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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8001

Radoslav Harman

#177917

Overall Influence

Radoslav Harman is a Slovak mathematician working in the area of optimal design of statistical experiments. He is currently a docent at Comenius University. Biography In 2004, Harman obtained PhD in statistics from Comenius University, under the supervision of Andrej Pazman. He has published 30 research papers in the field of optimal design.

#8002

Olga Vitek

#136035

Overall Influence

Olga Vitek is a biostatistician and computer scientist specializing in bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, causal inference of biological function, and the development of open-source software for statistical analysis in these areas. She is a professor in the College of Science and Khoury College of Computer Sciences of Northeastern University.

#8003

Alex Barnett

#87162

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Alex Barnett is an applied mathematician and musician who is a senior mathematician at the Flatiron Institute and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Barnett is also a jazz and funk musician. He has composed the music for a number of films by his wife, director Liz Canner.

#8004

Martha Aliaga

#133629

Overall Influence

1937 - 2011 (74 years)

Martha Beatriz Bilotti-Aliaga was an Argentine statistics educator, who served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Early life and education Martha Beatriz Bilotti was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She earned a master's degree in Santiago, Chile, at the Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics.

#8005

Vasily Denisov

#172148

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Vasily Denisov is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC . He defended the thesis "On the behavior for large values of the time of solutions of parabolic equations" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences .

#8006

Tamsin Edwards

#25517

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Tamsin Edwards is a British climate scientist and Professor at King's College London. She is a popular science communicator and writes for the Public Library of Science . Early life and education Edwards became interested in physics after reading A Brief History of Time. The daughter of Michael Edwards, she completed A-Levels in Physics, Chemistry and Maths at St Margaret's School, in Exeter. She studied physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. She completed a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Brian Cox. Her ...

#8007

Marie Diener-West

#130763

Overall Influence

Marie Diener-West is the Helen Abbey and Margaret Merrell Professor of Biostatistics and the chair of the Master of Public Health Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Diener-West is an editor for the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group and a member of the American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Society for Clinical Studies.

#8008

John T. Lewis

#64746

Overall Influence

1932 - 2004 (72 years)

John Trevor Lewis was a Welsh mathematical physicist who made contributions to areas including quantum measurement, Bose–Einstein condensation and large deviations theory. He was a senior professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland from 1972, serving as the director of the School of Theoretical Physics from 1975 until his retirement in 2001. He also founded the Communications Networks Research Institute at Dublin Institute of Technology.

#8009

Richard H. Stockbridge

#171503

Overall Influence

Richard H. Stockbridge is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His contributions to research primarily involve stochastic control theory, optimal stopping and mathematical finance. Most notably, alongside Professors Thomas G. Kurtz, Kurt Helmes, and Chao Zhu, he developed the methodology of using linear programming to solve stochastic control problems.

#8010

Anuar Dyusembaev

Anuar Dyusembaev

#145006

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Dyusembaev Anuar is a Kazakh mathematician. Biography Anuar Dyusembaev graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University, the math department of the faculty, the Department of Computer Science in 1975, the department of mathematics. Ph.D. specialty 01.01.09.- mathematical cybernetics, a place of protection of the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1984 Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, specialty 05.13.17.- theoretical bases of informatics, consultant academician Zhuravlev Yu.I., a place of protection of the Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences ....

#8011

Michael D. Escobar

#169934

Overall Influence

Michael David Escobar is an American biostatistician who is known for Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture models. Education and career Escobar earned a degree in mathematics at Tufts University in 1981 followed by a doctorate in statistics at Yale University in 1988 under the supervision of John Hartigan. Between 1990 and 1994, he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Escobar subsequently joined the University of Toronto faculty. In 2015, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#8012

Deepak Chopra

#178076

Overall Influence

#8013

Patricio Herbst

#176230

Overall Influence

Patricio Guillermo Herbst is an educator and mathematician. He is professor of education and mathematics at the University of Michigan, and editor-designate of Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, a peer-reviewed journal. He has been chair of the University of Michigan's Educational Studies Program since September 2015. Herbst received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He has an h-index of 29.

#8014

Michael Plank

#175425

Overall Influence

Michael John Plank is an English-born professor in mathematics and statistics at the University of Canterbury, and a principal investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini. Plank's research has focused on mechanistic mathematical and stochastic models and areas of expertise include ecological and social networks, population dynamics, epidemiological models and marine ecosystems. His work has included developing and applying models to the balanced managing of fishing sites, revitalisation of endangered languages and invasive plant and weed impact. As a Co-Lead for Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa, a research...

#8015

Ping Xu

#178157

Overall Influence

#8016

John David Crawford

#147986

Overall Influence

1954 - 1998 (44 years)

John David Crawford was a physicist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his undergraduate degree with honors from Princeton University in 1977 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.

#8017

Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe

#104319

Overall Influence

1951 - 2021 (70 years)

Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe was a Nigerian professor of Systems Engineering educational administrator and vice chancellor of the University of Lagos. He died from COVID-19 complications on 3 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

#8018

George L. Hart

#16069

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

George Luzerne Hart, III is Professor Emeritus of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the classical Tamil literature and on identifying the relationships between the Tamil and Sanskrit literature. In 2015 the Government of India awarded him the title of Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour.

#8019

Jane Pendergast

#85929

Overall Influence

Jane Pendergast is an American biostatistician specializing in multivariate statistics and longitudinal data. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University.

#8020

Gego

#27331

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt , known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculpturess made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".

#8021

Gene Deitch

#59211

Overall Influence

1924 - 2020 (96 years)

Eugene Merril Deitch was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020. Deitch was known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro, Tom Terrific, and Nudnik, as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series.

#8022

Motomi Mori

#145901

Overall Influence

Motomi Mori is a Japanese biostatistician. Formerly the Walter & Clora Brownfield Professor of Cancer Biostatistics at the Knight Cancer Institute of Oregon Health & Science University , she was named endowed professor and chair of biostatistics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020. She is the chair of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 2021.

#8023

Tatjana Ždanoka

#80527

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Tatjana Ždanoka or Tatyana Zhdanok is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. She is co-chairwoman of the Latvian Russian Union and its predecessor parties since 1993. From 1988 to 1989 she was one of the leaders of the Interfront, a political front organization opposing Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union and rapid market reforms. She remained active in the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, when the party leadership called for a coup against the government of the Latvian SSR . In 1997, Ždanoka was elected to Riga municipal council, but was deprived ...

#8024

Alexis Vasseur

#107448

Overall Influence

Alexis Vasseur is a French-American mathematician, specializing in fluid mechanics. He is currently the John T. Stuart III Professor at University of Texas at Austin. In 2015 he was named as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#8025

Mehmet Burak Erdoğan

#175046

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Mehmet Burak Erdoğan is a Turkish mathematician, scientist, and professor of mathematics. He is a member of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mathematics Department. Education Burak Erdoğan was born in 1972. He attended the high school Kayseri Fen Lisesi in Kayseri, Turkey, for two years before moving to İzmir, Turkey where he finished the high school Atatürk Lisesi in 1989. He ranked third in the country-wide university entrance exams. He graduated from Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Ankara in 1994. He finished his MSc in Mathematics department of the same university under the supervision of Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii in 1996.

#8026

Brian H. Murdoch

#55933

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Brian Hughes Murdoch was an Irish mathematician who served for 23 years as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin . He was an analyst with expertise in potential functions and random walks.

#8027

Grzegorz Rempala

Grzegorz Rempala

#151293

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Grzegorz A. Rempala is a Polish-American applied mathematician who works on the theory and applications of complex stochastic systems. Biography Rempala studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw from 1987 to 1991, and worked at the Computer Science Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1991 to 1992. In 1992 he moved to the US where in 1996 he completed his PhD thesis at Bowling Green State University. His advisor was Prof. Arjun K Gupta. In 1998 he nostrified his degree at the University of Warsaw in the Department of Mathematics. The chair of his nostrification committee was Prof.

#8028

Marijka Batterham

#177489

Overall Influence

Professor Marijka J. Batterham is a multidisciplinary statistician, Director of the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, and the first dedicated appointment as Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre at the University of Wollongong.

#8029

Susan van den Heever

#169947

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Susan Claire van den Heever is a South African atmospheric scientist who is a professor at Colorado State University. Her research considers cloud physics and mesoscale modelling. She is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and an editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

#8030

F. DuBois Bowman

F. DuBois Bowman

#150825

Overall Influence

Fredrick DuBois Bowman is an American statistician who is the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. His research applies statistical analysis to brain imaging to better understand Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. Bowman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#8031

John Tulloch

#176569

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

John Tulloch is a British-Australian educator and university lecturer who is best known as a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. He became a symbol of the attacks when a photograph with his injuries was published. Tulloch faced deportation from the United Kingdom due to a dispute over his citizenship which was resolved in November 2012.

#8032

Don Rees

#150248

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Dr. Donald Rees is the former warden of Hugh Stewart Hall in the University of Nottingham for 29 years . Dr. Rees was a highly respected academic, being a professor of mathematics, and a leading member of the University community. He was the last warden to inhabit the Warden's House at Hugh Stewart in its entirety. The Hall library is now named after Dr. Rees in recognition of his service to the Hall, the University and the City.

#8033

Ruth King

#138074

Overall Influence

Ruth King FRSE FLSW is the current Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, having held the position since 2015. Prior to this she held positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews.

#8034

Andrew Raftery

#95363

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Andrew Stein Raftery is an American artist and educator, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life. Biography In 1984, Raftery earned his B.F.A. degree in painting from Boston University, and took his first intaglio printing class with . In 1988, he completed his M.F.A. degree in printmaking from Yale University. He is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design teaching in the printmaking and painting departments, since 1991. He credits Stanley William Hayter and his proteges in Atelier 17 as an influe...

#8035

Shili Lin

#167827

Overall Influence

Shili Lin is a statistician who studies the applications of statistics to genomic data. She is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University, and is president-elect of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#8036

Nasser Sweilam

#176047

Overall Influence

Nasser Hassan Sweilam is an Egyptian professor of numerical analysis at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. A member of the African Academy of Sciences. A former Head of the Department of Mathematics, an ex-director of the Information Technology Unit and currently the Director of the E-learning Unit, Faculty of Science of the institution.

#8037

William Ward Armstrong

#34829

Overall Influence

William Ward Armstrong is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1966 and is most known as the originator Armstrong's axioms of dependency in a Relational database.

#8038

Paul Weiss

#111622

Overall Influence

1911 - 1991 (80 years)

Paul Weiss was a German and British mathematician and theoretical physicist, pioneer of canonical quantization of field theories. Biography Paul Weiss was born in Sagan in the German part of Silesia into a wealthy Jewish industrialist family. In 1929–1933 he was educated at the University of Göttingen, where he became a pupil of Max Born, with a break for the academic year 1930–31, when he worked as a school teacher; he also studied in Paris and Zurich for some time. After the Nazis came to power, Born left Germany and invited Weiss to the University of Cambridge; Weiss joined Born in the autumn of 1933 .

#8039

Thomas H. Brylawski

Thomas H. Brylawski

#177417

Overall Influence

1950 - 2007 (57 years)

Thomas Henry Brylawski was an American mathematician and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He worked primarily in matroid theory. Education and career Brylawski was born in 1944, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree, finishing with a Bachelor of Science in 1966. He then went on to Dartmouth College for his graduate work. He completed his PhD under the direction of Gian-Carlo Rota and Robert Norman in 1970. After his PhD, he moved to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he ...

#8040

Gianni Bellocchi

#108483

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Gianni Bellocchi is a researcher in agricultural and related sciences. He is credited with the development of approaches and tools in validation of estimates and measurements. Introduction of fuzzy logic in the context of validation is often considered to be the most significant contribution to the field of model and method validation.

#8041

Jill Dever

#111453

Overall Influence

Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.

#8042

Andreas Neubauer

#178611

Overall Influence

#8043

Mikael Rørdam

#176535

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Mikael Rørdam is a Danish mathematician, specializing in the theory of operator algebras and its applications. Education and career Rørdam graduated with master's degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1984. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with thesis The theory of unitary rank and regular approximation under the supervision of Richard Kadison. In the spring of 1988 Rørdam was a postdoc at the University of Toronto. At Odense University he was an Adjunkt from 1988 to 1991 and a Lektor from 1991 to 1997. He was a Lektor at the University of Copenhagen from 1998 to 2002 and full professor from 2002 to 2007 at the University of Southern Denmark.

#8044

Volker Oppitz

#116448

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Volker Oppitz is a German economist and mathematician. Life Oppitz graduated in 1950 from the Deutsche Müllerschule Dippoldiswalde , in 1952 from the School of Engineering Dippoldiswalde in mechanical and electrical engineering and in 1956 in economics at the Dresden University of Technology. In 1970 he earned his Ph.D. in the field of economics of industrial sectors at the Dresden University of Technology. In 1971 he became Assistant Professor at the Dresden University of Technology in Faculty of Economics. After making his habilitation treatise in 1981 at the University of Rostock he became in 1987 Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics of the Dresden University of Technology.

#8045

Genevera Allen

#105602

Overall Influence

Genevera Irene Allen is an American statistician whose research has involved interpretable machine learning, the reproducibility of machine learning results, and the neuroscience of synesthesia. She is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, statistics, and computer science at Rice University, and also holds affiliations with Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine.

#8046

Nancy Mathiowetz

#96232

Overall Influence

Nancy A. Mathiowetz is an American sociologist and statistician, known for her pioneering combination of cognitive psychology with survey methodology and for her research on poverty and disability. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the former editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly

#8047

Christopher Wathes

#121572

Overall Influence

1952 - 2016 (64 years)

Christopher Michael Wathes was a British research scientist who specialised in agricultural and veterinary science. Wathes was born in Birmingham in 1951 and graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc degree in physics in 1974. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1978 with a PhD in environmental physics.

#8048

Charles Anthony Micchelli

#131144

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (101 years)

Charles Anthony Micchelli is an American mathematician, with an international reputation in numerical analysis, approximation theory, and machine learning. Biography As the youngest of four children, he was born into an Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from Newark's East Side High School, he attended Rutgers University, where he graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then became a graduate student at Stanford University. After taking a course on Chebyshev polynomials taught by Gábor Szegő, he became interested in approximation theory. Micchelli graduated in 1969 with a PhD from Stanford University.

#8049

Sun Binyong

#125394

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Sun Binyong is a Chinese mathematician. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Early life and education Sun was born in Putuo District, Zhoushan, Zhejiang in November 1976, the second of three sons. His mother Liu Yadi is a housewife. His father Sun Kaizhu was a carpenter. He attended Shuangtang Middle School, Putuo Middle School and the High School attached to Tsinghua University. After high school, he entered Zhejiang University, where he graduated in 1999. In December 2004 he earned his doctorate degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supe...

#8050

Ross Ihaka

#178872

Overall Influence

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