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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#7351

Michael James Smithson

#160861

Overall Influence

#7352

Man Kam. Kwong

#160867

Overall Influence

#7353

Derek W. Moore

#158129

Overall Influence

1931 - 2008 (77 years)

Derek William Moore was a British mathematician. He was born in South Shields, where his father was a head of department at the nautical college. He was educated at the local grammar school and Jesus College, Cambridge.

#7354

Shōji Yamanaka

#160953

Overall Influence

#7355

Gottlob Frege

#161027

Overall Influence

#7356

Hermann Dr. Rer. Nat. Rohling

#161114

Overall Influence

#7357

Jacek Banasiak

#143095

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Jacek Banasiak FAAS is a Polish mathematician who is a Professor and South African Research Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

#7358

Nadia Ghazzali

#69115

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Nadia Ghazzali is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.

#7359

Rajan Batta

#98454

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Rajan Batta is an American operations research scientist, and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at University at Buffalo. Batta earned his doctorate in Operations Research in 1984 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of University at Buffalo faculty beginning in 1984. He also has had several administrative appointments, including Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Interim Dean, and Associate Dean in various capacities of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo . At present, he serves in the role of Associate D...

#7360

Alexander Kiselev

#131025

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Alexander A. Kiselev is an American mathematician, specializing in spectral theory, partial differential equations, and fluid mechanics. Career Alexander Kiselev received his bachelor's degree in 1992 from Saint Petersburg State University and his PhD in 1997 from Caltech under supervision of Barry Simon. In 1997-1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, where he co-authored a paper on Christ–Kiselev maximal inequality. Between 1998 and 2002 he was an E. Dickson Instructor and then assistant professor at the University of Chicago where he worked with Peter Constantin on reaction-diffusion equations and fluid mechanics.

#7361

William Norrie Everitt

#161369

Overall Influence

#7362

Bruce M. Hill

#161405

Overall Influence

#7363

Gan Wee Teck

#160303

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Gan Wee Teck is a Malaysian mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore . He is known for his work on automorphic forms and representation theory in the context of the Langlands program, especially the theory of theta correspondence, the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture and the Langlands program for Brylinski–Deligne covering groups.

#7364

Amita Manatunga

#107684

Overall Influence

Amita Kalyanie Manatunga is a Sri Lankan 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. Her research interests include survival analysis, inter-rater reliability, environmental epidemiology, and medical imaging of the kidneys.

#7365

Antony Unwin

#107619

Overall Influence

Antony Richard Unwin is an academic statistician and software developer. He is known for his work on interactive statistical graphics and the development of exploratory statistical software for large data sets using the programming language R.

#7366

George A. Elliott

#161535

Overall Influence

#7367

James Caldwell

#128949

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

James Caldwell is a Northern Irish mathematician. Education Caldwell was educated at Macosquin Primary School, then Coleraine Academical Institution followed by Queen's University of Belfast; Professor James Caldwell obtained his BSc degree in applied mathematics and his MSc degree in numerical analysis from Queen's University Belfast in 1964 and 1966, respectively. In 1974 he was awarded his PhD degree in "Magnetostatic Field Calculations", under Dennis Gibson, from Teesside University.

#7368

Mathieu Desbrun

#161557

Overall Influence

#7369

Philip William Lavori

#161695

Overall Influence

#7370

Donald Wilson Zimmerman

#161732

Overall Influence

#7371

Roger Dr. Cambridge Baker

#161769

Overall Influence

#7372

Nail H. Ibragimov

#161785

Overall Influence

#7373

Martin Abba Tanner

#161838

Overall Influence

#7374

Cristina Butucea

#72524

Overall Influence

Cristina Butucea is a French statistician at ENSAE Paris and at the University of Paris-Est, known for her work on non-parametric statistics, density estimation, and deconvolution. Butucea completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her dissertation, Estimation non-paramétrique adaptative de la densité de probabilité, was supervised by Alexandre Tsybakov.

#7375

Nicolas Penel

#161859

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

#7376

Samuel Segun Okoya

Samuel Segun Okoya

#131953

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Samuel Segun Okoya is an academic in applied mathematics at Obafemi Awolowo University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal and Notices of the Nigerian Mathematical Society and the First Occupier of Pastor E.A Adeboye Outstanding Professor of Mathematics University of Lagos. He is the first fully bred alumnus to attain the position of professor and head of the Mathematics Department at Obafemi Awolowo University.

#7377

Henry Krakauer

#161926

Overall Influence

#7378

William G. Bade

William G. Bade

#118064

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

William George Bade was an American mathematician, who did his most significant work on Banach algebras. Biography Bade's father was scholar William F. Badè, who died in 1936. After his father's death, Bade moved with his mother and sister from Berkeley to San Diego, where he graduated from high school in 1942. He spent his freshman year in college at Pomona College and then, under the V-12 Navy College Training Program, studied at Caltech, where he received his bachelor's physics degree in 1945. He received more training which continued until after the end of WW II. After active duty as a Disbursing Officer in the U.S.

#7379

Mihaly Mezei

#161972

Overall Influence

#7380

Tomás Caraballo

#162018

Overall Influence

#7381

János C. Fodor

#162026

Overall Influence

#7382

Jacques Albert

#162059

Overall Influence

#7383

Sukumar Raman Chakravarthy

#162115

Overall Influence

#7384

Leroy F. Meyers

#131442

Overall Influence

1927 - 1995 (68 years)

Leroy Frederick Meyers was a mathematician. Early life Meyers was the son of Joseph Meyers and Lillian Meyers née Gershun. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, attending Queens College and later Syracuse University . He wrote his dissertation on "Certain Transformations of Hermitian Functionals" under advisor Charles Loewner.

#7385

Leonard John Lewis

#38623

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Leonard John Lewis was a British academic. He worked as an educationalist in Nigeria and was a lecturer at the Institute of Education of the University of London. He served as Principal of the University of Zimbabwe for the transition to Zimbabwe's independence, despite his somewhat controversial views on education and politics. He has published a number of books on education policy.

#7386

Norman Riley

#162149

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#7387

Hong Guo Zhu

#162195

Overall Influence

#7388

Jean-paul Zolésio

#162203

Overall Influence

#7389

Paula Norwood

#46969

Overall Influence

Paula King Norwood is a retired American biostatistician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry on statistical aspects of drug development and clinical trials. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.

#7390

J.j.m. Barendregt

#162308

Overall Influence

#7391

Ralph E. Showalter

#162318

Overall Influence

#7392

Gregory Conrad Johnson

#162360

Overall Influence

#7393

Stefan Michiels

#162384

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

#7394

David Levin

#162410

Overall Influence

#7395

Jim Agler

#162414

Overall Influence

Jim Agler is a mathematician who is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2016, for "contributions to operator theory and the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables".

#7396

Lisa Weissfeld

#141371

Overall Influence

Lisa Anderson Weissfeld is an American biostatistician whose publications include work on the risks, prognoses, and treatment outcomes for pneumonia, sepsis, and end-of-life care; she is one of the authors of the pneumonia severity index. She has also published basic research on sparse data in meta-analysis, on multicollinearity, and on the dichotomization of ordinal data, and is one of the namesakes of the Wei–Lin–Weissfeld model in recurrent event analysis. She worked for many years as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

#7397

Antonis Papachristodoulou

#162449

Overall Influence

#7398

Benjamin Rossman

#129131

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Benjamin E. Rossman is an American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, specializing in computational complexity theory. He is currently an associate professor of computer science and mathematics at Duke University.

#7399

Michael W. Berry

#162483

Overall Influence

#7400

Lianne Sheppard

#120106

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Anne Sheppard is an American statistician. She specializes in biostatistics and environmental statistics, and in particular in the effects of air quality on health. She is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health. In 2021, Dr. Sheppard was named to the Rohm & Haas Endowed Professorship of Public Health Sciences.

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