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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8301

Kathi Irvine

#158228

Overall Influence

Kathryn Mary Irvine is an American research statistician for the United States Geological Survey , affiliated with the Bozeman Environmental and Ecological Statistics Research Group, at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman, Montana. Her research involves environmental statistics including both the fundamentals of spatial statistics and its application to wildlife populations including bats, pikas, elk, pine trees, and sagebrush steppes.

#8302

Keumhee Carrière Chough

#180044

Overall Influence

Keumhee Carrière Chough is a Korean-Canadian statistician whose theoretical contributions include work on repeated measures design; she is co-editor of Analysis of Mixed Data: Methods & Application, and has also contributed to highly cited works on public health. She is a professor of mathematical and statistical sciences at the University of Alberta.

#8303

Michael J. Marquardt

#95323

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Michael J. Marquardt is an American academic. He is a professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs at George Washington University. He was the co-founder and first President of the World Institute of Action Learning , a leading organization for certifying action learning coaches.

#8304

Rajat Subhra Hazra

#184187

Overall Influence

Dr. Rajat Subhra Hazra is an Indian mathematician specialising in probability theory. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2020 in mathematical science category. He is affiliated to the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, the Netherlands from 2021. Prior to that he was affiliated to Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Hazra has a very broad range of research interests including extreme value theory, regular variation, random matrices, free probability, Gaussian free fields, branching random...

#8305

Toshiki Mabuchi

#184210

Overall Influence

#8306

Bjørn Nørgaard

#25884

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Bjørn Nørgaard is a Danish artist who has been active in a variety of fields. He has significantly influenced the art scene in Denmark both through his "happenings" and his sculptures in Danish cities. Although he has specialized in sculpture since 1970, his greatest achievement is perhaps his work in designing Queen Margrethe II's tapestries. Nørgaard was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1994. His main workshop is in the village of Bissinge on the island of Møn.

#8307

Alexander Mathis

#127868

Overall Influence

Alexander Mathis is an Austrian mathematician, computational neuroscientist and software developer. He is currently an assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. His research interest focus on research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning.

#8308

Subodh Sarkar

#34663

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Subodh Sarkar is a Bengali poet, writer and editor, and a reader in English literature at City College, Kolkata. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. Biography Subodh Sarkar, born in 1958, is a noted Indian Bengali poet, editor, translator and Associate Professor in English at City College, Calcutta University. His first book of poems was published in the late 70s. He received the West Bengal Bangla Academy Award for poetry in 2000. His PhD is on the hyphenated identities of Indian American women writers writing in English. He visited Russia and Turkey as a member of the Indian Writers’ delegation organized by Sahitya Academy in 2010.

#8309

Dmitri Yafaev

#181598

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Dmitri R. Yafaev is a Russian-French mathematical physicist. At the University of Leningrad Yafaev received his Russian Candidate degree in 1973 with thesis advisor Mikhail Birman and was a lecturer from 1973 to 1977. From 1977 to 1990 Yafaev was a researcher and senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. At the University of Nantes he was an associate professor from 1990 to 1992. Since 1992 he is a full professor at the University of Rennes 1.

#8310

Leslie McClure

#158553

Overall Influence

Leslie Ain McClure is an American biostatistician. She is a Full professor of biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health and was the inaugural Associate Director of Diversity for the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute .

#8311

Janet Sinsheimer

#92653

Overall Influence

Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer was an American expert in statistical genetics who worked as a professor of human genetics, biomathematics and biostatistics in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Topics in her research included genome-wide association studies, epigenetics, and Bayesian methods for phylogenetics.

#8312

Joanne Wendelberger

#171576

Overall Influence

Joanne Roth Wendelberger is an American statistician and a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Education and career Wendelberger is a 1981 graduate of Oberlin College. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her dissertation, Impact, Identification and Estimation of Sources of Transmitted Variation , was supervised by George E. P. Box, and her graduate work was also influenced by William Hunter and Brian Joiner.

#8313

Nandini Kannan

#161949

Overall Influence

Nandini Kannan is the Executive Director at the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum . Education and career Kannan received her PhD in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in 1992. Her dissertation, Estimation of Direction of Arrival in Signal Processing Models, was supervised by C. R. Rao.

#8314

Joan Staniswalis

#137805

Overall Influence

1957 - 2018 (61 years)

Joan Georgette Staniswalis was an American statistician who made "significant contributions to theory and biomedical applications" of statistics, including the effects of air quality and racial inequality on health.

#8315

Landon Curt Noll

Landon Curt Noll

#33229

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward.

#8316

Fred Galvin

#184504

Overall Influence

#8317

John R. Terry

#152307

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

John R. Terry is a British mathematician, currently an Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow and EPSRC Established Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he is Director of the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine. He was previously Director of the EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare, a £2M initiative funded by the EPSRC. He is well known for the development and application of mathematical techniques in biology and medicine, notably epilepsy and neuroendocrinology. He is a member of the ILAE task force on Network Diseases, as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Epilepsy Research UK.

#8318

Terry Slater

#76801

Overall Influence

Terry Slater is an honorary senior research fellow in Historical Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. Born in Bromley but raised in Charlton he was educated at Hull University, University College, London and the University of Birmingham.

#8319

Alexey Gorgidze

Alexey Gorgidze

#168178

Overall Influence

1907 - 1992 (85 years)

Alexey Yasonovich Gorgidze was the Soviet and Georgian mathematician and engineer, Laureate of the State Prize of Georgia 1998, Honored Scientist, and Professor. Biography He was born on 17 May 1907 in Kutaisi. In 1924 he graduated from the Socio-Humanitarian College, and entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Tbilisi State University. Since 1929 he has started working at Department of Theoretical Mechanics of the Georgian Technical University. In 1932 he continued studying in Leningrad State University and finished it in 1935. After returning he worked at Georgian Technical U...

#8320

David Kirby

#184662

Overall Influence

#8321

Julie Swann

#91773

Overall Influence

Julie LeAnne Swann is an American systems engineer and operations researcher who studies optimization-based improvements to supply chains, logistics, health care, the mathematical modelling of infectious disease, and disaster relief. She is A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and head of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. She was elected President-Elect of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in 2023

#8322

Harvey Schmidt

#84731

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Harvey Lester Schmidt was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway for 42 years, from 1960 to 2002.

#8323

Rafael De Cabo

#184732

Overall Influence

#8324

Yong Ding

#184737

Overall Influence

#8325

John Robinson

#184738

Overall Influence

#8326

Nancy Cox

#76248

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Nancy J. Cox is an American virologist who has served as the director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2014 and as director of the CDC's World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza from 1992 to 2014. Cox served as the Chair and Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of GISAID, between the years 2008 and 2017 and is frequently recognized for having played an instrumental role in the success of GISAID.

#8327

Hilary Parker

#141001

Overall Influence

Hilary S. Parker is an American biostatistician and data scientist. She was formerly a senior data analyst at the fashion merchandising company Stitch Fix. Parker co-hosts the data analytics podcast Not So Standard Deviations with Roger Peng. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has formerly been employed by Etsy.

#8328

Jerry Pinkney

#12829

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Jerry Pinkney was an American illustrator and writer of children's literature. Pinkney illustrated over 100 books since 1964, including picture books, nonfiction titles and novels. Pinkney's works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors.

#8329

Shujie Ma

#169028

Overall Influence

Shujie Ma is a Chinese-American statistician specializing in nonparametric regression and semiparametric regression and their applications in machine learning. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Riverside.

#8330

Jackie Dawson

#175352

Overall Influence

Jackie Dawson is a Canadian academic who holds the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy. Dawson is also co-Scientific Director of ArcticNet, where she is currently a member of the Board of Directors.

#8331

John Breen

#61867

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

John Lawrence Breen is a British academic and Japanologist. He is a specialist in Japanese history at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He writes in English and Japanese on the history of Shinto and the imperial institution.

#8332

Joaquín Bustoz Jr.

#182840

Overall Influence

1939 - 2003 (64 years)

Joaquín Bustoz Jr. was an American mathematician who worked as a professor of mathematics at Arizona State University. His mathematical research concerned functional analysis, including orthogonal polynomials and special functions, but he was primarily known as a mentor to underrepresented minorities in mathematics.

#8333

Sergey Bolotin

#184962

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Sergey Vladimirovich Bolotin is a Russian mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems of classical mechanics. Biography Bolotin graduated in 1976 from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. There he received in 1981 his Candidate of Sciences degree with thesis Либрационные движения обратимых механических систем . He received in 1998 his Russian Doctor of Sciences degree with thesis Двоякоасимптотические траектории и условия интегрируемости гамильтоновых систем .

#8334

Katrina A. B. Goddard

#170069

Overall Influence

Katrina A. Blouke Goddard is an American genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in public health genomics and the translation of genomic applications into clinical practice. Goddard is the director of the division of cancer control and population sciences at the National Cancer Institute . She was previously the distinguished investigator and director of translational and applied genomics at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University.

#8335

Sidney Michaelson

#153937

Overall Influence

1925 - 1991 (66 years)

Sidney Michaelson FRSE FIMA FSA FBCS was Scotland's first professor of Computer Science. He was joint founder of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. As an author he is remembered for his analysis of the Bible.

#8336

Rosemary Pattenden

#101453

Overall Influence

Rosemary Pattenden is emeritus professor at UEA Law School. She took the degrees of bachelor of commerce and bachelor of laws at the University of New South Wales and doctor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. On the completion of her DPhil in 1979 she joined the University of East Anglia where she was lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and, between 1998 and 2013, professor.

#8337

Christian Lantuéjoul

Christian Lantuéjoul

#155849

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Christian Lantuéjoul is a French mathematician. Lantuéjoul was selected to receive Georges Matheron Lectureship Award – 2018 from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. Lantuéjoul serves as Director of Research at School of Mines ParisTech.

#8338

Anatol Odzijewicz

#183745

Overall Influence

1947 - 2022 (75 years)

Anatol Odzijewicz was Polish mathematician and physicist. The main areas of his research were the theory of Banach groupoidss and algebroidss related to the structure of W*-algebras, quantization of physical systems by means of the coherent state map, as well as quantum and classical integrable systems.

#8339

Andrei Vladimirovich Roiter

#184573

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

#8340

Victor Zaslavsky

#61214

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Victor Lvovich Zaslavsky was a professor of political sociology who taught at various institutions, such as LUISS , the Leningrad State University, the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and elsewhere, during a long academic career. He developed trenchant analyses of political and social aspects of the Soviet Union, prior to and following its collapse.

#8341

Keith Miller

#185149

Overall Influence

#8342

Georg Herold

#61030

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Georg Herold is a German artist. He works in sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and video art. He lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Early life and education Herold finalized a traineeship as an artist blacksmith and attended the University of Art and Design Halle from 1969 to 1973. In 1974, Herold left the German Democratic Republic, went to Munich and attended the Academy of Fine Arts . Harold left Munich and went to Hamburg where, under the mentoring of Sigmar Polke, he has graduated the University of Fine Arts.

#8343

John M. Richardson

#58271

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

John Martin Richardson, Jr. born on March 12, 1938, is an American academic who writes, lectures, and consults in applied systems analysis, international development, conflict-development linkages, and the sustainability and resilience of political-economic-social institutions. He served as visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and director of outreach and projects at Residential College 4 at the National University of Singapore. He was also professor emeritus of international development at the School of International Service at American University.

#8344

Michael A. Wulder

#185303

Overall Influence

#8345

Luk N. Van Wassenhove

#185318

Overall Influence

#8346

David A. Williams

#185327

Overall Influence

#8347

Leonard Mullins

Leonard Mullins

#104575

Overall Influence

1918 - 1997 (79 years)

Leonard Mullins was a scientist and long-time Research Director at the former Malaysian Rubber Producers' Research Association. He is known for his work on the stress-softening behavior of rubber, a phenomenon now known widely as the Mullins effect.

#8348

Emma Benn

#171523

Overall Influence

Emma Katherine Tara Benn is an American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference in health disparities as a way to help find targets for intervention against these disparities. She works at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Science, affiliated with the Center for Biostatistics. She is also associate dean of faculty well-being and development, and the founding director of the Center for Scientific Diversity at the Icahn School.

#8349

Sarah Abramowitz

#178385

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Sarah Knapp Abramowitz is an American statistician specializing in statistics education and known for her textbooks on the use of statistical software packages. She is the John H. Evans Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University, where she chairs the Mathematics & Computer Science Department.

#8350

Joseph Mugisha

#178519

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Joseph Y.T. Mugisha is a Ugandan mathematician , academician and academic administrator. Currently he is a Professor of Mathematics and Principal of the College of Natural Sciences, a constituent college of Makerere University. Makerere University is the Oldest University in Uganda.

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