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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#7951

Varro Eugene Tyler

#44512

Overall Influence

1926 - 2001 (75 years)

Varro Eugene Tyler , of Auburn, Nebraska, was an American professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist who specialized in the study of forged postage stamps and the forgers who created them. Academic career Tyler graduated in pharmacy from the University of Nebraska in 1949, attended Yale University as an Eli Lilly Research Fellow and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut in 1951 and 1953.

#7952

Mary Mulry

#155002

Overall Influence

Mary Helen Mulry is an American demographic statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau and has published scholarly works about census accuracy. Education and career Mulry majored in mathematics at Texas Christian University, graduating in 1972 as the university's top mathematics student. She went to Indiana University Bloomington for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1975, a second master's degree in statistics in 1977, and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1978. Her dissertation, -Extension Properties, concerned equivariant topology and was su...

#7953

James Cogdell

#175651

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

James Wesley Cogdell is an American mathematician. Education and career He graduated from Yale University in 1977 with a bachelor's degree and in 1981 with a Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation Arithmetic Quotients of the Complex 2-Ball and Modular Forms of Nebentypus was supervised by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. Cogdell was a postdoc at the University of Maryland and the University of California, Los Angeles. He was from 1982 to 1988 an assistant professor at Rutgers University. At Oklahoma State University he was from 1987 to 1988 assistant professor, from 1988 to 1994 an associate professor, and from 1994 to 2004 a full professor .

#7954

Melville Arnott

#62795

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

Sir William Melville Arnott was a Scottish academic. Born in Edinburgh, the son of a Scottish minister, Rev Henry Arnott, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was awarded his MD on renal hypertension in 1937.

#7955

Jean Céa

#102059

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Jean Céa is a French mathematician. Born from Spanish immigrants in Algeria , he studied at the Ecole normale d'instituteurs d'Oran and the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1964 with his dissertation Approximation variationnelle des problèmes aux limites. In his thesis he proved the Céa's lemma, an important result related to error estimation in the Finite Element Method.

#7956

Karel Janeček

#161568

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Karel Janeček is a Czech mathematician, entrepreneur, anti-corruption campaigner, creator of the D21 – Janeček method voting system and the online game Prezident 21. Early life and education Janeček was born in Plzeň. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague in the field of probability and mathematical statistics. He is an MBA in finance graduate of Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, US, and a PhD graduate in the field of mathematical finance of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.

#7957

Allison Milner

#128665

Overall Influence

1983 - 2019 (36 years)

Allison Joy Milner was a social epidemiologist specializing in workplace mental health. Milner was Deputy Head of the Disability and Health Unit at the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. She earned a doctor of philosophy from the Griffith University's Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention in Brisbane and a masters of epidemiology from the University of Melbourne.

#7958

James Crowley

#176950

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

James M. Crowley is an American mathematician currently at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and an Elected Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross, Crowley graduated in 1972 with an M.S. from Virginia Tech. From 1972 to 1977 he was a mathematician working for the U. S. Air Force Foreign Technology Division. From 1977 to 1986 he was an associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. At Brown University he studied from 1978 to 1981, graduating in 1982 with doct...

#7959

Denis Miéville

#101409

Overall Influence

1946 - 2018 (72 years)

Denis Miéville was a Swiss expert on the logic of Stanislaw Lesniewski and natural logic. Biography Denis Miéville was raised in the towns of Colombier and Essert-Pittet . After studying mathematics and logic at the University of Neuchâtel and Bowling Green University , Denis Miéville developed an interest in the development and formalization of natural logic that led him to study both the theory of collective classes and the foundations of maximal predicates in propositional logic. These interests were integrated in the doctoral thesis that he defended in 1984 at the University of Neuchâtel, supervised by the eminent logician Jean-Blaise Grize.

#7960

Tomasz Hueckel

#173282

Overall Influence

Tomasz Hueckel is an American scientist and engineer, born and educated in Poland. He is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is also a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal. Tomasz Hueckel is the son of Stanisław Hückel, a professor of maritime, harbor and foundation engineering at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. Hueckel is active in the field of multi-physics geomechanics, with applications to underground energy, resource and environmental geomechanics.

#7961

Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

#177007

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Nezameddin Mahdavi-Amiri is an Iranian mathematician and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology. He is known for his works on Computational Optimization, Scientific Computing, Matrix Computations, Mathematical Software and Fuzzy Optimization.

#7962

Vidyadhar P. Godambe

#168002

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Vidyadhar Prabhakar Godambe was an Indian statistician. He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Godambe was known for formulating and developing a theory of estimating equations.

#7963

Kimiko O. Bowman

#145811

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Kimiko Osada Bowman was a Japanese-American statistician known for her work on approximating the probability distribution of maximum likelihood estimators and for her advocacy for people with disabilities.

#7964

Yuguo Chen

#171420

Overall Influence

Yuguo Chen is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work mainly focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and network analysis. He received a B.S. in mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 2001 under the supervision of Tze Leung Lai and Jun S. Liu. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University from 2001 to 2005.

#7965

Aleksandra Slavković

#137331

Overall Influence

Aleksandra B. Slavković is an American statistician, a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University, and Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State. She also chairs the Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality in Statistics of the American Statistical Association. Her research interests include statistical disclosure control, algebraic statistics, and the applications of statistics in the social sciences.

#7966

Aleksei Filippov

#177127

Overall Influence

1923 - 2006 (83 years)

Aleksei Fedorovich Filippov was a Russian mathematician who worked on differential equations, differential inclusions, diffraction theory and numerical methods. Born in Moscow in 1923, Filippov served in the Red Army during the Second World War, then attended Moscow State University . After graduating in 1950, he remained to work at the school. He got his Ph.D. under the supervision of I. G. Petrovsky, and became a professor in 1978. He taught until his death in 2006.

#7967

Rajeshwari Sundaram

#161160

Overall Influence

Rajeshwari Sundaram is an Indian biostatistician specializing in survival analysis and reproductive health who works in the National Institutes of Health as a senior investigator in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Topics in her research have included the effects of obesity on fertility, infant and early childhood screen time, and the long-term persistence of postpartum depression.

#7968

Shonda Kuiper

#172756

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Shonda Roelfs Kuiper is a professor of statistics and statistics educator at Grinnell College and a former statistician for Hallmark Cards. She chairs the Joint Committee on Statistics Education of the American Statistical Association and Mathematical Association of America, and is the author of a statistics textbook with J. Sklar, Practicing Statistics: Guided Investigations for the Second Course .

#7969

Awele Maduemezia

#131640

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Awele Augustine Maduemezia was a Nigerian professor of Physics, mathematician, researcher and educator. He was former Vice Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University. He also served as president of the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics.

#7970

Shih-Jen Hwang

#173473

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Shih-Jen Hwang is a Taiwanese-American biostatistician and epidemiologist. She is a staff scientist in the Laboratory for Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genomics at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She is an investigator on the Framingham Heart Study.

#7971

Linards Reiziņš

#173143

Overall Influence

1924 - 1991 (67 years)

Linards Reiziņš was a Latvian mathematician who specialized in the field of differential equations and the conditions under which two systems of differential equations are topologically equivalent.

#7972

Rostam K. Saeed

#168468

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Rostam Karim Saeed is a Kurdish mathematician and professor from Iraq. He is known for finding methods to solve a system of volterra integral equations. Biography Rostam Karim Saeed Ismail was born in July 1964, in a small village outside of Erbil, Iraq. He studied secondary school and high school in the city of Erbil. His fellow students recall him showing extraordinary abilities in both mathematics and chemistry. Rostam was awarded graduated in 1982 at Azady Secondary School. Rostam went to the College of Science at the Salahaddin University-Erbil in Erbil, Iraq.

#7973

Peter J. Davies

#177248

Overall Influence

#7974

Betty Flehinger

#160908

Overall Influence

Betty Jeanne Flehinger-Schultz was a biostatistician known for her research on clinical decision support systems and cancer screening. She worked for many years for IBM Research. Education and career Betty Jeanne Isaacs is a 1941 graduate of Barnard College, where she was founder and president of the college's physics club. She earned a master's degree in physics from Cornell University in 1942 with a thesis titled A Revision of the Isotopic Mass Scale. As Betty Flehinger, she completed a Ph.D. in 1961 from Columbia University. Her dissertation, A General Model for the Reliability Analysis of...

#7975

Thomas J. Osler

#103246

Overall Influence

1940 - 2023 (83 years)

Thomas Joseph Osler was an American mathematician, national champion distance runner, and author. Early life and education Born in 1940 in Camden, New Jersey, Osler was a graduate of Camden High School in 1957 and then studied physics at Drexel University, graduating in 1962. He completed his PhD at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, in 1970. His dissertation, Leibniz Rule, the Chain Rule, and Taylor's Theorem for Fractional Derivatives, was supervised by Samuel Karp.

#7976

Maria Pia Fanti

#116348

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Maria Pia Fanti is an Italian control theorist known for her research on topics that include discrete event dynamic systems, Petri nets, consensus, fault detection and isolation, agile manufacturing, and road traffic control. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, where she heads the Laboratory for Control and Automation.

#7977

Henry Laufer

#172829

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Henry B. Laufer is an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. He served as the Vice President of Research at Renaissance Technologies. Early life Henry B. Laufer was born to a Jewish family in 1945. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1965, studying with Robert Gunning.

#7978

Rongwei Fu

#131636

Overall Influence

Rongwei F. Fu is a biostatistician who uses meta-analysis to understand disease incidence, detection, and treatment. She is a professor of biostatistics, medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University , and the director of biostatistics education at OHSU. She has also worked as lead biostatistician for the OHSU Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine , at the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center , and at the OHSU Research Center for Gender-Based Medicine.

#7979

Roderick J. A. Little

#140459

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Roderick Joseph Alexander Little is an academic statistician, whose main research contributions lie in the statistical analysis of data with missing values and the analysis of complex sample survey data. Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he also holds academic appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research.

#7980

Haiyan Huang

#130437

Overall Influence

Haiyan Huang is a Chinese-American biostatistician. She works as a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Center for Computational Biology. She is the coauthor of highly cited work on the human genome, published as part of the ENCODE research consortium, and has also published foundational work on the statistical modeling of experimental reproducibility.

#7981

Joe Simon

#24054

Overall Influence

1913 - 2011 (98 years)

Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.

#7982

Anatoli Prudnikov

#172241

Overall Influence

1927 - 1999 (72 years)

Anatolii Platonovich Prudnikov was a Russian mathematician. In 1930 the Prudnikov family moved to Samara, where Anatolii passed his Abitur in 1944. He then studied at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute for three years and at the Kuibyshev Pedagogical Institute for one year before completing his degree qualifying him as a teacher. In 1968 he received his doctorate under the direction of professor Vitalii Arsenievich Ditkin with a thesis entitled On a class of integral transforms of Volterra type and some generalizations of operational calculus. With Ditkin, he published several handbooks on integral transforms and operational calculus.

#7983

Fausto Cercignani

Fausto Cercignani

#6143

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Fausto Cercignani is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet. Biography Born to Tuscan parents, Fausto Cercignani studied in Milan, where he graduated in foreign languages and literatures with a dissertation dealing with English at Shakespeare’s time. His career as a university professor was at first characterized by philological investigations in the fields of English studies and Germanic studies. In 1983, after teaching at the Universities of Bergamo , Parma , and Pisa , he returned to Milan and carried on his activity at the University of Milan, where he intensified his researches on German ...

#7984

Janet Myhre

#104778

Overall Influence

Janet M. Myhre is an American statistician, the Dengler-Dykema Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics at Claremont McKenna College. Myhre did her undergraduate studies at Pacific Lutheran University, earned a master's degree at the University of Washington, and completed her doctorate at Stockholm University. She joined the Claremont McKenna faculty in 1962. There, in 1975, she was the founding director of the Reed Institute for Decision Science, later to become the Reed Institute for Applied Statistics.

#7985

Don Ylvisaker

#169373

Overall Influence

1933 - 2022 (89 years)

Nils Donald Ylvisaker , often known as Don Ylvisaker, was an American mathematical statistician. Education and career Ylvisaker was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He studied at Concordia College and obtained his BA in mathematics and economics in 1954. He then continued his study in mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and obtained an MA in 1956. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1960 under the supervision of Emanuel Parzen. Ylvisaker was Parzen's first PhD student at Stanford.

#7986

Feng Chu

#137136

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Feng Chu is a Chinese-French computer scientist and operations researcher whose research applies Petri nets to combinatorial optimization problems arising in inventory control, manufacturing, and transportation. She is a distinguished professor at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne, where she is director of the AROBAS team within the IBISC laboratory, and head of the Chinese mission in the office of the president of the university.

#7987

Duncan C Thomas

#177504

Overall Influence

#7988

Pancheti Koteswaram

#60207

Overall Influence

1915 - 1997 (82 years)

Pancheti Koteswaram was an Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, atmospheric physicist and the Director-General of Observatories of Government of India. He was a professor at University of Chicago, University of Hawaii, University of Miami and Tehran University and served as a research associate at National Hurricane Research Laboratory, Miami, and the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Colorado. A former vice-president of World Meteorological Organization , Geneva, he was an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences.

#7989

Sofia Olhede

#145861

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Sofia Charlotta Olhede is a British-Swedish mathematical statistician known for her research on wavelets, graphons, and high-dimensional statistics and for her columns on algorithmic bias. She is a professor of statistical science at the EPFL .

#7990

Vazgen Manukyan

#62759

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Vazgen Mikayeli Manukyan is an Armenian politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Armenia from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Manukyan was acting Defence Minister of Armenia. He was also a member of Armenia's parliament from 1990 to 2007.

#7991

Bert Broer

#114833

Overall Influence

1916 - 1991 (75 years)

Lambertus Johannes Folkert "Bert" Broer was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. External links Prof. dr. L.J.F. Broer, 1916 - 1991 at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website

#7992

Stephen Wolff

#8030

Overall Influence

Stephen South Wolff is one of the many fathers of the Internet. He is mainly credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something that proved to have scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world. Dr. Wolff realized before most the potential in the Internet and began selling the idea that the Internet could have a profound effect on both the commercial and academic world.

#7993

Jean-Pierre Gazeau

#132775

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Jean-Pierre Gazeau is a French physicist and mathematician who works in the field of symmetry in quantum physics. His research has focused on coherent states; beta numeration for quasicrystals, and more generally for aperiodic order; and de Sitter space and anti-de Sitter space times. He is a professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité University .Through a career spanning 50 years, he has held research and teaching positions on five continents, with a particular concentration on developing and emerging countries.

#7994

Susan M. Sanchez

#124571

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Susan Marie Malila Sanchez is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of operations research, in agent-based simulation, and in data farming of simulation results. She is a professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School.

#7995

Elena Erosheva

#158653

Overall Influence

Elena Aleksandrovna Erosheva is a Russian-American statistician and social scientist whose research applies Bayesian hierarchical modeling and latent variable models to problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. She is a professor at the University of Washington, appointed jointly in the Department of Statistics and the School of Social Work, and the director of the university's Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.

#7996

Bedrich Benes

#109076

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Bedrich Benes is a computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics. Academic positions He is a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences, including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and he was a papers chair of Eurographics 2017. Dr. Benes is editor-in-chief of Graphical Models journal and he was editor-in-chief of Computer Graphics Forum . He is associate editor of Computers & Graphics., IEEE Transactions on Games, and in Silico Plants. He worked at Purdue Computer Graphics Technology from 2005-2021, where he held a named professorship .

#7997

Hannah Ritchie

#117670

Overall Influence

1993 - Present (32 years)

Hannah Ritchie is a Scottish data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Martin School and head of research at Our World in Data. Her research investigates the assessment of global food systems and visualising data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Her first book, The First Generation, is due to be published by Chatto & Windus.

#7998

David Earn

#177535

Overall Influence

David J. D. Earn is a Canadian mathematical epidemiologist. He is the Faculty of Science Research Chair in Mathematical Epidemiology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. In 2022, Earn was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

#7999

Arnold Naimark

#69425

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Arnold Naimark is a Canadian physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a B.Sc.Med. degree in 1957, a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1957, and a Master of Science degree in 1959 from the University of Manitoba.

#8000

Derek Roberts

#22353

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

Sir Derek Harry Roberts, was an English engineer who twice served as provost of University College London , from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2003. Engineering Roberts spent much of his professional life in industrial scientific research at Plessey's Caswell research centre, and later at the GEC Hirst Research Centre and as a director of GEC. For his contribution to early semiconductor research, Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture the same year. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, also in 1980. ...

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