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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6651

Gabriel Barton

#140735

Overall Influence

#6652

Victor Lomonosov

#140755

Overall Influence

1946 - 2018 (72 years)

Victor Lomonosov was a Russian-American mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in 1973 on the invariant subspace problem, which was described by Walter Rudin in his classical book on Functional Analysis as "Lomonosov's spectacular invariant subspace theorem". The Theorem Lomonosov gives a very short proof, using the Schauder fixed point theorem, that if the bounded linear operator T on a Banach space commutes with a non-zero compact operator then T has a non-trivial invariant subspace. Lomonosov has also published on the...

#6653

Eugene C. Freuder

#140833

Overall Influence

#6654

Peter Guttorp

#131036

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Peter Guttorp is a statistician, born in Sweden, with most of his career in the United States. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and professor at the Norwegian Computing Center. Most of his work is in stochastic modeling of scientific data in hematology, geosciences, and climatology, with particular focus on spatial and spatio-temporal approaches. He has also worked in the history of statistics.

#6655

Jayaram Sethuraman

#140899

Overall Influence

#6656

Mohammad Ali Mirzazadeh

#141025

Overall Influence

#6657

Kseniya Garaschuk

#87340

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Kseniya Garaschuk is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician and mathematics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of the Fraser Valley, and the editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal Crux Mathematicorum.

#6658

Gerald Schwarz

#136495

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Gerald Walter Schwarz is an American mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University. Schwarz specializes in invariant theory, algebraic group actionss and invariant differential operators.

#6659

Daniel Peña

#83616

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera is a Spanish engineer and statistician. Education Peña obtained a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Madrid and studied sociology and statistics at Complutense University of Madrid and business administration Harvard University. He is an active researcher in statistics and econometrics and was rector of Charles III University of Madrid in 2007–2015.

#6660

David J. Pettitt

#141143

Overall Influence

#6661

Eleonora Di Nezza

#130596

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (39 years)

Eleonora Di Nezza is an Italian mathematician, a CNRS researcher at the Centre de mathématiques Laurent-Schwartz and a professor of mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France. Her research is at the intersection of various branches of mathematics including complex and differential geometry, and focuses on Kahler geometry.

#6662

Elena Vázquez Cendón

#126945

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

María Elena Vázquez Cendón is a Spanish applied mathematician specializing in the use of differential equations to model waves and shallow water, and in the use of finite volume methods and upwind schemes to compute numerical solutions to these differential equations and other hyperbolic partial differential equations. She is a professor of applied mathematics and dean of mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

#6663

Andrea B. Troxel

#141173

Overall Influence

#6664

Motoko Kotani

#119966

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Motoko Kotani is a Japanese applied mathematician, specializing in discrete geometric analysis and crystallography, and an academic administrator. She is the executive vice president for research for Tohoku University, the former executive director of Riken, the former president of the Mathematical Society of Japan, and the president-elect of the International Science Council.

#6665

John Michael Wallace

#56047

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

John Michael Wallace , is a professor of Atmospheric Sciencess at the University of Washington, as well as the former director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean —a joint research venture between the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .

#6666

Chiu-Yen Kao

#110924

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Chiu-Yen Kao is a Taiwanese-American applied mathematician specializing in shape optimization, image segmentation, and mathematical biology. She is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna College.

#6667

Debashish Goswami

#112743

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Debashish Goswami is an Indian mathematician. He obtained his PhD degree from Indian Statistical Institute under the supervision of Kalyan Bidhan Sinha. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2012, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

#6668

Earl Francis Cook

#141262

Overall Influence

#6669

Laurent Meijer

#141266

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

#6670

Alfred A. Bartolucci

#141284

Overall Influence

#6671

Wilson Sutherland

#137483

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

Wilson Alexander Sutherland was a British mathematician at the University of Oxford. Sutherland earned a doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1963 under the joint supervision of J. H. C. Whitehead and Ioan James, with a dissertation in algebraic topology. He was, for many years, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford, and a mathematics tutor at New College. He also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Manchester, and, as a visiting professor, at Yale University and the University of Aberdeen.

#6672

Jay Alden Conger

#141350

Overall Influence

#6673

Nicole Megow

#89779

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Nicole Megow is a German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and online algorithms for scheduling. She is a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Bremen.

#6674

Oldrich Alfonso Vasicek

#141365

Overall Influence

#6675

Diana Miglioretti

#126863

Overall Influence

Diana Lynn Miglioretti is an American biostatistician specializing in the availability and effectiveness of breast cancer screening and in radiation hazards from medical imaging; she has also studied connections between Down syndrome and leukemia. She is Dean's Professor of Public Health Sciences and head of the biostatistics division in the UC Davis School of Medicine. She co-leads the U.S. Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

#6676

Arnfinn Laudal

#58705

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Olav Arnfinn Laudal is a Norwegian mathematician. Early life and education O.A. Laudal was born in Kirkenes as the son of teachers Trygve Laudal and Agnes Mønnesland . He finished his secondary education in 1954 in Mandal, and enrolled in the University of Oslo in the same year.

#6677

Tasso J. Kaper

#137314

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Tasso Joost Kaper is an American mathematician at Boston University, where he chairs the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His research concerns dynamical systems and applied mathematics. Kaper's father is Hans G. Kaper, a Dutch-born retired mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory. Tasso Kaper did his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1986. He earned a Ph.D. in 1992 from the California Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Stephen Wiggins. On finishing his doctorate, he joined the faculty at Boston University, where he has remained. He ...

#6678

Robert Allen Tobey

#141526

Overall Influence

#6679

Franco Flandoli

#141530

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

#6680

Paul Attfield

#59999

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

John Paul Attfield is a Professor of Materials science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions . Education Attfield was educated at Durham Johnston School in Durham, England and the University of Oxford where he was a student at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham and Peter Battle.

#6681

Stephen Michael Cohen

#141650

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

#6682

Jian‐qiang Wang

#141670

Overall Influence

#6683

Sheldon H. Jacobson

#96256

Overall Influence

Sheldon H. Jacobson is an American educator, noted for contributions that apply operations research to problems related to aviation security, public health, Presidential election forecasting, and NCAA basketball. He holds the position of Founder Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#6684

Martin Schlichenmaier

#69547

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Martin Schlichenmaier is a German - Luxembourgish mathematician whose research deals with algebraic, geometric and analytic mathematical methods which partly have relations to theoretical and mathematical physics.

#6685

Syed Tauseef Mohyud-din,

#141739

Overall Influence

#6686

Yingying Fan

#102996

Overall Influence

Yingying Fan is a Chinese-American statistician and Centennial Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She is currently the Associate Dean for the PhD Program at USC Marshall. She also holds joint appointments at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Keck Medicine of USC. Her contributions to statistics and data science were recognized by the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze in 2017 and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture in 2023.

#6687

Fa-wang Liu

#141830

Overall Influence

#6688

Daniel Kressner

#128899

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Daniel Kressner is a German numerical analyst. He has a Chair of Numerical Algorithms and High Performance Computing in the Institute of Mathematics at EPF Lausanne. Education and career Kressner was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He studied Mathematics at TU Chemnitz from 1997 to 2001 and gained his PhD from TU Berlin in 2004. His PhD thesis was supervised by Volker Mehrmann. He was appointed assistant professor in Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich in 2007. In 2011 he was appointed tenure-track assistant professor in Mathematics at EPF Lausanne, where he became associate professor in 2012 and full professor in 2017.

#6689

Joshua Vogelstein

#93317

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Joshua T. Vogelstein is an American biomedical engineer. He is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he sits at the Center for Imaging Science. Vogelstein also holds joint appointments in the departments of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biostatistics, and Neuroscience. He has appointments in the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences, Institute for Computational Medicine, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science.

#6690

Elliott Ward Cheney Jr.

#131106

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Elliott Ward Cheney Jr. was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Known to his friends and colleagues as Ward Cheney, he was one of the pioneers in the fields of approximation theory and numerical analysis. His 1966 book, An Introduction to Approximation Theory, remains in print and is "highly respected and well known", "a small book almost encyclopedic in character", and "is a classic with few competitors".

#6691

David G. Schaeffer

#141910

Overall Influence

#6692

Masaru Okabe

#141946

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#6693

Richard J. Hanson

#141955

Overall Influence

#6694

Morris Albert. Adelman

#141974

Overall Influence

#6695

Tony Ross

#10285

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Anthony Lee Ross is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books. In Britain, he is best known for writing and illustrating his Little Princess books and for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon, both of which have become TV series for Milkshake! and CITV respectively based on his artwork. He also illustrates the works of David Walliams. He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, the Dr. Xargle series by Jeanne Willis, and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks.

#6696

Wade D. Cook

#142068

Overall Influence

#6697

Erwin Lutwak

#106345

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Erwin Lutwak , is a mathematician. Lutwak is professor emeritus at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in New York City. His main research interests are convex geometry and its connections with analysis and information theory.

#6698

Albert A. Mullin

#90233

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Albert Mullin was an American engineer and Mathematician who is best known for his postulation of the Euclid–Mullin sequence. Biography Early life Albert Mullin was born on August 25, 1933, to LeRoy Mullin and Alleyne Mullin in Lynn, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 1955. He went on to earn a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois.

#6699

Fang Lee Cooke

#142122

Overall Influence

#6700

John C. Bailar III

#140318

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

John Christian Bailar III was an American statistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He died at the age of 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016. He was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in chemistry in 1953, from Yale University with an M.D. in 1955, and from American University with a Ph.D. in statistics in 1973. At American University he met his wife, fellow statistician Barbara A. Bailar.

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