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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#7751

Stafford Tavares

#66394

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Stafford Emanuel Tavares is a Canadian cryptographer, professor emeritus at Queen's University. His notable work includes the design of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography workshop in 1994. Since 2003, SAC has included an invited lecture in his honor, the Stafford Tavares Lecture.

#7752

Nikolai Durov

#138066

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Russian-born Kittitian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram Messenger.

#7753

Igor Simonenko

#142481

Overall Influence

1935 - 2008 (73 years)

Igor Borisovich Simonenko was a Russian mathematician. Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation. Biography Igor Borisovich Simonenko was born on 16 August 1935 in Kiev. In 1947 he entered Luhansk Machine-Building Technical School and later worked at factory. Since 1953 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanics of Rostov State University and in 1959 graduated it with honours. The results of his diploma work were published in the reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

#7754

Andrew Prentice

#31855

Overall Influence

Andrew Prentice is an Australian mathematician. He is known for developing an alternative model of planetary formation. In contrast to the conventional model where planetary accretion occurs within a continuous disk, according to Prentice's "Modern Laplacian Theory" each planet accretes within a discrete circumsolar gas ring. Prentice's nested gas rings arise due to the effect of 'supersonic turbulent convection' in slowing the infall of interstellar dust and gas. Instead of collapsing directly to form a flat continuous disk, due to 'turbulent stress' the gas temporarily remains puffed up in a vast rotating spheroidal atmosphere around the protosolar core.

#7755

Guy David

#172574

Overall Influence

#7756

Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill

#69109

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

P. G. O'Neill was a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore, Sir Peter Parker and John R. McEwan, one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in May 1942.

#7757

Kate Calder

#169736

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Catherine A. "Kate" Calder is an American statistician who works as chair of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. Calder earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University in 2003 under the joint supervision of David Higdon and Michael L. Lavine. She joined the Ohio State faculty in 2003, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.

#7758

Sylvia Esterby

#73028

Overall Influence

Sylvia Rose Esterby is a Canadian environmental statistician known for her research on water quality. She is an associate professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia , a founder of the International Environmetrics Society, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#7759

Marina Umaschi Bers

#93030

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Marina Umaschi Bers is the Augustus Long Professor of Education at Boston College. Bers holds a secondary appointment in Boston College's Department of Computer Science. Bers directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group, which she started in 2001 at Tufts University. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote children's positive development. She is known for her work in the field of early childhood computer science with projects of national and international visibility. Bers is the co-creator of the free ScratchJr programming language, us...

#7760

Telba Irony

#131688

Overall Influence

Telba Zalkind Irony is a Brazilian statistician, operations researcher, and proponent of Bayesian statistics. She works at the Food and Drug Administration, where she was formerly chief of biostatistics at the Office of Device Evaluation and is now deputy directory of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

#7761

Sergei Abramov

#101616

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Sergei Mikhailovich Abramov is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Program Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the University of Pereslavl . Specialist in the field of system programming and information technologies .

#7762

Sidney Geist

#96230

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Sidney Geist was an American artist. He was known for his sculpture and his art criticism. Biography Geist was born April 11, 1914, in Paterson, New Jersey, and graduated from Eastside High School in 1931. He attended St. Stephen's College now Bard College, and the Art Students League of New York. For a time he worked as an apprentice with the sculptor Paul Fiene. He also worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project from 1938 through 1940.

#7763

Lothar Berg

#133221

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Lothar Berg was a German mathematician and university teacher. Work and life Lothar Berg graduated from high school in Neustrelitz in 1949 and then studied mathematics and physics at the University of Rostock. In 1953, he began a two-year postgraduate course at the University of Rostock. In 1955, he received his doctorate under and . Lothar Berg then went to the Technical University of Electrical Engineering in Ilmenau as a senior assistant .

#7764

Leslie Colin Woods

#122694

Overall Influence

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

Leslie Colin Woods was a New Zealand mathematician. Early life and education Woods was born on 6 December 1922 in Reporoa, New Zealand. Woods' father was a fisherman. His surname was originally Woodhead.

#7765

Jeff Gill

#116915

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Jefferson Morris Gill is Distinguished Professor of Government, and of Mathematics & Statistics, the Director of the Center for Data Science, the Editor of Political Analysis, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University as of the Fall of 2017.

#7766

Maryse Marpsat

#134120

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Maryse Marpsat is a French sociologist and statistician whose work employs methods drawn from sociology and statistics but also mathematics. Her major sociological works concern poverty, inequality and homeless situation. She is a civil servant, administrator of the French National Institute of Statistics and a fellow of the CSU, a French research institute specializing in sociological studies in urban societies.

#7767

Elisa T. Lee

#155083

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Elisa T. Lee is a Chinese-American statistician, affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where she is Regents Professor Emeritus, George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and director of the Center for American Indian Health Research.

#7768

Eun Sug Park

#149931

Overall Influence

Eun Sug Park is an American statistician who works as a senior research scientist in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She is known for her research on the statistics of traffic safety, and on whether public transportation reduces air pollution, as well as for her book on traffic simulation.

#7769

Richard B. McHugh

#125909

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Richard Burton McHugh was an American statistician. McHugh was a professor of biometry at University of Minnesota School of Public Health for over 30 years. Early life and education McHugh was born in Villard, Minnesota and grew up in Minneapolis, MN.

#7770

Irene Hess

#133615

Overall Influence

1910 - 2009 (99 years)

Ida Irene Hess was an American statistician who was an expert on survey methodology for scientific surveys and who directed the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Life Hess was born on August 27, 1910, in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, the daughter of a Central City mining engineer. After three years of study at Evansville College, she completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Indiana University, graduating in 1931, and returned home to become a mathematics teacher at a junior high school in Central City.

#7771

Lynn Eberly

#113969

Overall Influence

Lynn Elizabeth Eberly is a professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, whose research involves longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data.

#7772

Frank Merle

#172980

Overall Influence

#7773

Hans-Wilhelm Knobloch

#172447

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Hans-Wilhelm Knobloch was a German mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems and control theory. Although the field of mathematical systems and control theory was already well-established in several other countries, Hans-Wilhelm Knobloch and Diederich Hinrichsen were the two mathematicians of most importance in establishing this field in Germany.

#7774

William J. Welch

#172997

Overall Influence

#7775

Sharon Xiangwen Xie

#141474

Overall Influence

Sharon Xiangwen Xie is a Chinese biostatistician and epidemiologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.

#7776

Richard M. Simon

#173079

Overall Influence

#7777

Joseph Kouneiher

Joseph Kouneiher

#149084

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Joseph Kouneiher is a French mathematical physicist. He is a professor of mathematical physics and engineering sciences at Nice SA University, France. He works primarily on the foundations of science, and his work in the domains of quantum field theory, quantum gravity, string theory and conformal field theory is widely cited and is well known. He holds three PHDs in mathematical physics and Epistemology and history of sciences.

#7778

Michael Jones

#46095

Overall Influence

Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Education Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.

#7779

Christina Kendziorski

#132936

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Christina Marie Kendziorski is a biostatistician whose research involves genomics, statistical genetics, and the statistical analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,

#7780

Roy Shaw

#75592

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Sir Roy Shaw was a British educationalist and public servant. Originally employed in adult education, to which he remained dedicated in later life, he was Secretary-General of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1975 to 1983.

#7781

Roxy Peck

#154249

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Roxy Lynn Peck is a statistics educator. She is a professor emeritus at California Polytechnic State University ; she was chair of statistics at Cal Poly for six years and associate dean for thirteen more.

#7782

María del Pilar Díaz

#136575

Overall Influence

María del Pilar Díaz is an Argentine statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics at the National University of Córdoba . Pilar Díaz was an instructor in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics in the School of Nutrition in the at UNC in 1983.

#7783

Kim Cobb

#53175

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Kim M. Cobb is an American climate scientist. She is Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, where she directs the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Cobb was previously a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is particularly interested in oceanography, geochemistry and paleoclimate modeling.

#7784

John C. West

#60937

Overall Influence

1922 - 2016 (94 years)

John Clifford West was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and vice-chancellor of the University of Bradford. He was a philatelist who specialised in Chile and was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2000. He was a fellow of the Institute of Paper Conservation and the Royal Philatelic Society London.

#7785

Krista Gile

#131611

Overall Influence

Krista Jennifer Gile is an American statistician known for her research on respondent-driven sampling, on exponential random graph models, and more generally on the statistical behavior of social networks. She is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#7786

Elizabeth Stasny

#145124

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ann Stasny is a professor emeritus of statistics at Ohio State University. She is an expert on survey methodology and particularly on missing data in surveys. Education Stasny earned her Ph.D. in 1983 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Estimating Gross Flows in Labor Force Participation Using Data From the Canadian Labour Force Survey, was supervised by Stephen Fienberg.

#7787

Pekka Tukia

#173210

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Pekka Pertti Tukia is a Finnish mathematician who does research on Kleinian groups and their geometric properties . Tukia received his PhD in 1972 with thesis advisor Kaarlo Virtanen in Helsinki. Tukia is a professor at the University of Helsinki.

#7788

Michael Bulmer

#123478

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Michael George Bulmer FRS is a British biostatistician. He is an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He is known for his work in quantitative genetics and on the biology of twinning, as well as for his 2003 biography of Francis Galton.

#7789

Mark Goresky

#173254

Overall Influence

#7790

Wim Turkenburg

#117274

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Wim C. Turkenburg is emeritus professor 'Science, Technology & Society' at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and owner of a consultancy on energy and environmental issues. He is member of the board of the Foundation Preparation Pallas reactor as well as member of some advisory and programming committees on issues ranging from nuclear waste management and the safety of nuclear power plants and natural gas exploitation to RD&D programming in the field of bioenergy and biomaterials. In addition he communicates regularly on energy issues in public media.

#7791

Sarah Nusser

#85789

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Sarah Margaret Nusser is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology. She is vice president for research at Iowa State University, where she is also a professor of statistics and the former director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology. As well as survey statistics, her research publications have included contributions to human nutrition and to environmental statistics.

#7792

Peter Müller

#173377

Overall Influence

#7793

John Croucher

#124174

Overall Influence

John Sydney Croucher is an Australian statistician and Professor of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics in the Macquarie Business School at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. He has written around 33 books, 120 research papers, and 500 newspaper articles.

#7794

Beth Gladen

#156967

Overall Influence

Beth Charmaine Gladen is an American biostatistician who worked at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where she did pioneering research on children’s environmental health with physician Walter J. Rogan, including influential studies on the harmful effects of polychlorinated biphenyl as transmitted to children in utero and through breast milk, and on correlations between breastfeeding and infant mental development. The Rogan–Gladen estimator, a frequentist correction to observed prevalence rates to account for misclassifications based on sensitivity and specificity is name...

#7795

Keith DeCandido

Keith DeCandido

#17864

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Andromeda, Farscape, Leverage, Spider-Man, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, and Stargate SG-1.

#7796

Dmitry Chelkak

#173446

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Dmitry Sergeevich Chelkak is a Russian mathematician. Chelkak graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1995 with a diploma in 2000 and received his doctorate in 2003 from the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg. In 2000 he was with an Euler scholarship in Heidelberg and later in Potsdam. He is a senior researcher at the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg and was also a lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University from 2004 to 2010 and at the Chebyshev Laboratory from 2010 to 2014. He was from 2014 to 2015 at ETH Zurich and from 2015 to 2016 a visiting professor in Geneva.

#7797

Shobhakar Dhakal

#121958

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Shobhakar Dhakal is the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand since April 2021. In the past he was Dean of School of Environment, Resources and Development, and Head of Department of Energy Environment and Climate Change of Asian Institute of Technology. His main areas of expertise are in energy policy, climate change mitigation and policies, policy modelling and analysis, and cities and climate change. Dhakal actively contributes to international and scientific arena.

#7798

Garth Paltridge

#52200

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Garth William Paltridge is a retired Australian atmospheric physicist. He is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and emeritus professor and honorary research fellow at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies , University of Tasmania.

#7799

Ruth Mickey

#133088

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Ruth Mary Mickey is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference, and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources. She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.

#7800

Ronny Hadani

#121931

Overall Influence

Ronny Hadani is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in representation theory and harmonic analysis, with applications to signal processing. He is known for developing Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space modulating techniques, a method used for making wireless 5G communications faster, that is also being considered for use in 6G technology. The technology is being used by several wireless 5G related companies and Cohere Technologies, a company he has co-founded.

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