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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#7701

Walter Craig

#106012

Overall Influence

1953 - 2019 (66 years)

Walter L. Craig was a Canadian mathematician and a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Analysis and Applications at McMaster University. Personal life Craig was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. His father, a professor at Pennsylvania State University transferred to University of California, Berkeley, which is where Craig and his siblings were raised starting in 1959.

#7702

Thomas W. Hawkins Jr.

#146571

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Thomas W. Hawkins Jr. is an American historian of mathematics. Hawkins defended his Ph.D. thesis on "The Origins and Early Development of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 under Robert Creighton Buck. Since 1972 he has been based at Boston University. Hawkins was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974 at Vancouver and in 1986 at Berkeley.

#7703

Jimmy Adegoke

#40283

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

James O. Adegoke is a Nigerian-American climate scientist and professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he served as Chair of the Department of Geosciences . He also served as an appointee of the Mayor of Kansas City Missouri on the city's Environmental Management Commission and has testified before the South Africa Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology and the Climate Change Committee of the Nigerian House of Representatives. In the United States, he has testified at the United States House of Representatives for the United States House Select Committee ...

#7704

Jem Bendell

#45504

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Jem Bendell is an emeritus professor of sustainability leadership with the University of Cumbria in the UK. He is best known for originating in 2018 the concept of "deep adaptation" for individuals and communities anticipating the consequences of ongoing climate change. In 2019 he founded the Deep Adaptation Forum to support peer-to-peer communications in developing positive responses at the individual and community levels to societal disruptions induced by climate change.

#7705

Kimberly Weems

#142669

Overall Influence

Kimberly Sherrille Weems is an American statistician, active in mentoring women and members of underrepresented minority groups in statistics and encouraging them to pursue advanced studies in statistics. She is an associate professor of statistics at North Carolina Central University. Her research interests include count data and statistical dispersion. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree.

#7706

Nagambal Shah

#90214

Overall Influence

Nagambal D. "Swarna" Shah is an American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of students at Spelman College. She is the founder of the annual StatFest of the American Statistical Association, a leader of the association's Diversity Mentoring Program, and the former chair of the association's Committee on Minorities in Statistics.

#7707

Tommaso Buscetta

Tommaso Buscetta

#998

Overall Influence

1928 - 2000 (72 years)

Tommaso Buscetta was a powerful Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He became one of the first of its members to turn informant and explain the inner workings of the organization. Buscetta participated in criminal activity in Italy, the United States and Brazil before being arrested and extradited from Brazil to Italy. He became disillusioned with the Mafia after the murders of several of his family members, and in 1984, decided to cooperate with the authorities. He provided important testimony at the 1986/87 Maxi Trial, the largest anti-Mafia trial in history. After the murde...

#7708

Jon Lovett

#64595

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Jonathan Ira Lovett is an American podcaster, comedian, and former speechwriter. Lovett is a co-founder of Crooked Media, along with fellow former White House staffers during the Obama administration, Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor. Lovett is a regular host of the Crooked Media podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It. As a speechwriter, he worked for President Barack Obama as well as for Hillary Clinton when she was a United States senator and a 2008 presidential candidate. Lovett also co-created the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn, and was a writer and producer on the third season of HBO's The N...

#7709

Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov

#141899

Overall Influence

1915 - 1995 (80 years)

Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov was an Uzbek mathematician who served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1947 to 1952. Early life and education Born in 1915 in Shahrixon to an Uzbek family, in 1931 he graduated from a Russian secondary school in Kokand; he subsequently enrolled in the Central Asia State University. There, he was one of the first students of Vsevolod Romanovsky. After graduating from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the university in 1936, he remained at the university, where he attended graduate school. At the same time, he worked as assistant and associate professor.

#7710

Florencio Utreras

#116945

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Florencio Ignacio Utreras Díaz is a Chilean mathematician who is considered to be one of the fathers of the Internet in Chile. Biography Utreras studied engineering mathematics at the University of Chile, graduating in 1975. Later, in 1979, he earned his doctorate in engineering at Université Grenoble Alpes in France.

#7711

Frank Forelli

#170308

Overall Influence

1932 - 1994 (62 years)

Frank John Forelli, Jr. was an American mathematician, specializing in the functional analysis of holomorphic functions. Forelli received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley and then, after 3 years as an officer in the U. S. Navy, returned to Berkeley. He received there in 1961 his Ph.D. under Henry Helson with thesis Marcel Riesz's theorem on conjugate functions. In 1961 Forelli joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he remained for the remainder of his life.

#7712

Nancy H. Hensel

#69226

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Nancy H. Hensel is an American academic and university administrator. She held faculty positions at the University of Toledo and University of Redlands before joining the University of Maine system in 1992. In 1992[6] Hensel was appointed Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington.[11] From 1995 to 1999 she filled the post of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.[11] In 1999 she was named to a one-year term as interim president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, becoming the second woman to head the campus in its history.[1] In 2000 she acced...

#7713

Bent Jørgensen

#126783

Overall Influence

1954 - 2015 (61 years)

Bent Jørgensen was a Danish statistician from the University of Southern Denmark whose research was focused on two related topics in statistics: dispersion models and the analysis of non-normal correlated data.

#7714

Michael Barber

#78958

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Michael Newton Barber is a mathematician, physicist and academic. He was Vice Chancellor of Flinders University in South Australia from 2008 until 2014. Career Barber studied at the University of New South Wales, where he received the University Medal in applied mathematics and graduated with first class honours. He received a PhD from Cornell University in the USA in theoretical physics in 1972. He is best known for the scaling theory of finite size effects at phase transitions, which he introduced together with Michael Fisher.

#7715

Judith Glynn

#145755

Overall Influence

Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor. Education and early career Glynn completed an MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She completed her PhD in infectious diseases in 1993.

#7716

Brian Bates

#18899

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Brian Bates is former chairman of Psychology at the University of Sussex. He is currently the director of the Medical Psychology Project at the Department of Psychology at University of Sussex in England. He is a visiting professor at the University of Brighton. He is known as the author of books on the shamanic wisdom of Anglo-Saxon England, and for his related course on "Shamanic Consciousness". He has also taught and directed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

#7717

Tricia Carmichael

#33620

Overall Influence

Tricia L. Carmichael is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor. She develops new materials for stretchable electronics with a current focus on wearable electronic devices.

#7718

John of London

#67197

Overall Influence

John of London , mathematician, was described by Roger Bacon as one of two "perfect" mathematicians, together with Pierre de Maricourt. Bacon probably knew John in Paris in the 1260s. No works are certainly attributed to him, but he may be the author of an influential table of stellar co-ordinates. He may also be the "Master John of London" who designed a form of astrolabe and was described by Roger of Lincoln as "astronomus famosus" .

#7719

Azat Miftakhov

#132402

Overall Influence

1993 - Present (32 years)

Azat Fanisovich Miftakhov is a Tatar-Russian mathematician, convicted for acts of hooliganism against the United Russia ruling party. Early life and education Miftakhov was born on 22 March 1993 in Nizhnekamsk, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. He showed an interest in Mathematics from an early age, while still in primary school. In 2010, he participated in the All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad for school children.

#7720

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

#95453

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. She is a professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University .

#7721

Carol Joyce Blumberg

#92745

Overall Influence

Carol Joyce Blumberg is an American statistician whose professional interests include survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education. Education and career Blumberg earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1972 and 1974 respectively. She earned a second master's degree at Michigan State University in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1982.

#7722

M. J. Bayarri

#151555

Overall Influence

1956 - 2014 (58 years)

María Jesús Bayarri García was a Spanish Bayesian statistician who served as president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and of the Sociedad Española de Biometría . Education and career After earning a bachelor's degree in 1976, a master's degree in 1979, and a doctorate in 1984 from the University of Valencia, Bayarri remained at the university as a faculty member for the rest of her career. After the death of her husband in 1984, she became a Fulbright scholar, and frequently visited the US, becoming an adjunct professor at Duke University.

#7723

Nikolai Ivanov

#171595

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Nikolai V. Ivanov is a Russian mathematician who works on topology, geometry and group theory . He is a professor at Michigan State University. He obtained his Ph.D. under the guidance of Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin in 1980 at the Steklov Mathematical Institute.

#7724

Abul Hasan Siddiqi

Abul Hasan Siddiqi

#143326

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Abul Hasan Siddiqi was an Indian mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics. Siddiqi was the President of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics . He was Editor-in-Chief of a series of Industrial and Applied Mathematics of Springer Nature.

#7725

Philipp Habegger

#169169

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Philipp Habegger is a Swiss mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel who works in Diophantine geometry. Early life and education Habegger was born on 23 July 1978. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of David Masser at the University of Basel in 2007.

#7726

Oleg Nagornov

#111770

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Oleg Viktorovich Nagornov is a Russian physicist and mathematician. Since 2010 he has been the first Vice-rector of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI . Early life and career Oleg Nagornov was born on August 15, 1956, in Moscow, Russia. In 1979 he graduated from MEPhI, where he studied theoretical nuclear physics. In 1979–1982 he was a post-graduate student in MEPhI. In 1983 Oleg Nagornov started his career in MEPhI as a junior research fellow, became research assistant in 1985.

#7727

Terence P. Speed

#171645

Overall Influence

#7728

Rajesh Kasturirangan

#94490

Overall Influence

Rajesh Kasturirangan is a mathematician and a cognitive scientist from India whose research is on how language and concepts are grounded in the world. He completed his M.Sc in 1993 at IIT Kanpur, and Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1998. He then did another PhD in Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004 under the supervision of Whitman Richards. His dissertation was "Mapping Spatial Relations".

#7729

Naisyin Wang

#146530

Overall Influence

Naisyin Wang is a Taiwanese statistician who works as a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan. She was president of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010. Education and career Wang did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University, graduating in 1986. After earning a master's degree in statistics from Ohio State University in 1987, she completed her doctorate from Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of David Ruppert. She worked as a faculty member at Texas A&M University from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to Michig...

#7730

S. Lynne Stokes

#143500

Overall Influence

Sara Lynne Stokes is an American statistician at Southern Methodist University where she is a professor and chair of the Department of Statistical Science. Her research interests include the modeling of non-sampling errors, and mark and recapture methods; she is also an expert on opinion polls.

#7731

Fabrizia Mealli

#150425

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Fabrizia Mealli is an Italian statistician at the University of Florence, known for her research on causal inference, missing data, and the statistics of employment. In 2013 she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#7732

Alexander Furman

#155858

Overall Influence

Alexander Furman is a mathematician at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Furman received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1983 to 1986, where he later earned his master's and PhD in mathematics.

#7733

Edward Fraenkel

Edward Fraenkel

#130100

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Ludwig Edward Fraenkel FRS was a German-born British mathematician, and professor at the University of Bath. He was the son of classicist Eduard Fraenkel. Education Fraenkel earned an undergraduate degree and a Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto in the area of Aeronautical Engineering. His thesis was on the design of nozzles for supersonic wind tunnels.

#7734

Sherry Towers

#57665

Overall Influence

Sherry Towers is an American and Canadian statistician and data scientist working as an independent consultant and an affiliate scholar with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany following a seven year position as a faculty research associate at Arizona State University. Towers is perhaps best known for her study of the contagion effect of mass shootings. She is also the founder and owner of Towers Consulting LLC, a consulting company that provides visual analytics, data mining, applied statistics, and computational modeling services to industry, academia, and t...

#7735

Dimitri Leemans

#171847

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Dimitri Leemans is a Belgian mathematician born in Uccle in 1972. Biography Leemans obtained his Licence en Sciences Mathématiques at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1994 and his doctorate degree, under the supervision of Francis Buekenhout and Michel Dehon in 1998.

#7736

Sergei Petrovskii

#142844

Overall Influence

Sergei Petrovskii is a Russian-born British mathematician who researches the modeling of natural phenomena. He is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester. In 2015, he led a study that found that if the ocean temperature were to increase by about six degrees Celsius due to global warming, phytoplankton might stop producing oxygen. This would lead to shortages of oxygen in the atmosphere, which could be very harmful to humans. Petrovskii said, "About two thirds of the planet's total atmospheric oxygen is produced by ocean phytoplankton - and therefore cessation would result in the depletion of atmospheric oxygen on a global scale.

#7737

Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen

#108188

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen, born 1942, professor at Uppsala University, Department of Mathematics, is a Swedish mathematician/logician and expert on domain theory and recursion theory . Viggo received his PhD in Mathematics from University of Toronto in 1973.

#7738

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado

#126741

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is currently working at , Germany. Tolosana-Delgado received the Felix Chayes Prize in 2013, and the Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award in 2007, from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He is an elected Executive Vice President of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences

#7739

Amanda L. Golbeck

#122196

Overall Influence

Amanda L. Golbeck is a statistician, social scientist, and academic leader. She is known for her book, Leadership and Women in Statistics, and her book on Elizabeth L. Scott, Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley. She is known for her pioneering definition of health numeracy.

#7740

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

#112553

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#7741

Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter

#73814

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter is a computer scientist in Brazil. Biography Szwarcfiter graduated in 1967 in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro . He received his MA in 1971 from COPPE. In 1975 he obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, under supervision of Leslie Blackett Wilson. He is currently a professor emeritus at UFRJ. The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society dedicated a special edition in 2001 to Szwarcfiter's major publications. Among others, he has written joint articles with Donald E. Knuth and Christos...

#7742

Michael Tordoff

#145386

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Dr. Michael G. Tordoff is a psychobiologist working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. His research deals with the genetics and physiology of taste and nutrition. His early work addressed how and what animals learn about the value of their food, how artificial sweeteners influence appetite and body weight, how salt intake is regulated, and how dietary calcium influences salt intake. Recently, he has been investigating calcium taste and appetite. He is the primary proponent of the notion that calcium is a basic taste, equivalent to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

#7743

Eizens Leimanis

#154964

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Eižens Leimanis was a Latvian mathematician who worked on the three-body problem. He taught for many years at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Personal information Leimanis was born in Koceni parish, Valmiera county, Vidzeme province, Russian empire now Kocēni Parish in Latvia. Leimanis and his family went to exile in Germany at the end World War II. For more than half a century he lived in Germany and Canada, and as a professor of mathematics he also worked at the British Columbia University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He lived until the age of 87 and was survived by...

#7744

Brian Marcus

#152434

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Brian Marcus is an American-born mathematician who works in Canada. He is a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of British Columbia , where he is the site director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences , a fellow of the AMS and the IEEE. He was the department head of mathematics at UBC from 2002 to 2007 and the deputy director of PIMS from 2016 to 2018.

#7745

Walter Lewis Baily Jr.

Walter Lewis Baily Jr.

#113664

Overall Influence

1930 - 2013 (83 years)

Walter Lewis Baily Jr. was an American mathematician. Baily's research focused on areas of algebraic groups, modular forms and number-theoretical applications of automorphic forms. One of his significant works was with Armand Borel, now known as the Baily–Borel compactification, which is a compactification of a quotient of a Hermitian symmetric space by an arithmetic group . Baily and Borel built on the work of Ichirō Satake and others.

#7746

Yayuan Liu

#127833

Overall Influence

1992 - Present (33 years)

Yayuan Liu is a Chinese-American materials scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research considers electrochemistry, nanomaterials and materials characterisation for the development of next-generation batteries. She was selected as one of the 2019 American Chemical Society Young Investigators and included in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list of top scientists.

#7747

Kenneth Walters

#108397

Overall Influence

Kenneth Walters was a British mathematician and rheologist. He was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute Of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Aberystwyth University. Education Walters earned his PhD from the University of Swansea in 1959 under the supervision of James G. Oldroyd. His thesis was entitled Some Elastico-Viscous Liquids with Continuous and Discrete Relaxation Spectra.

#7748

Jiayang Sun

#121652

Overall Influence

Jiayang Sun is an American statistician whose research has included work on simultaneous confidence bands for multiple comparisons, selection bias, mixture models, Gaussian random fields, machine learning, big data, statistical computing, graphics, and applications in biostatistics, biomedical research, software bug tracking, astronomy, and intellectual property law. She is a statistics professor, Bernard J. Dunn Eminent Scholar, and chair of the statistics department at George Mason University, and a former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#7749

Alan Parsons

#16165

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Alan Parsons is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be , Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon , and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, the Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for Eye in the Sky .

#7750

Jennifer D. Parker

#130685

Overall Influence

Jennifer D. Parker is an American statistician who works as the Director of the Division of Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics. Her publications include highly-cited works relating socioeconomic status, air pollution, and birth weight of infants.

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