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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#6901

Thomas Laurell

#147892

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

#6902

Carlisle Adams

#57119

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Carlisle M. Adams is a Canadian cryptographer and computer security researcher. Formerly senior cryptographer at Entrust, he is currently a professor at the University of Ottawa. His notable work includes the design of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256, whose S-boxes are based on the non-linear properties of bent functions. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography workshop in 1994. He is also the security advisor of the Ottawa-based electronic signature company Signority.

#6903

Dan Kalman

#128163

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Daniel "Dan" Simon Kalman is an American mathematician and winner of nine awards for expository writing in mathematics. Education and career After graduating from Oakland High School in 1970, Kalman matriculated at Harvey Mudd College, where he graduated in 1974. From 1974 to 1980 he was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his PhD in 1980. He was from 1978 to 1979 an instructor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and from 1979 to 1983 an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. After teaching as a visiting lecturer from ...

#6904

Vivette Girault

#148120

Overall Influence

#6905

David H. Wegman

#148249

Overall Influence

#6906

Vithala R. Rao

#101735

Overall Influence

Vithala R. Rao is the Deane Malott Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing and Quantitative Methods at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He is known for his work on marketing research, conjoint analysis and multidimensional scaling. He is a Fellow of the American Marketing Association.

#6907

Hannu Oja

#129917

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Hannu Frans Vilhelm Oja is a Finnish mathematical statistician and biostatistician known for his contribution to nonparametric inference, robust statistics, and multivariate statistical methods. He introduced the Oja median for multivariate distributions.

#6908

Lajos Pukánszky

#148284

Overall Influence

1928 - 1996 (68 years)

Lajos Pukánszky was a Hungarian and American mathematician noted for his work in representation theory of solvable Lie groups. He was born in Budapest on November 24, 1928, defended his thesis in 1955 at the University of Szeged under Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy, but left Hungary in 1956. After taking several posts in the United States , in 1965 he became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he stayed until his retirement. He gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970. In 1988 a conference entitled "The Orbit Method in Representation Theory" was held at the University of Copenhagen in honor of his sixtieth birthday.

#6909

Marcos Mariño

#148434

Overall Influence

#6910

Efim N. Pelinovsky

#148481

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

#6911

John Grue

#125190

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

John Grue is a Norwegian applied mathematician noted for his contributions to marine hydrodynamics and internal waves. He took the cand.real. degree in 1982 and the dr.philos. degree in 1987, both at the University of Oslo. He stayed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1988, and was appointed associate professor at the University of Oslo in 1990. In 1994 he was promoted to professor. He has later served as guest professor at Harbin Engineering University in China. He was Chair of the Abel Board 2018-2022 of the Abel Prize in mathematics.

#6912

Peter W. Michor

#148544

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

#6913

Dolores Romero Morales

#120840

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

María Dolores Romero Morales is a Spanish operations researcher and professor of operations research at the Copenhagen Business School. Topics in her research include supply chain management, revenue management, and data mining.

#6914

Julien Labreuche

#148593

Overall Influence

#6915

Jean H. Gallier

#148645

Overall Influence

#6916

Andreas Buja

#122943

Overall Influence

Andreas Buja is a Swiss statistician and professor of statistics. He is the Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company professor in the Statistics department of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States. Buja joined Center for Computational Mathematics as a Senior Research Scientist in January 2020.

#6917

Laure Blanc-Féraud

#126977

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Laure Blanc-Féraud is a French applied mathematician and image processing researcher specializing in three-dimensional medical imaging. She is a senior scientist for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes at Côte d'Azur University.

#6918

Heinrich Kleisli

Heinrich Kleisli

#24715

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Heinrich Kleisli was a Swiss mathematician. He is the namesake of several constructions in category theory, including the Kleisli category and Kleisli triples. He is also the namesake of the Kleisli Query System, a tool for integration of heterogeneous databases developed at the University of Pennsylvania.

#6919

John Hogan

#52470

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

S. John Hogan is a professor of Applied Mathematics and leader of the "Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Group" in the Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol. He is known for his work in numerous applications of non-linear dynamics including water waves liquid crystals.

#6920

Katharina T. Huber

#130234

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Katharina Theresia Huber is a German applied mathematician and mathematical biologist whose research concerns phylogenetic trees, evolutionary analysis, their mathematical foundations, and their mathematical visualization. She is an associate professor in the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia in England, and the school's director of postgraduate research.

#6921

Boris A. Kupershmidt

#148868

Overall Influence

#6922

A. Favorite Jeffrey

#148895

Overall Influence

#6923

Begoña Vitoriano

#130184

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Begoña Vitoriano Villanueva is a Spanish applied mathematician and operations researcher whose work concerns the logistics of humanitarian aid and disaster relief. She is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research at the Complutense University of Madrid, and the president of the Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society.

#6924

Ahmet Beki̇r

#149027

Overall Influence

#6925

Claus Peter Ortlieb

#90428

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Claus Peter Ortlieb, born 1 May 1947 in Reinbek, died on 15 September 2019, was a German mathematician , critic of work, critic of political economy, and a critic of contemporary science, especially regarding its use of mathematics. As well as an editor for the journal EXIT!.

#6926

Benjamin Batson

#71631

Overall Influence

1942 - 1996 (54 years)

Benjamin Batson was an American mathematician and historian who studied 20th century Thai history. He spent almost his entire professional life in Southeast Asia. Biography Batson was born in Tennessee in 1942. Batson earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1963 at Harvard College- where he was elected to membership of Phi Beta Kappa and played on the Harvard chess team. He briefly returned Tennessee to work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He then moved to Thailand, teaching mathematics at Chulalongkorn University from 1964-66. After completing a master's degree under Walter Vella ...

#6927

Dominique Richon

#149094

Overall Influence

#6928

Dmitry Dolgopyat

#125193

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Dmitry Dolgopyat is a Russian-American mathematician at the University of Maryland known for his research in dynamical systems. Biography He graduated from Moscow State School 57 mathematical class in 1989. From 1989 to 1994, he was an undergraduate student at Moscow State University. From 1994 to 1997, he was enrolled in Princeton University, where he earned a PhD under the guidance of Yakov Sinai.

#6929

Dorothy M. Gilford

#96164

Overall Influence

1919 - 2014 (95 years)

Dorothy Morrow Gilford was an American statistician who headed the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the Office of Naval Research, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. She was the editor of The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy .

#6930

John Joseph Finnigan

#149296

Overall Influence

#6931

Alicia L. Carriquiry

#103194

Overall Influence

Alicia Laura Carriquiry is a Uruguayan statistician. She is a distinguished professor of statistics at Iowa State University, and was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2001. Her research applies Bayesian statistics to nutrition, genomics, forensics, and traffic safety.

#6932

James Gillogly

#33817

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

James J. Gillogly is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. Biography Early life His interest in cryptography stems from his boyhood, as did his interest in mathematics. By junior high he was inventing his own ciphers and challenging his father, entomologist Lorin Gillogly, to solve them.

#6933

Vidar Thomée

#149377

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

#6934

Jian-er Chen

#149393

Overall Influence

#6935

W. Stephen Wilson

#118901

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

W. Stephen Wilson is a mathematician based in Johns Hopkins University specializing in homotopy theory. Wilson received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972 under the supervision of Franklin Paul Peterson.

#6936

Joseph J. Rotman

#149452

Overall Influence

#6937

Jonathan Mboyo Esole

Jonathan Mboyo Esole

#122027

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Jonathan Mboyo Esole is an associate professor of mathematics at Northeastern University. He works on the geometry of string theory. Early life and career Esole was born in Kinshasa and attended Collège Boboto. He moved to Belgium at the age of three and did not return to the Congo for six years. He studied at the Free University of Brussels, the same university his father had attended. In his thesis, Unicité de la supergravité D=4 N=1 par les méthodes BRST, he demonstrated the uniqueness of N=1 supergravity in four spacetime dimensions with minimal assumptions using homological methods. This...

#6938

Douglas W. Nychka

#149481

Overall Influence

#6939

Dominic J. A. Welsh

#149487

Overall Influence

#6940

Geoffrey Anton Watterson

#149497

Overall Influence

#6941

Jacques Schrenzel

#149510

Overall Influence

#6942

Claudia Biermann

#149539

Overall Influence

#6943

Sophie Dabo-Niang

#129661

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Sophie Dabo-Niang is a Senegalese and French mathematician, statistician, and professor who has done outreach to increase the status of African mathematicians. Biography Early life Sophie was encouraged to pursue mathematics by her parents and her teachers. She knew she wanted to study mathematics early in high school.

#6944

Eugene M. Izhikevich

#149569

Overall Influence

#6945

Mark Tomforde

#121927

Overall Influence

Mark Tomforde is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He works in the areas of functional analysis and algebra, and he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Dartmouth College in 2002. Tomforde's research interests are in operator algebras and C*-algebras, and he has made contributions to the study of graph C*-algebras and Leavitt path algebras. He was an invited speaker at the 2015 Abel Symposium, and he is a founding member of the Algebras and Rings in Colorado Springs center. He has also received several awards for his teaching ...

#6946

James Grieve Oxley

#149626

Overall Influence

#6947

Umile Giuseppe Longo

#149631

Overall Influence

#6948

Hervé Fernandez

#149638

Overall Influence

#6949

William Zame

#118376

Overall Influence

William R. Zame is an American economist and mathematician, and distinguished professor of economics. Dr Zame earned his PhD degree at Tulane University. Before joining the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991, he held appointments in the Mathematics Departments of Rice University, Tulane University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in the Economics and Mathematics Departments at The Johns Hopkins University. His research areas are Experimental Economics, Finance, Game Theory, Microeconomic. Research topics include the impact of culture on economic outcomes in diver...

#6950

Russell V. Lenth

#149771

Overall Influence

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