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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#7801

William Raoul Reagle Transue

#173549

Overall Influence

1937 - 2008 (71 years)

William Raoul Reagle Transue was an American mathematician and topologist. He is the son of mathematician William Reagle Transue and Monique Serpette who moved from her native France to the US in 1936. Bill, as he was known, earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from The University of Georgia in 1967 under Billy Joe Ball. He was a professor of mathematics at Auburn University from 1967 until his retirement over 30 years later.

#7802

Nicholas Mills

#131625

Overall Influence

Nicholas J. Mills is a Professor of Insect Population Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at the University of East Anglia where he received a BSc in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Population Ecology. He then undertook postdoctoral research at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was awarded a DANR Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Faculty, in 1997, and a CNR Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He is also a Curator at the Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley.

#7803

D. M. G. Wishart

#143994

Overall Influence

1928 - 2003 (75 years)

David Matthew G. Wishart was a British statistician. Wishart was born in Stockton-on-Tees to parents William and Nelly in 1928. His father, an engineer, worked for Imperial Chemical Industries and was later a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Birmingham. His mother was one of the first women to have earned a doctorate in Scotland, completing her graduate studies in physical chemistry. Wishart was educated at Oundle School, and enrolled at the University of St Andrews, originally to study chemistry, before changing his focus to mathematics. Wishart was later awarded a scholarship by the English-Speaking Union.

#7804

Luis von Ahn

#108623

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

#7805

Peabo Bryson

#34941

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads including the hit singles "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Roberta Flack, "A Whole New World with Regina BelleBeauty and the Beast with Celine Dion. Bryson has contributed to two Disney animated feature soundtracks. Bryson is a winner of two Grammy Awards.

#7806

Carole Hodgson

#35052

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Carole Hodgson is an English sculptor. Biography Hodgson studied at the Wimbledon School of Art from 1957 to 1962 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1962 to 1964. She is an Emeritus Professor of Fine Art and Sculpture Kingston University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

#7807

Rebecca Hubbard

#131850

Overall Influence

Rebecca Allana Hubbard is an American biostatistician whose research interests include observational studies and the use of electronic health record data in public health analysis and decision-making, accounting for the errors in this type of data. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

#7808

Nicolas Courtois

#52460

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Nicolas Tadeusz Courtois is a cryptographer and senior lecturer in computer science at University College London. Courtois was one of the co-authors of both the XSL attack against block ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, and the XL system for solving systems of algebraic equations used in the attack. Other cryptographic results of Courtois include algebraic attacks on stream ciphers, attacks on the KeeLoq and Hitag 2 systems used for remote keyless automobile entry systems, and an analysis of cryptographic weaknesses in public transit smart cards including the London Underground Oyster card and the Dutch OV-chipkaart.

#7809

Derek Lawden

#173693

Overall Influence

1919 - 2008 (89 years)

Derek Frank Lawden was a British-New Zealand mathematician. Academic career After reading mathematics at Cambridge University he served in the Royal Artillery and then lectured at the Royal Military College of Science and the College of Advanced Technology Birmingham, where he worked on rocket trajectories and space flight. In 1956 he moved to University of Canterbury as professor. In the 1960s he received a DSc from Cambridge, was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and won the Hector Medal. He return to the UK to University of Aston in 1967.

#7810

Frederic Wan

#88219

Overall Influence

Frederic Yui-Ming Wan is a Chinese-American applied mathematician, academic, author and consultant. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine , and an Affiliate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington .

#7811

Marcia Ciol

#52560

Overall Influence

Márcia Aparecida Ciol is a Brazilian-American medical statistician and biostatistician known for her research on comorbidity. She works as a research associate professor in the University of Washington's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, maintains an affiliation with the Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma, and is a past president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#7812

John J. Tyson

#32622

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

John J. Tyson is an American systems biologist and mathematical biologist who serves as University Distinguished Professor of Biology at Virginia Tech, and is the former president of the Society for Mathematical Biology. He is known for his research on biochemical switches in the cell cycle, dynamics of biological networks and on excitable media.

#7813

Overtoun Jenda

#161701

Overall Influence

Overtoun Jenda, born in an urban area of the northern part of Malawi, is an American mathematician and recipient of a 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. He is a Professor of Mathematics and Assistant Provost for Special Projects and Initiatives at Auburn University. In 2011, Jenda founded the Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association Masamu project for research collaboration.

#7814

Albert Baernstein II

#102211

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Albert Baernstein II was an American mathematician. Education and career Baernstein matriculated at the University of Alabama, but after a year there he transferred to Cornell University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1962. After working for a year for an insurance company, he became a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his master's degree in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1968.

#7815

Wan Zhexian

#153586

Overall Influence

1927 - 2023 (96 years)

Wan Zhexian was a Chinese mathematician, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Wan was born in Zichuan , Shandong, on 7 November 1927, while his ancestral home is in Xiantao, Hubei. He attended Zhangdian Primary School .

#7816

Celia Greenwood

#131889

Overall Influence

Celia Margaret Theodora Greenwood is a Canadian biostatistician specializing in statistical genetics. She is a James McGill Professor of Oncology at McGill University. Greenwood was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended universities in Ontario and Quebec. Greenwood earned a doctorate in biostatistics from the University of Toronto in 1998. She was affiliated with The Hospital for Sick Children and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health before joining the McGill University faculty and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in 2010.

#7817

Tsachik Gelander

#173714

Overall Influence

Tsachik Gelander is an Israeli mathematician working in the fields of Lie groups, topological groups, symmetric spaces, lattices and discrete subgroups . He is a professor in Northwestern University.

#7818

Raphaël Krikorian

#171661

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Raphaël Krikorian is a French mathematician, currently a professor at the CY Cergy Paris University. He is known for his contributions to dynamical systems. After studying at the École polytechnique, Krikorian earned his PhD under supervision of Michael Herman in 1996.

#7819

Ladislav Skula

#72294

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Ladislav "Ladja" Skula is a Czech mathematician. His work spans across topology, algebraic number theory, and the theory of ordered sets. He has published over 80 papers and notable results on the Fermat quotient.

#7820

Charles Angas Hurst

#108146

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Charles Angas Hurst AM DSc FAA was an Australian mathematical physicist noted for his work in lattice models, quantum field theory, asymptotic expansions and Lie groups. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003, elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1972, and awarded the Centenary Medal and an Hon DSc . His PhD was a seminal work on quantum field theory, developing asymptotic expansions for perturbation expansions. In 1952 Hurst represented Australia in the inaugural International Mathematical Union.

#7821

Joan Bailey-Wilson

Joan Bailey-Wilson

#166299

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Joan Ellen Bailey-Wilson is an American statistical geneticist. She is a senior investigator and co-chief of the Computational and Statistical Genomic Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

#7822

Ulrich Stuhler

#168681

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Ulrich Stuhler is a German mathematician. He currently is a professor at the University of Göttingen. He is known for his contributions to the Langlands program. In 1993, he—along with Gérard Laumon and Michael Rapoport—proved the local Langlands conjectures for the general linear group GLn for positive characteristic local fields K.

#7823

Jan Trlifaj

#172538

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Jan Trlifaj is a Professor of Mathematics at Charles University whose research interests include Commutative algebra, Homological algebra and Representation theory. Career and research Jan Trlifaj studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, from which he received MSc. in 1979, Ph.D. in 1989 under Ladislav Bican. and Prof. of Mathematics in the field Algebra and number theory in 2009.

#7824

Wendy Lou

#84615

Overall Influence

Wen-Yi Wendy Lou is a biostatistician who works as a professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the theory of runs and patterns in sequence data and applications of statistics to health care.

#7825

Thomas Jones Enright

Thomas Jones Enright

#132101

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Thomas Jones Enright was an American mathematician known for his work in the algebraic theory of representations of real reductive Lie groups. Biography Enright received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Washington under the direction of Ramesh A. Gangolli. From 1973 to 1975 he was the Hedrick Assistant Professor in UCLA working with Veeravalli S. Varadarajan, and spent the 1976-1977 year after in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J. before starting at University of California at San Diego in 1977. He was chair of the mathematics department of UCSD from 1986 to 1990.

#7826

Nancy Temkin

#98650

Overall Influence

Nancy R. Temkin is an American statistician who works on the biostatistics of traumatic brain injury. She is a professor of neurological surgery and biostatistics at the University of Washington, and serves on the National Research Council Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth.

#7827

Frederick Bagemihl

#172851

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Frederick Bagemihl was an American mathematician at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1953 to 1955. Bibliography Meromorphic functions with a single principal cluster set, Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1974, Sequential and continuous limits of meromorphic functions, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1960, OCLC 247617805

#7828

Kim Yong-un

#122061

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

Kim Yong-un was a South Korean mathematician, philosopher, and critic of civilisations. He was active in various fields of mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics, and is considered to have established the history of mathematics in Korea. He was a professor of mathematics at Hanyang University.

#7829

Sharon R. Browning

#158720

Overall Influence

Sharon Ruth Browning is a statistical geneticist at the University of Washington, and a research professor with its Department of Biostatistics. Her research has various implications for the field of biogenetics.

#7830

Witold Roter

#169229

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Witold Kazimierz Roter was a mathematician, of the Polish School of Mathematics, expert in differential geometry. Early life and education Witold Kazimierz Roter was born on September 20, 1932, in Zabrze-Pawłów. He attended primary and then secondary school in Zabrze, and next, he studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław – 1st degree studies in 1950–1953 and 2nd degree studies in 1955–1958. In 1958 he obtained a master's degree in mathematics. In 1953, after completing the first cycle of studies, he was ordered to work as a teacher at the Nowa Ruda Primary School No. 1 and in the Secondary School.

#7831

Go Nagai

#29836

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Kiyoshi Nagai, better known by the pen name Go Nagai, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey, Devilman and Mazinger Z. He is credited with creating the super robot genre and for designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z, and for pioneering the magical girl genre with Cutie Honey, the post-apocalyptic manga/anime genre with Violence Jack, and the ecchi genre with Harenchi Gakuen.

#7832

Barbara Tilley

#97235

Overall Influence

Barbara C. Tilley is an American biostatistician. Early life Tilley was born in San Rafael, California. Education Tilley graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1972. She earned a master's degree in biomathematics at the University of Washington in 1975, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Texas School of Public Health in 1981.

#7833

Clifford John Earle Jr.

#136949

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Clifford John Earle, Jr. was an American mathematician who specialized in complex variables and Teichmüller spaces. Biography Earle was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1935. He received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1957, his master's degree from Harvard University in 1958, and his Ph.D. in 1962 under Lars Ahlfors with thesis Teichmüller Spaces of Groups of the Second Kind. From 1963 to 1965 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1965 he became an assistant professor and in 1969 a full professor at Cornell University. From 1976 to 1979 he was the chair of the mathemati...

#7834

Bertil Matérn

#174324

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Bertil Matérn was a Swedish statistician. The Matérn covariance function is named after him. Life and work Bertil Matérn was born on 18 May 1917 in Gothenburg, Sweden, to Ernst Matérn, a pharmacist, and Hedvig Rhedin. He studied at Stockholm University, under the supervision of Harald Cramér. He was employed at the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, where he worked on forestry statistics.

#7835

Tarmo Soomere

#142059

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Tarmo Soomere is an Estonian marine scientist and mathematician. Since 2014, he is the president of Estonian Academy of Sciences. In March 2021 Soomere announced his candidacy for the 2021 Estonian presidential election.

#7836

J. Michael T. Thompson

#106920

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

John Michael Tutill Thompson , born on 7 June 1937 in Cottingham, England, is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is married with two children.

#7837

Karen Bandeen-Roche

#93988

Overall Influence

Karen Jean Bandeen-Roche is an American biostatistician known for her research on aging and aging-related frailty. She is Hurley Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#7838

Alexander Murray Macbeath

#163408

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Alexander Murray Macbeath was a mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces. Macbeath surfaces and Macbeath regions are named after him. Early life and education Macbeath was the son of Alexander Macbeath, a philosopher and logician who took a position at Queen's University Belfast in 1925, soon after Murray was born. Murray also studied at Queen's University, where he earned a B.A. with honours.

#7839

Detlef P. van Vuuren

#174471

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

#7840

David Feldman

#64557

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

David Feldman MA. BBS, RDP.FRPSL is a professional philatelist, auctioneer, art specialist and author. He held his first stamp auction in 1967. Feldman is Honorary Chairman of David Feldman SA, a Geneva-based auction company, through which he attained record prices for some of the world's most famous postage stamps. In 1993, Feldman auctioned the "Bordeaux Cover", which comprised the 1847 1d Orange-red and the 2d Deep Blue Mauritius "Post Office" stamps, which brought 6,175,000 Swiss francs including all commissions, at that time the highest price ever paid for any philatelic item. He also so...

#7841

Jim Simons

#162578

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

James Harris Simons is an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using mathematical models and algorithms to make investment gains from market inefficiencies. Due to the long-term aggregate investment returns of Renaissance and its Medallion Fund, Simons is described as the "greatest investor on Wall Street", and more specifically "the most successful hedge fund manager of all time".

#7842

Alexandra M. Schmidt

#141762

Overall Influence

Alexandra M. Schmidt is a Brazilian biostatistician and epidemiologist who works as an associate professor of biostatistics at McGill University in Canada. She is known for her research on spatiotemporal and multivariate statistics and their applications in environmental statistics.

#7843

Leopoldo Penna Franca

#116625

Overall Influence

1959 - 2012 (53 years)

Leopoldo Penna Franca was a Brazilian-American mathematician. He received his PhD in 1987 from Stanford University in engineering under Thomas J. R. Hughes. After graduation, he worked at the :pt:Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC in Brazil. From 1993 to 2011, he was a full professor and researcher of mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver. From 2008 to 2010 he was a visiting professor and researcher of mathematics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ / Coppe at the Civil Engineering Department in collaboration to Alvaro Coutinho. From 2011 until 2012, he worked for IBM Research Brazil.

#7844

Georgy Egorychev

#152638

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Georgy Petrovich Egorychev is a Russian mathematician, known for the Egorychev method. Biography He graduated in mathematics from Ural State University and in 1960 became a teacher of mathematics in secondary school.

#7845

Roger Temam

#174573

Overall Influence

#7846

Fabrizio Ruggeri

#156183

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Fabrizio Ruggeri is an Italian statistician. He is Research Director at the National Research Council Istituto di matematica applicata e tecnologie informatiche in Milan, Italy. His work focusses on Bayesian methods, specifically robustness and stochastic process inference. He has done innovative work on sensitivity of Bayesian methods and incompletely specified priors. He has worked on Bayesian wavelet methods, and on a vast variety of applications to industrial problems. His publications include well over 150 refereed papers and book chapters, as well as five books.

#7847

Robert Whyte

#42706

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Robert Whyte is an Australian writer. He was a founding co-owner and director of the Brisbane-based multimedia firm ToadShow. After 2012 he participated in the Australian Government's new species exploration program Bush Blitz. His works include The Creek in Our Back Yard: a practical guide to creek restoration and A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia for CSIRO Publishing 2017.

#7848

J. Arthur Seebach Jr.

J. Arthur Seebach Jr.

#173267

Overall Influence

1938 - 1996 (58 years)

J. Arthur Seebach Jr was an American mathematician. Seebach studied Greek language as an undergraduate, making it a second major with mathematics. Seebach studied with A. I. Weinzweig at Northwestern University. He earned a Ph.D. with the thesis Cones and Homotopy in Categories. Seebach began to teach at Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1965. He, his wife Linda A. Seebach, and Lynn A. Steen wrote an expository article "What is a Sheaf". The paper showed that a sheaf is useful in analysis, algebra, and geometry when considering germss of holomorphic functions, local rings, and differential forms.

#7849

Calvin Zippin

#157100

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

Calvin Zippin is a cancer epidemiologist and biostatistician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco . He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American College of Epidemiology and the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain. His doctoral thesis was the basis for the Zippin Estimator, a procedure for estimating wildlife populations using data from trapping experiments. He was a principal investigator in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the Na...

#7850

Wilf Malcolm

#141131

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Wilfred Gordon Malcolm was a New Zealand mathematician and university administrator. He was professor of pure mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington from the mid 1970s, until serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato between 1985 and 1994.

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