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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6851

Rosario Tumino

#146250

Overall Influence

#6852

Roger Balian

#146279

Overall Influence

#6853

Amy Braverman

#81110

Overall Influence

Amy J. Braverman is an American statistician who analyzes remote sensing data and climate models as a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has also served as co-chair of the Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.

#6854

Ivor Etherington

#108155

Overall Influence

1908 - 1994 (86 years)

Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington FRSE was a mathematician who worked initially on general relativity, and later on genetics and introduced genetic algebras. Life He was born in Lewisham in London the son of Annie Margaret and her husband Bruce Etherington, both of whom were Baptist missionaries normally based in Ceylon. His father had died in Ceylon, leaving his mother and two older siblings to return to Britain alone. His mother remarried in 1913 to Edwin Duncombe de Russet, a Baptist minister, but Ivor retained his original name. In 1921 the growing family moved out of London to Thorpe Bay on the Essex coast, where his father then founded the Thorpe Bay School for Boys.

#6855

Theodor A. Gasser

#146403

Overall Influence

#6856

Pierre‑yves Bard

#146432

Overall Influence

#6857

Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky

#6780

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Jonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit, Maine. Early life and education Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966. He lived in Manhattan until a teaching position at the California Institute of the Arts brought him to Los Angeles in 1977. He resided in Venice and Tuna Canyon, Los Angeles from 1977 to 1992, In the 1960s, Borofsky'...

#6858

Ronald Cramer

#67645

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Ronald John Fitzgerald Cramer is a professor at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam and the University of Leiden. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. Prior to returning to the Netherlands he was at the University of Aarhus.

#6859

Robert J. Kohn

#146689

Overall Influence

#6860

Michael Useem

#60677

Overall Influence

Michael Useem is an American academic. He is the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also the director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management. He is the author of several books.

#6861

Leetsch C. Hsu

#110453

Overall Influence

1920 - 2019 (99 years)

Xu Lizhi , better known as Leetsch Charles Hsu, was a Chinese mathematician and educator. He co-founded the Department of Mathematics of Jilin University and founded the Institute of Applied Mathematics and the Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications at the Dalian University of Technology. Together with American mathematician Henry W. Gould, he established the Gould–Hsu Matrix Inversion Formula in 1973.

#6862

Wolfhard Janke

#146740

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

#6863

Kaye Basford

#115718

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Kaye Enid Basford is an Australian statistician and biometrician who applies statistical methods to plant genetics. She is a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Queensland, and head of the school. She was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2005 to 2007, and president of the International Biometric Society from 2010 to 2011. Before moving to Biomedical Sciences, she was the head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2010.

#6864

Dmitry Matveyevich Smirnov

#146802

Overall Influence

Dmitry Matveyevich Smirnov was a Soviet mathematician working in group theory and Jónsson–Tarski algebras. Bibliography

#6865

Kate Okikiolu

#43393

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Kate Adebola Okikiolu is a British mathematician. She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children. Early life and education Okikiolu was born in 1965 in England. Her father was George Olatokunbo Okikiolu, a renowned Nigerian mathematician and the most published black mathematician on record. Her British mother was a high school mathematics teacher. Okikiolu received a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles, for her thesis The ...

#6866

Michael C. Fu

#146846

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

#6867

Chris Turney

#47717

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Christian S. M. Turney is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Technology Sydney. He was previously the Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science and Director of the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre and the Chronos Facility at the University of New South Wales.

#6868

Dorota Dabrowska

#126790

Overall Influence

Dorota Maria Dabrowska is a Polish statistician known for applying nonparametric statistics and semiparametric models to counting processes and survival analysis. Dabrowska's estimator, from her paper "Kaplan–Meier estimate on the plane" is a widely used tool for bivariate survival under random censoring.

#6869

Ivan Todorov Todorov

#147008

Overall Influence

#6870

Ching-Li Chai

#111563

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Ching-Li Chai is a Taiwanese mathematician. Career Chai completed his doctoral thesis, Compactification of the Siegel Moduli Schemes, in 1984, under the supervision of David Mumford at Harvard University. Chai was the Francis J. Carey Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2012. He was elected to membership of Academia Sinica in 2010.

#6871

Lawrence A. Mysak

Lawrence A. Mysak

#130499

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Lawrence Mysak, is a Canadian applied mathematician, working primarily on physical oceanography, and climate research, particularly arctic and palaeoclimate research. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Lawrence earned his B.Sc. in applied mathematics in 1961 from the University of Alberta along with his Assoc. Mus. , his M.Sc. from the University of Adelaide in 1963 and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967. Lawrence continues to play the flute now with the I Medici di McGill orchestra.

#6872

Martin T. Schechter

#147092

Overall Influence

#6873

Mary-jane H. Gething

#147134

Overall Influence

#6874

Lucien Birgé

#96757

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Lucien Birgé is a French mathematician. Education and career Lucien Birgé studied from 1970 to 1974 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then became an assistant at the Pierre and Marie Curie University . In 1980 he received his doctorate from the Paris Diderot University . The following year he became a professor at the Paris Nanterre University. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie.

#6875

James Francis Peters

#147234

Overall Influence

#6876

Norman A. Chigier

#147247

Overall Influence

#6877

Caitlin E. Buck

#128860

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Caitlin E. Buck is a British archaeologist and statistician specialising the application of Bayesian statistics to archaeology, and known for her work in radiocarbon dating. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.

#6878

Jan Van Mill

#147325

Overall Influence

#6879

Olga Umnova

#82010

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Olga Umnova is Russian-born British academic, lecturer in theoretical acoustics in the acoustics department at the University of Salford. In recognition of her contribution to the field of acoustics, she was awarded the prestigious Tyndall Medal by the Institute of Acoustics in 2010.

#6880

M. J. M. Parrot

#147333

Overall Influence

#6881

John Dunning Boice

#147373

Overall Influence

#6882

Tove Agner

#147391

Overall Influence

#6883

Dennis Gibson

#87714

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Robert Dennis Gibson is a British-born Australian academic and mathematician. He was the chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, from 2003–2010. He is a member of the Council of Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia, and a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich in London, England. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, for 21 years, before he retired in 2003 and was appointed the Chancellor of RMIT.

#6884

Sun Yeneng

#117486

Overall Influence

Sun Yeneng is Goh Keng Swee Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore . Sun received his B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and his M.S. and Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign respectively in 1985 and 1989. He joined NUS as a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics in 1989 and was promoted to professor in 2002. He was Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the Department of Economics in NUS from 2009 to 2015.

#6885

Hal S. Stern

#147533

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#6886

Hendrik Albert Lambertus Kiers

#147537

Overall Influence

#6887

Robin Sibson

#82166

Overall Influence

1944 - 2017 (73 years)

Robin Sibson was a British mathematician and educator. He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of statistics at the University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the University of Kent. He was chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001 until 2009. He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research , the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research .

#6888

Sherri Rose

#92847

Overall Influence

Sherri Rose is an American biostatistician. She is an associate professor of health care policy at Stanford University, having formally worked at Harvard University. A fellow of the American Statistical Association, she has served as co-editor of Biostatistics since 2019 and Chair of the American Statistical Association’s Biometrics Section. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning for health care policy.

#6889

Holger Rootzén

#115583

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Holger Rootzén is a Swedish mathematical statistician. He is Professor in Mathematical Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology since 1993. Education and career Rootzén obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 with the thesis On sequences of random variables which are mixing in the sense of Renyi. He has earlier been professor at Lund University and lecturer at University of Copenhagen. Rootzén is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He also serves as adjunct member on the Price Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. H...

#6890

Leo Villareal

#31887

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Leo Villareal is an American artist. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays. He is living and working in New York City. Early life and education Villareal was born in 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in El Paso on both sides of the border. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in 1986. He received a BA degree in Sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, in the Interactive Telecommunications Program .

#6891

Giuseppe Toscani

#147626

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#6892

Kenneth L. Denman

#147672

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#6893

Pavle Papić

#130761

Overall Influence

1919 - 2005 (86 years)

Pavle Papić was a Croatian mathematician. Papić graduated mathematics from the University of Zagreb where in 1953 he received his doctorate degree in mathematics under the supervision of Đuro Kurepa. From 1966 until 1968 he was a dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb, from 1968 until 1974 a director of Institute of Mathematics in Zagreb. Since 1977 he was a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1994 a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#6894

Luisa DiPietro

#73500

Overall Influence

Luisa DiPietro is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. She is Director of the Center for Wound Repair and Tissue Regeneration and a Professor of Periodontics for the College.

#6895

Stefan Langerman

#93779

Overall Influence

Stefan Langerman false Swarzberg is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician whose research topics include computational geometry, data structures, and recreational mathematics. He is professor and co-head of the algorithms research group at the Université libre de Bruxelles with Jean Cardinal. He is a director of research for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique .

#6896

Joel Shapiro

#21612

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Joel Elias Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly defined through the materials used, without allusions to subjects outside of the works. He lives and works in New York City. He is married to the artist Ellen Phelan.

#6897

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

#34978

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee is an Indian inorganic chemist and a professor at the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry department of the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his studies on organic nano structures, molecular sensors and catalysis in nanocages and is a recipient of the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science an...

#6898

John. S. Heywood

#147863

Overall Influence

#6899

Lucio Frydman

#121557

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Lucio Frydman is an Israeli chemist whose research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance and solid-state NMR. He was awarded the 2000 Günther Laukien Prize, the 2013 Russell Varian Prize and the 2021 Ernst Prize. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Chief Scientist in Chemistry and Biology at the US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance and of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

#6900

Bani K. Mallick

#85755

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Bani K. Mallick is a Distinguished Professor and Susan M. Arseven `75 Chair in Data Science and Computational Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University in College Station. He is the Director of the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics. Mallick is well known for his contribution to the theory and practice of Bayesian semiparametric methods and uncertainty quantification. Mallick is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Statistical Institute and the Royal Statistical Society.

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