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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6751

John Alan Robinson

#143493

Overall Influence

#6752

Nigel Martin

#115522

Overall Influence

Nigel Martin is a British politician and mathematician. He was a member of Durham County Council, representing Neville's Cross from 1985 to 2017. He is a Liberal Democrat, and was leader of the party in the council from 1989-2013. He was also a member of Durham City Council from 1995 to 1999, and from 2007 to 2009, when the council was abolished, and has been a member of Framwellgate Moor Parish Council since 2017.

#6753

Gerta Rücker

#124942

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Gerta Rücker is a German statistician known for her expertise in meta-analysis, and in its application to studies of borderline personality disorder. She is a researcher in the Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics at the University of Freiburg.

#6754

René A. Carmona

#143582

Overall Influence

#6755

Sergio Fajardo

#72791

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Sergio Fajardo Valderrama is a Colombian politician and mathematician. Fajardo served as the governor of Antioquia from 2012 to 2016. He first entered politics in 2003 when he was elected Mayor of Medellin, the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of Antioquia. Fajardo was the vice presidential nominee of Antanas Mockus in 2010, finishing in second place after losing the runoff against Juan Manuel Santos and Angelino Garzon. Fajardo brands himself as a pragmatic politician with no particular ideology, with political analysts and media outlets in Colombia labelling him as a centri...

#6756

Junhong Chen

#143592

Overall Influence

#6757

Eric Stephen Barnes

#133529

Overall Influence

1924 - 2000 (76 years)

Eric Stephen Barnes , was an Australian pure mathematician. He was awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal in 1959, and was Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1954.

#6758

Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds

Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds

#105748

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds was a Latvian computer scientist and mathematician. He was a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences from 1992. He discovered Freivalds' algorithm for checking the correctness of matrix products. He also taught at the University of Latvia, with students including Daina Taimiņa and Andris Ambainis. He was born in Cesvaine and studied at Moscow State University .

#6759

Philippe Delsarte

#143718

Overall Influence

#6760

Anatoly A. Kilbas

#143752

Overall Influence

#6761

Paik Un-gyu

#114614

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Paik Un-gyu is a South Korean professor of energy engineering at Hanyang University previously served as President Moon Jae-in's first Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy. Before entering public service in 2017, he worked as a technology advisor to two major semiconductor companies in South Korea, Samsung SDI and SK Hynix.

#6762

Steve Brooks

#119126

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.

#6763

Laurent Praly

#143867

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

#6764

Paul R. Kleindorfer

#143915

Overall Influence

#6765

Jean-Marc Egly

#99117

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Jean-Marc Egly, born on 27 December 1945, is a French molecular biology researcher specialising in the field of transcription. Research Director at Inserm, he was also Chairman of the Scientific Council of the ARC from 2006 to 2011. He is a member of the French Academy of sciences.

#6766

Tilmann Gneiting

#143963

Overall Influence

#6767

Erich Grotewold

#143964

Overall Influence

#6768

Joseph Neisendorfer

#139696

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Joseph Alvin Neisendorfer is an American mathematician known for his work in homotopy theory, an area of algebraic topology. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Education and career Neisendorfer earned his bachelor's degree in 1967 from the University of Chicago. He earned his master's degree in 1968 and his doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University, working under the direction of John Coleman Moore.

#6769

Jacques Blacher

#143968

Overall Influence

#6770

Bertrand Thirion

#143973

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

#6771

Rodrigo Bañuelos

#139994

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Rodrigo Bañuelos is an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His research is in probability and its applications to harmonic analysis and spectral theory.

#6772

Brian Ford

#92795

Overall Influence

Brian Ford is a British Mathematician who founded, and until his retirement in 2004, was director of the Numerical Algorithms Group . Ford gained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Nottingham. The NAG project began in 1970 as a collaborative venture, led by Ford, between the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. In 1973 the project moved to Oxford and was renamed. Ford was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1989 in "recognition of outstanding services to British industry and research" In 2005 he was...

#6773

Paul Manneville

#144013

Overall Influence

#6774

Karen Brucks

#126885

Overall Influence

1957 - 2017 (60 years)

Karen Marie Brucks was an American mathematician known for her research in topological dynamics, and for her advocacy of women in mathematics. She worked for many years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

#6775

Mark Henry Hansen

#47041

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Mark Henry Hansen is an American statistician, professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. His special interest is the intersection of data, art and technology. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to data science, drawing on various branches of applied mathematics, information theory and new media arts. Within the field of journalism, Hansen has promoted coding literacy for journalists.

#6776

Walter Zidek

#144107

Overall Influence

#6777

Curtis L. Meinert

#86379

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Curtis Lynea Meinert was an American clinical trialist. He was a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Life Meinert was born on June 30, 1934, on a farm outside Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. His parents were Mabel Eleanor Christensen and Arthur August Edward Meinert. He was raised in rural Minnesota. He completed a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1956. He earned a doctor of philosophy in statistics at University of Minnesota in 1964. His dissertation was titled Quantitation of the isotope displacement of immunoassay of insulin.

#6778

Frederick S. I. Hillier

#144161

Overall Influence

#6779

Pierre Rouchon

#144173

Overall Influence

#6780

Eve Torrence

#122230

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Eve Alexandra Littig Torrence is an American mathematician, a professor emerita of mathematics at Randolph–Macon College, and a former president of mathematics society Pi Mu Epsilon. She is known for her award-winning writing and books in mathematics, for her mathematical origami art, and for her efforts debunking overly broad claims regarding the ubiquity of the golden ratio.

#6781

Andrew Booker

#62967

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Andrew Richard Booker is a British mathematician who is currently Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He is an analytic number theorist known for his work on L-functions of automorphic forms and his contributions to the sums of three cubes problem.

#6782

Vladimír Sládek

#144265

Overall Influence

#6783

Vicki Hertzberg

#90630

Overall Influence

Vicki Stover Hertzberg is an American biostatistician, who is currently professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University, where she founded and continues to direct its Center for Data Science. Previously she worked as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University between 1994 and 2015, serving as the department chair 1994-2001.

#6784

Sidney Holgate

#84589

Overall Influence

1918 - 2003 (85 years)

Sidney Holgate, was a British mathematician and academic. Holgate was schooled at Henry Mellish School and won a scholarship to Hatfield College, Durham, where he studied Mathematics and eventually became Senior Man. He was also President of the Durham Union for Michaelmas term of 1940. Being unacceptable for wartime service on medical grounds, he instead taught for a year at Nottingham High School, before returning to Durham and completing his doctorate in 1945.

#6785

Suresh Venapally

Suresh Venapally

#103959

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Suresh Venepally is an Indian mathematician known for his research work in algebra. He is a professor at Emory University. Background Suresh was born in Vangoor, Telangana, India and studied in ZPHS at Vangoor up to 9th standard. He did his M.Sc at University of Hyderabad. He joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1989 and got his PhD in under the guidance of Raman Parimala . He later joined the faculty at University of Hyderabad.

#6786

Howard Friedman

#33994

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Howard Steven Friedman is a prominent American statistician, data scientist, health economist, and writer who teaches at Columbia University Friedman is widely known for his role as a lead statistical modeler on a number of key United Nations projects and for his wide-ranging publications in the fields of statistics, data science and health economics.

#6787

Christopher John Lindsell

#144399

Overall Influence

#6788

Stanisław Migórski

#144424

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#6789

Jennifer A. Hoeting

#68134

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Jennifer Ann Hoeting is an American statistician known for her work with Adrian Raftery, David Madigan, and others on Bayesian model averaging. She is a professor of statistics at Colorado State University, and executive editor of the open-access journal Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, published by Copernicus Publications. With Geof H. Givens, a colleague at Colorado State, she is the author of Computational Statistics , a graduate textbook on computational methods in statistics.

#6790

Yakov A. Pachepsky

#144496

Overall Influence

#6791

Jiří Patera

#120433

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Jiří Patera was a Czech-born Canadian mathematician and academic. He taught at the Université de Montréal and was known for his work in group theory, Lie groups, and cryptography. Life and career Patera attended secondary school in Děčín and subsequently studied theoretical physics at Moscow State University. There he met and married Tatiana Chalnikova. In 1964, he earned a doctorate from Charles University, pursued a postdoc at the University of Montreal and returned to Prague in 1966. In August of 1968, with Soviet tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia, he emigrated with Tatiana and their daughter first to the UK and finally settling in Montreal, Canada, a year later.

#6792

Mathieu Laversanne

#144580

Overall Influence

#6793

Junichi Hatazawa

#144630

Overall Influence

#6794

Lothar Reichel

#144683

Overall Influence

#6795

Eva Gallardo

#121911

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Eva Antonia Gallardo-Gutiérrez is a Spanish mathematician specializing in operator theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid, deputy director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences , and the president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.

#6796

Christophe Croux

#144730

Overall Influence

#6797

Damien Doligez

#20069

Overall Influence

Damien Doligez is a French academic and programmer. He is best known for his role as a developer of the OCaml system, especially its garbage collector. He is a research scientist at the French government research institution INRIA.

#6798

Feng‐yu Wang

#144750

Overall Influence

#6799

Richard Buckingham

#36484

Overall Influence

1911 - 1994 (83 years)

Richard Arthur Buckingham FBCS FRSA was an English particle physicist, mathematician and computer scientist long on the staff of the University of London. He was also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts and chaired the Technical Committee for Education of the International Federation for Information Processing. He was also the originator of the Buckingham potential formula.

#6800

Lasse Rempe

#137761

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Lasse Rempe is a German mathematician born in Kiel. His research interests include holomorphic dynamics, function theory, continuum theory and computational complexity theory. He currently holds the position of Professor for Pure Mathematics, and Deputy Head of Department for REF at the University of Liverpool. Rempe recorded the voiceover for a BBC feature on the art of mathematics, where he explained how certain pictures have arisen from dynamical systems.

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