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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#651

Eduard Zehnder

#14268

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Eduard J. Zehnder is a Swiss mathematician, considered one of the founders of symplectic topology. Biography Zehnder studied mathematics and physics at ETH Zurich from 1960 to 1965, where he also did his Ph.D. in theoretical physics, defending his thesis on the three-body problem in 1971 under the direction of Res Jost. He was a visiting professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences , visiting member of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1972 to 1974. He passed his habilitation in mathematics in 1974 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He had appointments at the Uni...

#652

Camillo De Lellis

Camillo De Lellis

#15066

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Camillo De Lellis is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of calculus of variations, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics. He is a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is also one of the two managing editors of Inventiones Mathematicae.

#653

Alexandre Eremenko

#12171

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Alexandre Eremenko is a Ukrainian-American mathematician who works in the fields of complex analysis and dynamical systems. Academic career Eremenko was born into a medical family. His father was a pathophysiologist, professor and head of the Department of pathophysiology at Ternopil National Medical University. His mother was an ophthalmologist. He obtained his master's degree from Lviv University in 1976 and worked in the Institute of Low temperature physics and Engineering in Kharkiv until 1990. He received his PhD from Rostov State University in 1979 , and is currently a distinguished pro...

#654

Michael E. Taylor

#15199

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Michael Eugene Taylor is an American mathematician, working in partial differential equations. Taylor obtained his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1967, and completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinz Otto Cordes at the University of California, Berkeley . He held a professorship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is now the William R. Kenan Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#655

Irwin Kra

#14415

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Irwin Kra is an American mathematician, who works on the function theory in complex analysis. Life and work Kra studied at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1964 and received his doctorate in 1966 under supervision of Lipman Bers . After that, he was from 1966 to 1968 a C.L.E. Moore instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he chaired from 1975 to 1981 the Faculty of Mathematics. From 1991 to 1996, there, he was Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics.

#656

Gordon Royle

#16092

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Gordon F. Royle is a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Western Australia. Royle is the co-author of the book Algebraic Graph Theory . Royle is also known for his research into the mathematics of Sudoku and his search for the Sudoku puzzle with the smallest number of entries that has a unique solution.

#657

Gábor Tardos

#9533

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Gábor Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, currently a professor at Central European University and previously a Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. He works mainly in combinatorics and computer science. He is the younger brother of Éva Tardos.

#658

Robert Bryant

#13027

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Robert Leamon Bryant is an American mathematician. He works at Duke University and specializes in differential geometry. Education and career Bryant grew up in a farming family in Harnett County and was a first-generation college student. He obtained a bachelor's degree at North Caroline State University at Raleigh in 1974 and a PhD at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. His thesis was entitled "Some Aspects of the Local and Global Theory of Pfaffian Systems" and was written under the supervision of Robert Gardner.

#659

Calvin C. Moore

Calvin C. Moore

#8019

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Calvin C. Moore was an American mathematician who worked in the theory of operator algebras and topological groups. Moore graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and with a Ph.D. in 1960 under the supervision of George Mackey . In 1961 he became assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley and professor in 1966. From 1977 to 1980, he was director of the Center for Pure and Applied mathematics.

#660

Leila Schneps

#7035

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Leila Schneps is an American mathematician and fiction writer at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique working in number theory. Schneps has written general audience math books and, under the pen name Catherine Shaw, has written mathematically themed murder mysteries.

#661

Andrew Hodges

#3992

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Andrew Philip Hodges is a British mathematician, author and emeritus senior research fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. Education Hodges was born in London in 1949 and educated at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 for research on twistor theory supervised by Roger Penrose.

#662

Joseph Kruskal

#3515

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. Personal life Kruskal was born to a Jewish family in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler, Joseph B. Kruskal, Sr. His mother, Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer, became a noted promoter of origami during the early era of television.

#663

Donald Sarason

#12835

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Donald Erik Sarason was an American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and VMO. He was one of the most popular doctoral advisors in the Mathematics Department at UC Berkeley. He supervised 39 Ph.D. theses at UC Berkeley.

#664

Horng-Tzer Yau

#10794

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Horng-Tzer Yau is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. Yau joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He moved to Stanford in 2003, and then to Harvard University in 2005. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1987–88, 1991–92, and 2003, and was a distinguished visiting professor in 2013–14.

#665

Oded Goldreich

#3215

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Oded Goldreich is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, and computational complexity theory. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017 and was selected in 2021 to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics.

#666

Tomasz Mrowka

#14631

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Tomasz Mrowka is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and gauge theory. He is the Singer Professor of Mathematics and former head of the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#667

Edgar Gilbert

#9889

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Edgar Nelson Gilbert was an American mathematician and coding theorist, a longtime researcher at Bell Laboratories whose accomplishments include the Gilbert–Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert–Elliott model of bursty errors in signal transmission, and the Erdős–Rényi model for random graphs.

#668

J. Laurie Snell

J. Laurie Snell

#8349

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

James Laurie Snell was an American mathematician and educator. Biography J. Laurie Snell was the son of Roy Snell, an adventure author, and Lucille, a concert pianist. Lucille taught the three sons to play piano, cello, and violin. The family had a life-lease on a cabin in Isle Royale National Park where they would go for summer holidays.

#669

Merrill M. Flood

#10052

Overall Influence

1908 - 1991 (83 years)

Merrill Meeks Flood was an American mathematician, notable for developing, with Melvin Dresher, the basis of the game theoretical Prisoner's dilemma model of cooperation and conflict while being at RAND in 1950 .

#670

Andrew Granville

#10947

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Andrew James Granville is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory. He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at the University of Georgia from 1991 until 2002. He was a section speaker in the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians together with Carl Pomerance from UGA.

#671

James McKernan

#16717

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

James McKernan is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 2007 until 2013. Education McKernan was educated at the Campion School, Hornchurch, and Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991. His dissertation, On the Hyperplane Sections of a Variety in Projective Space, was supervised by Joe Harris.

#672

Daniel P. Sanders

#9782

Overall Influence

Daniel P. Sanders is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1996 efficient proof of proving the Four color theorem . He used to be a guest professor of the department of computer science at Columbia University.

#673

Imre Z. Ruzsa

#13340

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Imre Z. Ruzsa is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory. Life Ruzsa participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad for Hungary, winning a silver medal in 1969, and two consecutive gold medals with perfect scores in 1970 and 1971. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1976. Since then he has been at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1988. He was elected corresponding member and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was invited speaker at the European Congre...

#674

Ron Aharoni

#11908

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Ron Aharoni is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979. With Nash-Williams and Shelah he generalized Hall's marriage theorem by obtaining the right transfinite conditions for infinite bipartite graphs. He subsequently proved the appropriate versions of the Kőnig theorem and the Menger theorem for infinite graphs .

#675

Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski

#8080

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Ehud Hrushovski is a mathematical logician. He is a Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was also Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#676

Urs Schreiber

#8083

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Urs Schreiber is a mathematician specializing in the connection between mathematics and theoretical physics and currently working as a researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was previously a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Department for Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics.

#677

Thomas E. Kurtz

#2053

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Thomas Eugene Kurtz is a retired Dartmouth professor of mathematics and computer scientist, who along with his colleague John G. Kemeny set in motion the then revolutionary concept of making computers as freely available to college students as library books were, by implementing the concept of time-sharing at Dartmouth College. In his mission to allow non-expert users to interact with the computer, he co-developed the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System during 1963 to 1964.

#678

Karl Sigmund

#4404

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Karl Sigmund is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vienna and one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory. Career Sigmund was schooled in the Lycée Francais de Vienne. From 1963 to 1968 he studied at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, and obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Leopold Schmetterer. He spent his postdoctorate years at Manchester , the Institut des hautes études scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette near Paris , the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1972 he received habil...

#679

Michael Lacey

#15195

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Michael Thoreau Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp. His thesis was in the area of probability in Banach spaces, and solved a problem related to the law of the iterated logarithm for empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of probability, ergodic theory, and harmonic analysis.

#680

Michael C. Reed

#12963

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael Charles Reed is an American mathematician known for his contributions to mathematical physics and mathematical biology. Reed first attended Yale University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. In 1969 he earned a PhD from Stanford University. Since 1977 he has taught at Duke University, where he is the Bishop-MacDermott Professor of Mathematics.

#681

Maria Chudnovsky

Maria Chudnovsky

#11135

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Maria Chudnovsky is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Education and career Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion, and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton University under the supervision of Paul Seymour. After postdoctoral research at the Clay Mathematics Institute, she became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2005, and moved to Columbia University in 2006. By 2014, she was the Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia.

#682

John M. Ball

#10876

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sir John Macleod Ball is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

#683

Stan Wagon

#13595

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Stanley Wagon is a Canadian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is the author of multiple books on number theory, geometry, and computational mathematics, and is also known for his snow sculpture.

#684

Vojtěch Rödl

#13923

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Vojtěch Rödl is a Czech American mathematician, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is noted for his contributions mainly to combinatorics having authored hundreds of research papers.

#685

Hirotugu Akaike

Hirotugu Akaike

#12532

Overall Influence

1927 - 2009 (82 years)

Hirotsugu Akaike was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion . AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference; additionally, AIC is the basis of a paradigm for the foundations of statistics. Akaike also made major contributions to the study of time series. As well, he had a large role in the general development of statistics in Japan.

#686

Arif Zaman

#3936

Overall Influence

Arif Zaman is a Pakistani mathematician, academic scientist, and a retired professor of Statistics and Mathematics from Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences , Lahore, Pakistan. Before joining LUMS in 1994, he also served in the Statistics Department at Purdue University and at Florida State University.

#687

Christophe Breuil

#14611

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Christophe Breuil is a French mathematician, who works in arithmetic geometry and algebraic number theory. Work With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved for semistable elliptic curves by Andrew Wiles and Taylor in their proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Later, he worked on the p-adic Langlands conjecture.

#688

Alain M. Robert

#16104

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Alain M. Robert is Honorary Professor at University of Neuchâtel. Robert received his PhD from the University of Neuchâtel in 1967, where he studied under Roger Bader. His dissertation Quelques Questions d'Espaces Vectoriels Topologiques concerned topological vector spaces.

#689

Helmut Hofer

#13764

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Helmut Hermann W. Hofer is a German-American mathematician, one of the founders of the area of symplectic topology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the recipient of the 1999 Ostrowski Prize and the 2013 Heinz Hopf Prize. Since 2009, he is a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He currently works on symplectic geometry, dynamical systems, and partial differential equations. His contributions to the field include Hofer geometry. Hofer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

#690

Harold Edwards

#14542

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. was an American mathematician working in number theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. He was one of the co-founding editors, with Bruce Chandler, of The Mathematical Intelligencer. He is the author of expository books on the Riemann zeta function, on Galois theory, and on Fermat's Last Theorem. He wrote a book on Leopold Kronecker's work on divisor theory providing a systematic exposition of that work—a task that Kronecker never completed. He wrote textbooks on linear algebra, calculus, and number theory. He also wrote a book of essays...

#691

Martin Hairer

#5573

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

#692

Mark Goresky

#15246

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Robert Mark Goresky is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with his advisor and life partner Robert MacPherson. Career Goresky received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976. His thesis, titled Geometric Cohomology and Homology of Stratified Objects, was written under the direction of MacPherson. Many of the results in his thesis were published in 1981 by the American Mathematical Society. He has taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and Northeastern University.

#693

Victor Zalgaller

Victor Zalgaller

#11947

Overall Influence

1920 - 2020 (100 years)

Victor Abramovich Zalgaller was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for the results he achieved on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry.

#694

Arkadi Nemirovski

#8179

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Arkadi Nemirovski is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his work on the ellipsoid method, modern interior-point methods and robust optimization.

#695

Anatoly Vershik

#13497

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences.

#696

Bjorn Poonen

#12935

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer science. He has edited two books.

#697

W. T. Martin

#16250

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

William Ted Martin was an American mathematician, who worked on mathematical analysis, several complex variables, and probability theory. He is known for the Cameron–Martin theorem and for his 1948 book Several complex variables, co-authored with Salomon Bochner.

#698

Gaisi Takeuti

#11786

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Gaisi Takeuti was a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in proof theory. After graduating from Tokyo University, he went to Princeton to study under Kurt Gödel. He later became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Takeuti was president of the Kurt Gödel Society, having worked on the book Memoirs of a Proof Theorist: Godel and Other Logicians. His goal was to prove the consistency of the real numbers. To this end, Takeuti's conjecture speculates that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination. He is also known for his work on ordina...

#699

Jens Franke

#15689

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Jens Franke is a German mathematician. He has held a chair at the University of Bonn's Hausdorff Center for Mathematics since 1992. Franke's research has covered various problems of number theory, algebraic geometry and analysis on locally symmetric spaces.

#700

Joseph J. Rotman

#18119

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Joseph J. Rotman was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and also a published author of 10 textbooks. Rotman was born in Chicago. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis in abelian groups written under the direction of Irving Kaplansky. In 1959 he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he spent the rest of his mathematical career. Rotman retired from UIUC in 2004. His research interests lay in the area of algebra, involving abelian groups, mod...

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