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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8101

Theodore Seio Chihara

#179733

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Theodore Seio Chihara is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials who introduced Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials, Brenke–Chihara polynomials, and Chihara–Ismail polynomials. His brother is composer Paul Chihara.

#8102

Jimmy Douglass

#8166

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Jimmy Douglass, also known as "The Senator", is an American recording engineer and record producer. His career has spanned more than four decades. Career In the early 1970s at Atlantic Records studios in New York City, he started his studio career as a part-time tape duplicator while still attending high school. There he learned how to operate the studio's custom made 16-channel console and observed, was trained by, as well as worked with some of the greatest engineers, producers and record moguls including Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun. For his first time behind the faders, he was encouraged by Wexler to engineer the session recording for a demo of a new band.

#8103

Gabrielle Kelly

#106709

Overall Influence

Gabrielle Elizabeth Kelly is an Irish statistician. She is currently a professor of statistics at University College Dublin, and the former president of the Irish Statistical Association. Her research has included studies of the correlation between birth and death dates, and on correlations between student attendance at university lectures and the time of day of the lecture.

#8104

Heiko Enderling

#101867

Overall Influence

Heiko Enderling is a German-American mathematical biologist and mathematical oncologist whose research topics include radiotherapy, tumor-immune interactions, cancer stem cells, and dynamic biomarkers. He is a Senior Member in the Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, editor of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, and president of the Society for Mathematical Biology .

#8105

Dag Normann

#145605

Overall Influence

Dag Normann is a Norwegian mathematical logician. He was born in 1947 and is Professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on computability theory with an emphasis on mathematical models for typed algorithms and applications of the foundations of mathematics.

#8106

Suresh Chandra

#179843

Overall Influence

#8107

Karl Edwin Gustafson

#172167

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Karl Edwin Gustafson is an American mathematician. Gustafson spent most of his career at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the Department of Mathematics. He is known for developing the Antieigenvalue theory in applied mathematics.

#8108

Venansius Baryamureeba

#67050

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Venansius Baryamureeba is a Ugandan mathematician, computer scientist, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Acting vice chancellor of the Uganda Technology and Management University, a private university in Uganda, from September 2013 until 28 September 2015. He left the position to join the presidential race in Uganda to take place in 2016. Before that, he served as the vice chancellor of Makerere University from November 2009 until August 2012.

#8109

Glen M. Davis

#173927

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Glen Macartney Davis is an Australian-Canadian scientist who is Professor of Clinical Exercise Sciences at the University of Sydney. Career Davis received his undergraduate and post-graduate education in Canada, with his Ph.D. degree being conferred at the University of Toronto in 1986. Davis is a member of several international scientific societies including a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and Vice President of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society. Since 1985, he has conducted a variety of invited workshops, lectures and symposia with international scope in his research area of Exercise Therapy in Special Populations.

#8110

Don Woods

#9961

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Donald R. Woods is an American hacker and computer programmer. He is best known for his role in the development of the Colossal Cave Adventure game. Biography Early programming career Woods teamed with James M. Lyon while both were attending Princeton in 1972 to produce the unprecedented, excursive INTERCAL programming language. Later, he worked at the Stanford AI lab , where among other things he became the SAIL contact for, and a contributor to, the Jargon File. He also co-authored "The Hacker's Dictionary" with Mark Crispin, Raphael Finkel, and Guy L. Steele Jr.

#8111

Charles Pereira

#106813

Overall Influence

1913 - 2004 (91 years)

Sir Herbert Charles Pereira FRS was a British hydrologist. He was born in London but spent his early years in Saskatchewan on an Indian Reservation. He was educated there, then at St Albans School and the University of London, where he graduated in mathematics and physics.

#8112

John Smillie

#174616

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

John David Smillie is an American mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems. Biography His father, David Smillie, was a professor of psychology. John Smillie graduated in 1974 with a B.A. in mathematics from New College of Florida. At the university he graduated with an M.S. in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1977. His Ph.D. thesis Affinely flat manifolds was supervised by Richard Lashof. From 1977 to 1980 Smillie was an instructor at Princeton University. For the academic year 1980–1981 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was a postdoc for the academic year 1981–1982 at the University of California, Berkeley and for the academic year 1982–1983 at City University of New York .

#8113

Jenna Carpenter

#79009

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Jenna P. Carpenter is the Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. She was on the faculty at Louisiana Tech University for twenty-six years, where she was most recently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics in the College of Engineering and Science. She became the Founding Dean of Engineering and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University in 2015. She researches the importance of diversity in STEM fields, mainly focusing on women, as well as innovative STEM curricula.

#8114

Sugiyono

#179944

Overall Influence

#8115

Ralph Kenna

#95112

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Professor Ralph Kenna was an Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist who was head of the statistical physics research group at Coventry University. He was a specialist in statistical physics, complex systems and Irish mythology.

#8116

Sallie Ann Keller

#159547

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Sallie Ann Keller is a statistician and a former president of the American Statistical Association . She is currently a Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity and director of the Social and Decision Analytics Division within the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. She also joined the United States Census Bureau in October 2022 as Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology, replacing John M. Abowd.

#8117

Kazuhiko Aomoto

#180034

Overall Influence

Kazuhiko Aomoto is a Japanese mathematician who introduced the Aomoto-Gel'fand hypergeometric function and the Aomoto integral. He was a professor at Nagoya University. In 1996 he received the Mathematical Society of Japan autumn prize for his research on complex integration.

#8118

Marjorie Schick

Marjorie Schick

#87468

Overall Influence

1941 - 2017 (76 years)

Marjorie Schick was an innovative American jewelry artist and academic who taught art for 50 years. Approaching sculptural creations, her avant-garde pieces have been widely collected. Her works form part of the permanent collections of many of the world's leading art museums, including the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan; the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; and the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.

#8119

Ida Craven Merriam

#110481

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Ida Craven Merriam was an American economist and statistician who became "one of the seminal figures in the early administration of the Social Security program", helping to found the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance.

#8120

Hyune-Ju Kim

#169416

Overall Influence

H. Hyune-Ju Kim is a Korean-American statistician known for her research on change point detection, segmented regression, and applications to the analysis of mortality and incidence of cancer. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Syracuse University.

#8121

Luke Drury

#91472

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Luke O’Connor Drury is an Irish mathematician and astrophysicist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies with research interests in plasma physics, particle acceleration, gas dynamics, shock waves, and cosmic rays. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy from 2011 to 2014.

#8122

Phil Scarf

#170876

Overall Influence

Philip A. Scarf is Professor of Management Mathematics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He was formerly Professor of Applied Statistics at Salford Business School, University of Salford. A statistician, his interests are in modeling in sport, maintenance and reliability, and corrosion engineering. He advised the Press Association and the Football Association on the development of the Actim Index: the "official player rating system of the Premier League and Championship".

#8123

Stan van Hoesel

#173638

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Constantinus P. M. van Hoesel is a Dutch mathematician, and Professor of Operations Research at the Maastricht University, and head of its Quantitative Economics Group, known for his work on mathematical optimization.

#8124

Krista Varady

#104309

Overall Influence

Krista A. Varady is a Canadian-American scientist known for her studies of intermittent fasting on chronic disease risk in human subjects. Varady was one of the first scientists to study intermittent fasting in humans. As of 2022, she is a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago in the department of Kinesiology and Nutrition. She also serves as the director of the Human Nutrition Research Center at UIC. Her work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is also the co-author of a book about intermittent fasting for the general public, titled The Every ...

#8125

Alice Mary Hilton

#67718

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Alice Mary Hilton was a British-American academic and author. She coined the term cyberculture in 1963. She served as president of The Institute for Cybercultural Research, which she founded, and of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

#8126

Kristen Olson

#168717

Overall Influence

Kristen Marie Olson is an American sociologist and statistician specializing in survey methodology. She is the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and also directs its Bureau of Sociological Research.

#8127

Marcia Gumpertz

#124927

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Marcia Lynn Gumpertz is an American statistician known for her research on agricultural statistics, spatial analysis, the design of experiments, and plant disease epidemiology. She has also studied employment issues for women and members of underrepresented minorities in science and technology. She is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University.

#8128

Trevor Sheldon

#54405

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Trevor A. Sheldon is a British academic and University administrator who is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and Dean of Hull York Medical School. He has held academic posts at the University of York, the University of Leeds, the University of Leicester and Kingston University.

#8129

Seweryn Chajtman

#61610

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Seweryn Chajtman – a Polish scientist , engineer, teacher of organization and management in the industry , pioneered Computer Science in Poland. Creator of the Alternative Theory of Organization and Management.

#8130

Sophie Schbath

#167970

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Sophie Schbath is a French statistician whose research concerns the statistics of pattern matching in strings and formal languages, particularly as applied to genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food, and Environment , and a former president of the French BioInformatics Society.

#8131

Sophie Achard

#110869

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Sophie Achard is a French statistician and neuroscientist whose research concerns the statistics of the pattern of connectivity in the brain. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University.

#8132

Yordan Kyosev

#85244

Overall Influence

Yordan Kyosev is a German scientist and professor of Bulgarian origin, working in the area of textile and clothing technologies and machines. His book Braiding technology for textiles becomes the main modern source for learning Industrial Braiding and received book prize. He is as well the main developer of a few unique software packages for 3D modeling braided structures, braiding machines and warp knitted structures. The algorithms of these are documented in "Topology-Based Modeling of Textile Structures and Their Joint Assemblies"

#8133

Ludovic Ferrière

#92606

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Ludovic Ferrière is a geologist and curator of the meteorite collection and of the impactite collection at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. He is known for his research on meteorite impact craters.

#8134

Mircea Puta

#169928

Overall Influence

1950 - 2007 (57 years)

Mircea Puta was a Romanian mathematician, the 1983 recipient of the Simion Stoilow Prize of the Romanian Academy. He is the author of over 190 articles and two books. Puta started his undergraduate studies at West University of Timișoara in 1969, graduating in 1974. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1979, under the supervision of Dan Papuc, after which he joined the faculty at his alma mater, becoming a Professor in 1993.

#8135

Matthew Bunn

#48724

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Matthew Bunn is an American nuclear and energy policy analyst, currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom.

#8136

Cristina Parel

#172451

Overall Influence

1901 - 2011 (110 years)

Cristina Perlas Parel was a Filipina statistician, the first Filipino to earn a doctorate in statistics, the former dean of the Statistical Center at the University of the Philippines, and at the time of her death the only professor emeritus of statistics at the University of the Philippines. She was president of the Philippine Statistical Association in 1966 and 1969, the first female president of the association.

#8137

Marcelo Viana

#180425

Overall Influence

#8138

Vladimir Malanin

#144594

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Malanin is a Russian mathematician. Rector, vice-rector and president of Perm University. Head of the Department of Control Processes and Information Security of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Perm University. Confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections .

#8139

Brailey Sims

#150329

Overall Influence

Brailey Sims is an Australian mathematician born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales. He received his BSc from the University of New South Wales in 1969 and, under the supervision of J. R. Giles, a PhD from the same university in 1972. He was on the faculty of the University of New England from 1972 to 1989. In 1990 he took up an appointment at the University of Newcastle . where he was Head of Mathematics from 1997 to 2000.

#8140

Peter Hislop

#120673

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Peter D. Hislop is an American mathematician, formerly the Ralph E. and Norma L. Edwards Research Professor and University Research Professor , at the University of Kentucky, and also a published author.

#8141

Ivan Losev

#178594

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Ivan Vadimovich Loseu is a Belarusian-American mathematician, specializing in representation theory, symplectic geometry, algebraic geometry, and combinatorial algebra. Education and career Losev matriculated in 1999 at Belarusian State University, where he graduated in 2004 with an M.Sc. from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. From 2004 to 2007 he was a graduate student in the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. There in 2007 he received his Ph.D. with thesis Classification of some coisotropic actions of algebraic groups and advisor E. B.

#8142

Diet Sayler

#68350

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Diet Sayler is a German painter and sculptor. Education, early work Diet Sayler studied Structural Engineering at the Technical University of Timișoara and Painting under Julius Podlipny. In the early 1960s he created an abstract painting that was subsequently defamed as Western and decadent and excluded from all exhibitions. It was not until 1968, during the Prague Spring, that the exhibition "5 young artists" in Galeria Kalinderu in Bucharest showed abstract-constructive art in Romania for the first time. That was the breakthrough. Sayler moved to Bucharest and was able to exhibit abroad, but he was not allowed to travel.

#8143

Bonnie Ray

#108111

Overall Influence

Bonnie Kathryn Ray is an American statistician and data scientist, the head of data science at Chartbeat, a publisher data analytics firm. Her publications in statistics have concerned long-range dependence, change detection, orthogonal defect classification, and wide-ranging applications including financial market analysis, climate models, and software engineering.

#8144

Vyacheslav Kalashnikov Polishchuk

#148286

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Vyacheslav Vitalievich Kalashnikov is a Russian mathematics professor and researcher currently working at the Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus in Mexico. His work has been recognized by awards from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is also a Level III member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

#8145

Kiki Smith

#8242

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Kiki Smith is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York State.

#8146

Koloman Sokol

#53435

Overall Influence

1902 - 2003 (101 years)

Koloman Sokol was one of the most prominent Slovak painterss, graphic artists and illustrators. He was a founder of modern Slovak graphic art. Biography Koloman Sokol was born in Liptovský Mikuláš. He attended the private schools of Eugen Krón in Košice and Gustáv Mallý in Bratislava, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Švabinský and Tavik Frantisek Simon. In Czechoslovakia, he became a member in the SČUG Hollar, an association of Czechoslovak graphic artist. Following a brief period of study with František Kupka in Paris, he accepted an invitation from the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Education to teach his work.

#8147

Yang Fuqing

#122785

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Yang Fuqing is a Chinese computer software expert who is a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Peking University, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently chairwoman of the university's School of Software and Microelectronics and director of National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering.

#8148

Steve MacEachern

#179986

Overall Influence

Steve MacEachern is an American Statistician. MacEachern is a Distinguished Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics at the Ohio State University. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Carleton College in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota in 1988. His doctoral work focused on nonparametric Bayesian methods under the guidance of Don Berry. MacEachern joined the faculty at Ohio State in 1988 and has been a member of the Department of Statistics ever since. He has a courtesy appointment as a Professor in the Department of Psychology. He is best known for Bayesian modeling and computation, with a particular emphasis on dependent Dirichlet processes.

#8149

Amelia Haviland

#173542

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Amelia M. Haviland is an American statistician currently the Anna Loomis McCandless Professor of Statistics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.

#8150

Robert Griffiths

#105011

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Robert Charles Griffiths, FRS is an Australian mathematician and statistician known for his work in mathematical population genetics. He is professor of mathematical genetics in the University of Oxford, and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall.

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