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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8151

Bruce L. Edwards

Bruce L. Edwards

#49651

Overall Influence

1952 - 2015 (63 years)

Bruce L. Edwards was an American Professor Emeritus of English and Africana Studies. He also served as Associate Vice President for Online Programs and E-learning Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was a faculty member and administrator between 1981-2012.

#8152

Cajo ter Braak

#180705

Overall Influence

#8153

Alexander Ilyin

#173199

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Alexander Ilyin He defended the thesis «Robust inversion of dynamic systems» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences . He has authored four books and more than 90 scientific articles.

#8154

C. Shane Reese

#38573

Overall Influence

Christopher Shane Reese is an American statistician, academic administrator, and 14th president of Brigham Young University . At BYU, he previously served as Academic Vice President , dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and as the Melvin W. Carter professor of statistics.

#8155

David H. Bailey

#180771

Overall Influence

#8156

Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson

#58416

Overall Influence

1957 - 2016 (59 years)

Richard Church Thompson was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac and the illustrated poem "Make the Pie Higher". He was given the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2010.

#8157

Inge Koch

#169888

Overall Influence

Inge Koch is an Australian statistician, author, and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics. Koch is the author of Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data , and is a Professor in Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Previously, she has worked as an associate professor at University of Adelaide and taught statistics at the University of New South Wales.

#8158

Virginia Lesser

#63819

Overall Influence

Virginia Marie Lesser is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician known for her research on non-sampling error, survey methodology, and agricultural applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics and chair of the statistics department at Oregon State University.

#8159

Yoshiharu Sekino

#12831

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Yoshiharu Sekino is a Japanese surgeon, explorer, travel writer, photographer and anthropologist. Biography Sekino was born in 1949 in Tokyo. While a student at Hitotsubashi University, he cofounded and participated in a university team that descended the entire length of the Amazon, thereafter travelling around South America. He received a B.A. in law from Hitotsubashi University in 1975 and an M.D. from Yokohama City University School of Medicine in 1982.

#8160

Paul Cohen

#180894

Overall Influence

#8161

Didier Guillemot

#102776

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Didier Guillemot is a French Doctor, specializing in infectious disease. He was president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University from May 2016 to September 2017. Biography Training Didier Guillemot was trained in technological innovation and public health at Paris Diderot University. On 2003, he qualified to manage research at the same university.

#8162

John Meadows Jackson

#110304

Overall Influence

1907 - 1998 (91 years)

Dr John Meadows Jackson FRSE FIMA FRAS was a British mathematician. Life He was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy on the edge of Manchester on 8 February 1907. His mother died during his birth and he was raised by his grandparents. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School having won a scholarship on the basis of his intellect.

#8163

Barbara A. Bailar

#170919

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Barbara Ann Bailar is an American statistician, who worked for many years at the United States Census Bureau but resigned in protest over the decision not to adjust its 1990 results. She is the only person to have been both president and executive director of the American Statistical Association.

#8164

Tony Oursler

#14594

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Tony Oursler is an American multimedia and installation artist. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums, working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.

#8165

Silvia Bolland

#181042

Overall Influence

Silvia Bolland is an American biomedical scientist serving as chief of the autoimmunity and functional genomics section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Cantabria and received postdoctoral training at Harvard and Rockefeller University. Her areas of research include the identification of new genetic modifiers of systemic autoimmune disease, dose effect of Toll-like receptor genes and its role in autoimmune pathologies, and inhibitory signaling pathways mediated by the IgG Fc receptor and the phosphoin...

#8166

Edward Aboufadel

#173125

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Edward F. Aboufadel is an American mathematician currently Professor at Grand Valley State University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education He earned his B.S at Michigan State University in 1986 and his PhD at Rutgers University in 1992 under the supervision of Jane Cronin Scanlon.

#8167

Katsuya Eda

#179229

Overall Influence

is a mathematician, currently a professor at Waseda University. His research centers on set theory and its applications, particularly in algebraic topology. He has done a great deal of work on the fundamental group of the Hawaiian earring and related subjects.

#8168

Gabor Korvin

#169123

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Gabor Korvin is a Hungarian Mathematician. He served as a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. His main areas of research interest include fractal geometry in the earth sciences, statistical rock physics and mathematical geophysics. He is a well-known Applied Mathematician, Geophysicist, Petrophysicist, Historian. At KFUPM he was Coordinator of the Reservoir Characterization Research Group. As Professor, he taught Reservoir Characterization, Seismic Stratigraphy, Petrophysics & Well logging, Solid Earth Geophysics, Geoelectric Exploration, Reflection Seismology, Inverse Problems, Geostatistics and Reservoir Characterization.

#8169

Frank Grosshans

#175556

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Frank Grosshans is an American mathematician who works in invariant theory, where he is known for the discovery of Grosshans subgroups and Grosshans graded coefficients. He is a professor of mathematics at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. Grosshans has been an invited speaker at meetings of the Mathematical Association of America.

#8170

Rolland Hein

#70074

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Rolland Hein was an American academic of English literature. He was professor emeritus of English at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Early life and education Hein was born on September 12, 1932, as the son of George and Henrietta Hein. He grew up on a farm outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended Bob Jones University and graduated from Wheaton College in 1954.

#8171

Jill DeMatteis

#159224

Overall Influence

Jill Marie Montaquila DeMatteis is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology. She has worked as a statistician in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and is a research associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and a vice president in the Statistics and Evaluation Sciences Group of Westat.

#8172

Kary Myers

#148838

Overall Influence

Kary Lynn Myers is an American statistician whose research has included work on scientific data analysis and radiation monitoring. She is a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she has been the deputy leader of the Statistical Sciences group. She is also known as the founder and organizer of the biennial Conference on Data Analysis , for data-driven research within the United States Department of Energy.

#8173

Dmitry Ioffe

#179606

Overall Influence

1963 - 2020 (57 years)

Dmitry Ioffe was an Israeli mathematician, specializing in probability theory. Biography Dmitry Ioffe obtained his diploma from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1985 and his PhD in mathematics in 1991 from the Technion, under the supervision of Ross Pinsky. He then spent a post-doc at the University of California, Davis and the Courant Institute. He was an assistant professor at Northwestern University and a researcher at the Weierstrass Institute of Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin , before returning to the Technion, where he spent the rest of his life as professor. From 2014, he was the ...

#8174

Chris Bachalo

#72626

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Chris Bachalo is a Canadian comic book illustrator known for his quirky, cartoon-like style. He became well known for stints on DC Comics' Shade, the Changing Man and Neil Gaiman's two Death series. Chris has also illustrated several of Marvel Comics' X-Men-related series, including Generation X , X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Ultimate X-Men. Beginning in April 2000 Chris illustrated his creator-owned series Steampunk.

#8175

Ram Kishore Saxena

#181220

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Ram Kishore Saxena D.Sc , FNASc is an Indian mathematician and Emeritus professor, UGC Jai Narain Vyas University and former Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics. Published work Saxena has published 356 research papers; under his supervision many scholars has done PhD and post-doctoral research. Saxena has published books.

#8176

Robert Daverman

#181268

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Robert Jay Daverman is an American topologist. Daverman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 28 September 1941. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1963 from Calvin College and pursued doctoral study under R. H. Bing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After completing his thesis Locally Fenced 2-spheres in S3 in 1967, Daverman began teaching at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. While on the Knoxville faculty, Daverman served on the American Mathematical Society's Committee on Science Policy. By the time he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the AMS in 2012, Daverman had ...

#8177

Josef Stoer

#181283

Overall Influence

#8178

John Barrett

#134645

Overall Influence

John Richard Barrett is a British academic who is chair in Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Leeds. He is the Director of the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products and co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre.

#8179

Volodymyr Petryshyn

#173145

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Walter Volodymyr Petryshyn was a famous Ukrainian mathematician. On May 6, 1996, Petryshyn killed his wife, Ukrainian-American painter Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn. He suffered from a severe depression which caused the tragedy and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#8180

Péter Kiss

#174458

Overall Influence

1937 - 2002 (65 years)

Péter Kiss was a Hungarian mathematician, Doctor of Mathematics, and professor of mathematics at Eszterházy Károly College, who specialized in number theory. In 1992 he won the Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for his achievements.

#8181

David Kimble

#49094

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

David Bryant Kimble was a British academic whose career was spent mostly in Tanzania, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini and Malawi. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Malawi from 1977 to 1987. Biographical details Kimble was born in Horam, Sussex, into a family of Plymouth Brethren. He attended Eastbourne Grammar School and Reading University where he took a degree in modern studies, graduating in 1942 before taking a postgraduate diploma in education.

#8182

Estelle Russek-Cohen

#169607

Overall Influence

Estelle Russek-Cohen is an American biostatistician and expert on biometrics. Formerly a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and division director in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research or the Food and Drug Administration, she has retired to become a statistical consultant.

#8183

Daniel Lazard

#181440

Overall Influence

#8184

Katherine Monti

#155827

Overall Influence

Katherine Lane Monti is an American biostatistician known for her works on graphical techniques in statistics and on the statistics of pet health. Education and career Monti is the daughter of Katherine Buckley Nuckolls, the former chair of pediatric nursing at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1971, married sociologist Daniel J. Monti Jr., and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1975 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, The Locally Optimal Combination of Certain Multivariate Test Statistics, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.

#8185

Lurdes Inoue

#145112

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Inoue is a Brazilian-born statistician of Japanese descent, who specializes in Bayesian inference. She works as a professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health.

#8186

William J. Firey

#159117

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

William James Firey was an American mathematician, specializing in the geometry of convex bodies. Born in Montana, Firey moved with his family to Seattle when he was 6 years old. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a medical technician in Europe. He married in 1946. During the first years of their marriage, the couple worked for the United States Forest Service during summers in fire look-out stations in the Washington Cascades.

#8187

Lynn Kuo

#168770

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Lynn Kuo is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications .

#8188

John Sall

#121369

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

John P. Sall is an American billionaire businessman and computer software developer, who co-founded SAS Institute and created the JMP statistical software. Sall grew up in Rockford, Illinois and earned degrees in history, economics and statistics. In 1976, he joined others from North Carolina State University in co-founding SAS Institute, an analytics software company. In the 1980s, Sall and other developers created the JMP statistical software.

#8189

Bonnie Duran

#161217

Overall Influence

Bonnie Duran is an American public health researcher and Professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health. Duran studies the public health of indigenous communities, and has partnered with the Navajo Nation, Indian Health Service and National Congress of American Indians.

#8190

Henry C. Wente

#172392

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Henry Christian Wente was an American mathematician, known for his 1986 discovery of the Wente torus, an immersed constant-mean-curvature surface whose existence disproved a conjecture of Heinz Hopf.

#8191

Trude Storelvmo

#149831

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Trude Storelvmo is a Norwegian meteorologist who is a professor at the University of Oslo. She specializes in atmospheric science and studies the impact of aerosols and clouds on the climate of the Earth. She was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2018. She serves as editor-in-chief of Global and Planetary Change.

#8192

Francis Farley

#83887

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Francis James Macdonald Farley FRS was a British scientist. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 16 March 1972 earning the designation FRS. He was also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge. Farley obtained his PhD from Cambridge in 1950.

#8193

Raúl Anguiano

#40161

Overall Influence

1923 - 2006 (83 years)

José Raúl Anguiano Valadez was a notable Mexican painter of the 20th century, part of the “second generation” of Mexican muralists which continued the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros but experimented with it as well. Anguiano was born during the height of the Mexican Revolution, which would inspire a majority of his mural painting. He studied painting in his hometown of Guadalajara before moving to Mexico City to begin his career. His first major exhibition was held at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, at age 20. His works include over 100 individual and collective exhibitions with 50 murals, mostly in Mexico and the United States.

#8194

William Hale

#64807

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

#8195

John Jakes

#5590

Overall Influence

1932 - 2023 (91 years)

John William Jakes was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.

#8196

Seymour Cray

#88193

Overall Influence

1925 - 1996 (71 years)

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Se...

#8197

James N. Miller

#181736

Overall Influence

#8198

Sidonia Făgărășan

#52642

Overall Influence

Sidonia Făgărășan is a Romanian biological scientist who is a professor at the Riken Institute in Japan. Her research considers the molecular mechanisms that underpin processes in gut microbioata and the mucosal barrier. In 2020, she was awarded the Kobayashi Foundation Award.

#8199

Mikyoung Jun

#165260

Overall Influence

Mikyoung Jun is a Korean-American statistician whose research topics have included the covariance of non-stationary spatial models, and applications in atmospheric science and climate modeling as well as to understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of global terrorism. She is ConocoPhillips Professor of Data Science in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Houston.

#8200

Vernon Chinchilli

#167858

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Vernon M. Chinchilli is an American biostatistician and Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine, where he is also Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences. He is also a professor of Statistics at Penn State University.

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