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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6501

Nicolas Bergeron

Nicolas Bergeron

#130627

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Nicolas Bergeron is a French mathematician born on 19 December 1975, who works in Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Early career Bergeron obtained his PhD at École normale supérieure de Lyon in the year 2000 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Otal. His thesis was titled Cycles géodésiques dans les variétés hyperboliques .

#6502

Leslie M. Smith

#105850

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Leslie Morgan Smith is an American applied mathematician, mechanical engineer, and engineering physicist whose research focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of mathematics and of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin.

#6503

Vladimir Yakubovich

#104283

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich was a notable Russian control theorist and head of the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics at Saint Petersburg State University . In 1996 he received the IEEE Control Systems Award for his contributions to control theory, including the Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma.

#6504

Krista Fischer

#108744

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Krista Fischer is an Estonian biostatistician whose research concerns body mass, genetic variability, and their association with diseases. She is a professor of mathematical statistics in the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu, where she is also an associate professor in the Institute of Genomics.

#6505

Michiel Hazewinkel

#136794

Overall Influence

#6506

Emilio Herrera

#136815

Overall Influence

#6507

Chong Chi Tat

#71229

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Chong Chi Tat is university professor and director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore . His research interests are in the areas of recursion/computability theory.

#6508

Catherine Hobbs

#109838

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Catherine Ann Hobbs is a British mathematician and educator working as a professor and Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University. Her research focuses on applications of singularity theory to the physical sciences. She has a strong interest in science policy, particularly relating to encouraging and supporting women in STEM fields.

#6509

John Duchi

#136856

Overall Influence

#6510

Janis Oldham

#119934

Overall Influence

1956 - 2021 (65 years)

Janis Marie Oldham was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and mathematics education and known for her efforts in mentoring mathematics students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

#6511

Lydia Bieri

#88526

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Lydia Rosina Bieri is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effects. She is a professor of mathematics and director of the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the University of Michigan.

#6512

Jonathan Rosenhead

#92839

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Jonathan Vivian Rosenhead is a British mathematician, operational researcher and Labour Party activist. Early life and career Jonathan Rosenhead is the son of mathematician Louis Rosenhead. He studied at the University of Cambridge where he received a B.A. degree in mathematics in 1959. He continued his studies at University College London where he received an M.Sc. degree in statistics in 1961, and an M.A. from Cambridge in 1963. He worked as an operational researcher at United Steel Companies in Sheffield in 1961-63 and at Science in General Management Ltd. in Croydon in 1963-66 before re...

#6513

Victor Moll

#90998

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Victor Hugo Moll is a Chilean American mathematician specializing in calculus. Moll studied at the Universidad Santa Maria and at the New York University with a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in 1984 with Henry P. McKean . He was a post-doctoral student at Temple University and became an assistant professor in 1986 and an associate professor in 1992 and in 2001 Professor at Tulane University.

#6514

Jessika Eichel

#137004

Overall Influence

#6515

Günter Asser

#72238

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Günter Asser was a professor emeritus of logic and mathematics at the University of Greifswald. He published numerous volumes on philosophers and mathematicians. His own research was in computability theory.

#6516

Maria Deijfen

#124407

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Maria Deijfen is a Swedish mathematician known for her research on random graphs and stochastic processes on graphs, including the Reed–Frost model of epidemics. She is a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University.

#6517

Joanna Masingila

#120851

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Joanna Osborne Masingila is an American mathematics educator. She served as the dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University from 2015 to 2021, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, and a professor of mathematics and mathematics education at Syracuse.

#6518

David Klein

#95212

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

David Klein is a professor of Mathematics at California State University in Northridge. He is an advocate of increasingly rigorous treatment of mathematics in school curricula and a frequently cited opponent of reforms based on the NCTM standards. One of the participants in the founding of Mathematically Correct, Klein appears regularly in the Math Wars.

#6519

Yasuyoshi Ouchi

#137134

Overall Influence

#6520

Ruth I. Michler

#132980

Overall Influence

1967 - 2000 (33 years)

Ruth I. Michler was an American-born mathematician of German descent who lived and worked in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and she was a tenured associate professor at the University of North Texas. She died at the age of 33 while visiting Northeastern University, after which at least three memorial conferences were held in her honor, and the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize was established in her memory.

#6521

John A. Jacquez

#137154

Overall Influence

#6522

Gerald Goldin

#116288

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Gerald Goldin is currently a distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He is part of three divisions at Rutgers University: Department of Learning and Teaching, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Physics.

#6523

Dave Eggers

#4263

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal; a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness; and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.

#6524

Johanna G. Nešlehová

#113529

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Johanna G. Nešlehová is a Czech mathematical statistician who works in Canada at McGill University as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics. Her research interests include copulas, extreme value theory, multivariate statistics, and operational risk.

#6525

Didier Leys

#137289

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

#6526

Shi Yuguang

#133480

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Shi Yuguang is a Chinese mathematician at Peking University. His areas of research are geometric analysis and differential geometry. He was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan Prize in 2010, for "outstanding contributions to the geometry of complete Riemannian manifolds, specifically the positivity of quasi-local mass and rigidity of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds."

#6527

Christian Reinsch

#113953

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Christian Reinsch was a German mathematician who worked in the area of numerical analysis. Reinsch began studying physics in 1953 at the Technical University of Munich, graduating in 1958. He received his doctorate in 1961 studying under Heinz Maier-Leibnitz.

#6528

David Jhave Johnston

#29186

Overall Influence

David Jhave Johnston is a Canadian poet, videographer, and motion graphics artist working chiefly in digital and computational media,. and a researcher at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. This artist's work is often attributed, simply, to the name Jhave.

#6529

Thomas F. George

Thomas F. George

#46330

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Thomas F. George is chancellor and professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, George earned a bachelor of arts degree with a double major in chemistry and mathematics from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, then a master of science and a doctor of philosophy degree in theoretical chemistry from Yale University. He was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, before taking the St. Louis job in 2003, and has announced his intention to retire from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in September, 2019. He is married to Barbara Harbach, chair of the University of Missouri-St.

#6530

J. Donald Woodruff

#137492

Overall Influence

#6531

Dorina Mitrea

#116349

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Dorina Irena-Rita Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician known for her work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of distributions, and in mathematics education. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at Baylor University.

#6532

Michael Joseph Crawley

#137544

Overall Influence

#6533

Stanley B. Gershwin

#137558

Overall Influence

#6534

Limin Peng

#73197

Overall Influence

Liming Peng is a Chinese biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute. The topics of her statistical research include survival analysis, quantile regression, and nonparametric statistics; she applies these methods to the study of chronic diseases including diabetes and cystic fibrosis.

#6535

Walter Schachermayer

Walter Schachermayer

#137598

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#6536

Willy Maenhaut

#137625

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

#6537

Michael L. Stein

#137660

Overall Influence

#6538

Lisa Lix

#126508

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Lisa Marie Lix is a Canadian health scientist and biostatistician at the University of Manitoba, where she holds a Canada Research Chair. Topics in her research have included cohort studies and the analysis of variance as well as bowel disease and disease-related bone fracture risk.

#6539

Vicumpriya Perera

#117709

Overall Influence

Vicumpriya Perera is a Sri Lankan born mathematician, lyricist, poet and music producer. He has published three books of Sinhala poetry, Mekunu Satahan in 2001, Paa Satahan in 2013, and Mawbime Suwandha in 2023. He has written over 200 songs and has produced eleven Sinhala song albums. He currently works as a mathematics professor in Ohio, US.

#6540

T. N. Venkataramana

T. N. Venkataramana

#103927

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Tyakal Nanjundiah Venkataramana is an Indian mathematician who specialises in algebraic groups and automorphic forms. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2001, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Venkataramana's first major work was the extension of G. A. Margulis's work on arithmeticity of higher rank lattices to the case of groups in positive characteristics. He also has contributions to non-vanishing theorems on cohomology of arithmetic groups, to Lefschetz type theorems on restriction of cohomology on local...

#6541

Ernst Ruh

#127036

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Ernst Alfred Ruh , born 23 February 1936, is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Ernst Ruh received his doctorate in 1964 from Brown University under Katsumi Nomizu with thesis On the Automorphism Groups of a G-structure. He is a professor at Ohio State University and a professor of computer science at the University of Basel . In 1990 Ruh became a full professor of mathematics at the University of Fribourg; he was the successor of Josef Schmid. In 2006 he retired as professor emeritus.

#6542

Vittorio Castellano

#106725

Overall Influence

1909 - 1997 (88 years)

Castellano Vittorio was an Italian statistician. Biography Vittorio Castellano was born in Naples on June the 29th and studied in Rome first Mathematics and Physics the Statistics. In 1031 he held a position at ISTAT. I933 he became assistant professor at Gini’s chair, however only in 1953 he took up the chair at Rome University teaching Statistics, Sampling Theory and Sociology. His career and life were troubled. In 1937 he was appointed at the Minister of Italian Africa and he left Italy to Eritrea. He conducted the Census of the native population of Eritrea in 1939, and he investigated on demographic development in Eritrea during the fifty years of Italian administration .

#6543

Dimitris Nicolas Politis

#137891

Overall Influence

#6544

Friedrich Leisch

#137894

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

#6545

Gradimir Milovanović

#94363

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Gradimir V. Milovanović is a Serbian mathematician known for his contributions to approximation theory and numerical analysis. He has published over 280 papers and authored five monographs and more than twenty books in his area. He is a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of other Serbian and international scientific societies.

#6546

John E. Freund

#134797

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

John Ernst Freund was a prominent author of university level textbooks on statistics and a mathematics professor at Arizona State University. Born in Berlin, Germany, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. He studied at the University of London and at the University of California at Los Angeles, from which he received his bachelor's degree. He did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh, from which he received his doctorate in 1952.

#6547

David Lovelock

#79189

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

David Lovelock is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem. Notes Books External links David Lovelock Personal Home Page

#6548

Cathérine Jami

#117006

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Catherine Jami is a French historian of mathematics specializing in Chinese mathematics. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Centre for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She is the former president of the Association française d’études chinoises and of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.

#6549

Peter Szüsz

#116844

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

Peter Szüsz was a Serbian-Hungarian-American mathematician known for his proof of the Gauss-Kuzmin Theorem, his work in probabilistic number theory, and his book with Andrew M. Rockett on Continued Fractions.

#6550

John McWhirter

#91798

Overall Influence

See John McWhirter for other people of the same name. John G. McWhirter FRS FREng FIMA FInstP FIEE FLSW is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing. John McWhirter attended Newry High School. He graduated in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1970, and did his PhD there in 1973 on "The Virial Theorem in Collision Theory" under Benjamin Moiseiwitsch. He started working in the Signal Processing Group at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern, in the late 1970s, and has worked there for RSRE's successor organizations, currently QinetiQ.

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