Odell Lovett Chair of mathematics at Rice University, 2017—present.

#6076

Peregrina Quintela Estévez

#112385

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Peregrina Quintela Estévez is a Spanish applied mathematician. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, the founding director of the Spanish Network for Mathematics and Industry, and the winner of the 2016 María Josefa Wonenburger Planells prize of the Galician government.

#6077

Oleksandr Boichuk

#118001

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Oleksandr Andriiovych Boichuk, sometimes Alexander Boichuk is a Ukrainian mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , head of the laboratory boundary-value problems of differential equations of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology and Mitropolskiy Prize .

#6078

Nataša Jonoska

#102333

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Nataša Jonoska is a Macedonian mathematician and professor at the University of South Florida known for her work in DNA computing. Her research is about how biology performs computation, "in particular using formal models such as cellular or other finite types of automata, formal language theory symbolic dynamics, and topological graph theory to describe molecular computation."

#6079

Pablo Laguna

#126103

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

#6080

Stephan Olariu

#126187

Overall Influence

#6081

Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp

#109809

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp was a German mathematician, specializing in algebra. Education and career As an undergraduate, Roggenkamp studied mathematics from 1960 to 1964 at the University of Giessen. There in 1967 he received his PhD. His thesis Darstellungen endlicher Gruppen in Polynombereichen was written under the supervision of Hermann Boerner. As a postdoc Roggenkamp was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied under Irving Reiner, and at the University of Montreal. After four years as a professor at Bielefeld University, he was appointed to the chair of algeb...

#6082

Ruy de Queiroz

#48794

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Ruy J. Guerra B. de Queiroz is an associate professor at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and holds significant works in the research fields of Mathematical logic, proof theory, foundations of mathematics and philosophy of mathematics. He is the founder of the Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation , which has been organised annually since 1994, typically in June or July.

#6083

Gábor Korchmáros

#121608

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Gábor Korchmáros is a Hungarian mathematician, who works on finite geometry. Biography Korchmáros received in 1972 from the University of Budapest a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 1973 on a postdoc grant, he studied at the Research Center of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. In 1976 he was awarded the Grunwald Prize of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society. In 1980 he received the Candidate of Sciences degree and in 2000 the Doctor of Sciences degree from the János Bolyai Mathematical Society. In 1987 he became a professor at the Università della Basilicata. He was a visiting professor at several u...

#6084

Kasso Okoudjou

#117786

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Kasso Akochayé Okoudjou is a Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. He works primarily on harmonic analysis and is currently also doing research in time-frequency analysis and fractals. He was the 2018 Martin Luther King Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#6085

Joseph G. Ibrahim

#126304

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

#6086

A. Rod Gover

#97797

Overall Influence

Ashwin Rod Gover is a New Zealand mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is currently employed as a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is the PhD students' Adviser for the Department of Mathematics and is the head of the Analysis, Geometry and Topology Research Group at the University of Auckland.

#6087

Nicholas Hanges

#73766

Overall Influence

Nicholas William Hanges was a mathematician at the City University of New York, known for his work in partial differential equations and the theory of several complex variables. He was a Professor of Mathematics at Lehman College.

#6088

Debasish Kundu

#126369

Overall Influence

#6089

Salvatore Greco

#126411

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

#6090

Martin H. Schultz

#126460

Overall Influence

#6091

William B. Johnson

#126470

Overall Influence

#6092

Lyudvig Dmitrievich Faddeev

#126488

Overall Influence

#6093

Nora Fung‐yee Tam

#126497

Overall Influence

#6094

Steven Takiff

#73591

Overall Influence

Steven Joel Takiff is an American mathematician who introduced what became Takiff algebras in 1971. Publications External links Doctoral graduates from 1903-present, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignLinkedIn account

#6095

Sergio Martín Vicente-serrano

#126586

Overall Influence

#6096

Jan Mandel

#97349

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Jan Mandel is a Czech-American mathematician. He received his PhD from the faculty of mathematics and physics, Charles University in Prague and was a senior research scientist there. Since 1986, he is professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver. Since 2013, he is senior scientist at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

#6097

Gizem Karaali

#100864

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Gizem Karaali is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Background and education Mathematician Gizem Karaali is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother was a professor of nutrition science. She graduated from UAA and then went on to Boğaziçi University where she graduated in 1997 with undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. Karaali earned her PhD in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. Her dissertation was "r-Matrices on Lie Superalgebras" and her advisors were Nikolai Jurieviç Reshetikhin and Vera V.

#6098

Kevin Burrage

#126650

Overall Influence

#6099

Alan K. Betts

#126709

Overall Influence

#6100

Tony Greenfield

Tony Greenfield

#89966

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Tony Greenfield was a British statistical consultant and academic. He was formerly Head of Process Computing and Statistics at the British Iron and Steel Research Association, Sheffield, and Professor of Medical Computing and Statistics at Queen's University, Belfast.

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