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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6301

Delores Conway

#74954

Overall Influence

Delores Ann Conway is an American statistician and economist known for her work on the statistics of real estate markets. She is Professor of Real Estate Economics and Statistics in the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester.

#6302

Charles Radin

#102190

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Charles Lewis Radin is an American mathematician, known for his work on aperiodic tilings and in particular for defining the pinwheel tiling and, with John Horton Conway, the quaquaversal tiling. Education and career Radin did his undergraduate studies at City College of New York, graduating in 1965, and then did his graduate studies at the University of Rochester, earning a Ph.D. in 1970 under the supervision of Gérard Emch. Since 1976 he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.

#6303

István Mayer

#131911

Overall Influence

#6304

James 0. Ramsay

#131945

Overall Influence

#6305

Rebecca Waldecker

#118199

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker is a German mathematician specializing in group theory. She is professor for algebra at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Education and career Waldecker is originally from Aachen. She earned her doctorate at the University of Kiel in 2007, under the supervision of , and in 2014 completed her habilitation at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

#6306

Patrick Onghena

#131976

Overall Influence

#6307

Enrique F. Schisterman

#131980

Overall Influence

#6308

András Kornai

#46765

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

András Kornai , son of economist János Kornai, is a mathematical linguist. He has earned two PhDs. He earned his first in Mathematics in 1983 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where his advisor was Miklós Ajtai, and his second in Linguistics in 1991 from Stanford University, where his advisor was Paul Kiparsky.

#6309

Vaclav Edvard Benes

#132114

Overall Influence

#6310

Stephen M. Gersten

#128365

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Stephen M. Gersten was an American mathematician, specializing in finitely presented groups and their geometric properties. Gersten graduated in 1961 with an AB from Princeton University and in 1965 with a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was Class Groups of Supplemented Algebras written under the supervision of John R. Stallings. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he taught at Rice University. In 1972–1973 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1973 he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1974 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver.

#6311

James Skea

#41673

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

James "Jim" Ferguson Skea CBE FRSE is a British academic. He is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its seventh assessment cycle, and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London. Before being elected as Chair, Skea was Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. He was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission. He was a co-author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. In July 2023, Skea was elected as Chair the IPCC.

#6312

Trachette Jackson

#106947

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Trachette Levon Jackson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology. She uses many different approaches, including continuous and discrete mathematical models, numerical simulations, and experiments to study tumor growth and treatment. Specifically, her lab is interested in "molecular pathways associated with intratumoral angiogenesis," "cell-tissue interactions associated with tumor-induced angiogenesis," and "tumor heterogeneity and cancer stem cells."

#6313

Karl Longin Zeller

#76582

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Karl Longin Zeller was a German mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory. He is the namesake of Zeller operators. Zeller was drafted into the Wehrmacht, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke, and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair ...

#6314

Karen Jean Bandeen-roche

#132198

Overall Influence

#6315

Mona Hatoum

#11666

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Mona Hatoum is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum was ineligible for a Lebanese identity card and does not identify as Lebanese. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes.

#6316

John Corner

#84126

Overall Influence

1916 - 1996 (80 years)

John Corner, was a British mathematician and physicist. He is best known for his work on interior ballistics and the British hydrogen bomb programme. Biography John Corner was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 4 January 1916. He was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School, and then entered Peterhouse, Cambridge. He obtained firsts in Parts I and II of the Mathematical Tripos in 1937. He was subsequently awarded his PhD in 1946. After graduation from the University of Cambridge in 1937, he became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Liverpool.

#6317

Takao Yamamuro

#132267

Overall Influence

#6318

Wei Pan

#132319

Overall Influence

#6319

John Lekner

#132329

Overall Influence

#6320

Rémi Gribonval

#132360

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

#6321

Heinz-otto Kreiss

#132368

Overall Influence

#6322

Patrick Brosnan

#129625

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Patrick Brosnan is an American mathematician, known for his work on motives, Hodge theory, and algebraic groups. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998 under the direction of Spencer Bloch. Brosnan is the 2009 recipient of the Coxeter–James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

#6323

Jing-Song Huang

#104520

Overall Influence

Jing-Song Huang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are representations of Lie groups and harmonic analysis. After graduating from Peking University, he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD degree in 1989, under the supervision of David Vogan.

#6324

Peter Balazs

#70916

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Peter Balazs is an Austrian mathematician working at the Acoustics Research Institute Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Peter Balazs studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 2001, he graduated with honors in mathematics and an MSc thesis on "Polynomials over Groups" . He successfully defended his PhD thesis and graduated in June 2005. His PhD thesis is titled, "Regular and Irregular Gabor Multiplier with Application to Psychoacoustic Masking".

#6325

R. Maheshprabhu And M. Sakthivel

#132569

Overall Influence

#6326

Peng Tsu Ann

#67663

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Peng Tsu Ann is a Singaporean mathematician, and the first University of Singapore graduate to obtain a PhD in mathematics. Peng was the Head of the Department of Mathematics at NUS from 1982 to 1996 and oversaw its rapid growth during the period.

#6327

Daya-Nand Verma

#87953

Overall Influence

1933 - 2012 (79 years)

Daya-Nand Verma was a mathematician at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research during the period 1968-1993. The construction of Verma modules appears in his Ph.D. thesis as a student of Nathan Jacobson at Yale University.

#6328

P.f.a. Van Mieghem

#132661

Overall Influence

#6329

Frédérique Oggier

#119393

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Frédérique Elise Oggier is a Swiss mathematician and coding theorist who works as an associate professor of physical and mathematical sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Education After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Geneva, Oggier completed her doctorate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in 2005, under the supervision of Eva Bayer-Fluckiger.

#6330

Patrick Ion

#88562

Overall Influence

Patrick D. F. Ion is an American mathematician whose main interest is in mathematical knowledge management. Ion completed his dissertation on quantum field theory, "Topics in Constructive QFT", in 1972 at the University of London under the supervision of Ray Streater. He continued to work in London, Groningen and Heidelberg in the field of quantum stochastics, q-analogues and the discrete Fourier transform in elementary geometry. He has also translated several mathematical monographs, e.g., of Jean-Pierre Serre and Wolfgang Hackbusch.

#6331

Meinhard E. Mayer

#45467

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Meinhard Edwin Mayer was a Romanian–born American Professor Emeritus of Physics and Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 1966. Biography He was born on March 18, 1929, in Cernăuți. He experienced both the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina and, as a Jew, deportation to the Transnistria Governorate. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1957, where he taught until 1961.

#6332

Richard Anthony Crowther

#132822

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

#6333

Eric M. Rains

#112933

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Eric Michael Rains is an American mathematician specializing in coding theory and special functions, especially applications from and to noncommutative algebraic geometry. Biography Eric Rains was 14 when he began classes in 1987. He left Case Western Reserve University with bachelor's degrees in computer science and physics and a master's degree in mathematics at age 17.

#6334

Ingrid Van Keilegom

#111477

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Ingrid Van Keilegom is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of operations research and business statistics at KU Leuven, and an extraordinary professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research interests include survival analysis, observational error, econometrics, and nonparametric statistics.

#6335

Sergei L’vovich Sobolev

#132840

Overall Influence

#6336

Amy H. Herring

#86719

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Amy Helen Herring is an American biostatistician interested in longitudinal data and reproductive health. Formerly the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is now Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistical Science, Global Health Institute, and Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics of Duke University.

#6337

Holger Kantz

#132867

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

#6338

Svein Longva

#65398

Overall Influence

1943 - 2009 (66 years)

Svein Longva was a Norwegian economist and civil servant. He was born in Oslo, but his family moved to Volda in 1950. After completing his secondary education there in 1962, he enrolled in political economy studies at the University of Oslo. Here, he was briefly involved in the Norwegian Labour Party student group, which was dominated by later politicians like Gudmund Hernes and Einar Førde. After graduating with the cand.oecon. degree, he was hired in Statistics Norway in 1968, was promoted to research director in 1984 and was managing director from 1991 to 2004. He was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University for a brief period in the 1970s.

#6339

Daniel K. Nakano

#132176

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Daniel Ken Nakano is an American mathematician. Nakano is a Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia; he specializes in representation theory. Nakano graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, and earned a doctorate in mathematics from Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of George B. Seligman with thesis Projective Modules over Lie Algebras of Cartan Type. After temporary positions at Auburn University and Northwestern University, he became an assistant professor at Utah State University in 1994 and moved to the University of G...

#6340

Paul Glaister

#117053

Overall Influence

Paul Glaister is a British mathematician, the UK representative to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, and former Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom, a body which set up the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education along with the Royal Society, and comprises 31 bodies representing mathematics education in the UK; an External Expert for Ofqual and for the Standards and Testing Agency within the Department for Education; Honorary Secretary and a Council member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications; and works closely with the Education Development Trust in a number of areas in mathematics education.

#6341

Tor Helleseth

#133033

Overall Influence

#6342

Martin Wild

#133049

Overall Influence

#6343

Kendall E. Atkinson

#133056

Overall Influence

#6344

Piet Groeneboom

#99838

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Petrus Groeneboom is a Dutch statistician who made major advances in the field of shape-constrained statistical inference such as isotonic regression, and also worked in probability theory. Education and career At the beginning of his tertiary studies in 1959, Groeneboom enrolled in medicine at the University of Amsterdam but quickly switched to psychology at the same university, obtaining a candidate degree in 1963. During his studies he attended a course on logic by analytic philosopher Else M. Barth, whose influence, along with that by Lambert Meertens after his candidate degree, he later stated as having made him decide to study mathematics.

#6345

Luca Vogt

#133182

Overall Influence

#6346

Peter Filzmoser

#133231

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

#6347

Stefaan Vaes

#107612

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Stefaan Vaes is a Belgian mathematician. Vaes studied mathematics at KU Leuven with a diploma in 1998 and a PhD in 2001 with thesis advisor Alfons Van Daele and thesis Locally Compact Quantum Groups. As a postdoc, he worked from 1998 to 2002 at KU Leuven and from 1998 to 2002 in Paris, where he did research for CNRS. In 2002, he began part-time teaching at KU Leuven, where he became an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2009.

#6348

Christine Böckmann

#118618

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Christine Böckmann is a German applied mathematician, numerical analyst, and expert on atmospheric lidar. She is an außerplanmäßiger Professor of mathematics at the University of Potsdam, and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network.

#6349

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

#133324

Overall Influence

#6350

Daihachiro Sato

Daihachiro Sato

#113381

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

was a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. His doctoral supervisor at the University of California, Los Angeles was Ernst G. Straus.

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