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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8401

James Holt

#89395

Overall Influence

James Daniel Holt is a British scholar of Latter-day Saint religion and history and is Associate Professor of Religious Education at the University of Chester. Biography Holt served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission . During this time, his mission presidents were Joseph Fielding McConkie and Ian D. Swanney.

#8402

Anthony Joseph Penico

#184158

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Anthony "Tony" Joseph Penico was an American mathematician and engineer. He is known for the Penico theorem, Penico solvability, and Penico series. After graduating from South Philadelphia High School, Penico was awarded scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania. There he graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in physics and in 1950 with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His dissertation, written under the supervision of Richard D. Schafer, is entitled The Wedderburn Principal Theorem for Jordan Algebras. The theorem, which generalizes a theorem of A. A. Albert, was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1951.

#8403

Dai Roberts

#90654

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Dai Roberts is a British sculptor, print and installation artist. He taught at Coventry University, and was teaching at Richmond University in 2011. Further reading The Marmite Painting PrizeBraziers International Artists WorkshopRojaraku Spatial Art LaboratoryNoon Day Demons

#8404

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

#85798

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Robert Lucas Chambers is an American sculptor from Miami, Florida. His most recent public artwork is the South Miami Dade Art and Cultural Center. 'Light Field' and 'Adze' and 'Celt'. Background and education He received a BFA from University of Miami in 1983 and an MA from New York University in 1990. He returned later to teach at University of Miami and New York University. and is married to Danish-born painter Mette Tommerup.

#8405

Francis R. Jones

Francis R. Jones

#61788

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Dr Francis R. Jones is a poetry translator and Reader in Translation Studies at Newcastle University. He is currently Head of the Translating and Interpreting Section of the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle. He works largely from Dutch and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, though also from German, Hungarian, Russian, and Caribbean creoles.

#8406

Konstantin Malkov

#179525

Overall Influence

Konstantin Malkov is an American mathematician and businessman, Chief Technology Officer and Director of AI1 Technologies. Previously at 5nine Software, an Acronis Company . His works are in the area of mathematical modelling; non-linear differential equations, AI/ML, network security and mathematical methods in economics.

#8407

C. S. Kiang

#69460

Overall Influence

C.S. Kiang has served as Chairman of the Peking University Environment Fund and the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University between 2002 and 2006. His vision is to set up the basic infrastructure for the development of leadership in sustainable development, exploring the world impact of what China can do for the world in the 21st century.

#8408

Vladimir Buslaev

#176293

Overall Influence

1937 - 2012 (75 years)

Vladimir Savel'evich Buslaev was a Russian mathematical physicist. Education Buslajew received his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Leningrad under Olga Ladyzhenskaya with thesis Short-Wave Asymptotics of Diffraction Problems in Convex Domains. He was a professor at Saint Petersburg State University.

#8409

Otfrid Mittmann

#58431

Overall Influence

1908 - 1998 (90 years)

Otfrid Mittmann was a German mathematician. Starting in 1927, he studied mathematics and natural sciences in Göttingen and Leipzig, and got his Ph.D. in Apr 1935. He joined the Nazi movement in Oct 1929. and published on statistical aspects of Nazi eugenics. After the war, he published in Göttingen and Bonn.

#8410

Iwona Chmielewska

Iwona Chmielewska

#86531

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Iwona Chmielewska is a Polish author and illustrator, who publishes mainly for children but also for adults. Many of her works are published in South Korea where she has gained considerable popularity. She lives and works in Toruń in northern Poland where she teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

#8411

Louis Shapiro

#186736

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Louis Welles Shapiro is an American mathematician working in the fields of combinatorics and finite group theory. He is an emeritus professor at Howard University. Shapiro attended Harvard University for his undergraduate studies and then the University of Maryland, College Park for graduate school. Shapiro is most known for creating the Riordan array, named after mathematician John Riordan, and developing the theory around it. He has been an organizer of and speaker at the yearly International Conference on Riordan Arrays and Related Topics, which has been held annually beginning 2014.

#8412

Sammy Gravano

#901

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is an American former mobster who became underboss of the Gambino crime family. As the underboss, Gravano played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal in which he confessed to involvement in 19 murders.

#8413

Norman Sillman

#89474

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Norman Henry Sillman, ARCA, FRBS was a British sculptor and a coin designer, including the one pound coins for the Royal Mint. Early life Sillman was born in London in 1921. In 1924, the family moved to Pyramid Hill, Australia, where his father farmed. Due to severe drought they returned to England in 1934.

#8414

Oswald Leroy

#133219

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Oswald Jozef Leroy was a Belgian mathematician known for his contributions to theoretical acousto-optics. Leroy's biggest achievement was a theoretical study of the interaction of light with two adjacent ultrasonic beams under different conditions in terms of beam shape, frequency content and intensity. Understanding of this phenomenon was very important in the 1970s when new acousto-optic devices were developed that utilized adjacent ultrasonic beams. Such devices were being used in optical modulators, optical scanners, information processing , optical filtering and frequency-spectrum analysis.

#8415

Bruno N Rémillard

#182579

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Bruno N Rémillard is a Canadian mathematical statistician and an honorary professor at HEC Montréal. He is the 2019 Gold Medalist of the Statistical Society of Canada and was inducted as a 2019 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Rémillard was President of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2022-23.

#8416

Michèle Audin

#186812

Overall Influence

#8417

Judith O'Fallon

#119959

Overall Influence

Judith O'Fallon, née Judith Rich, is a retired American statistician. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1984, and is also a lifetime member of it. Education In 1973 she received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation was "Discriminant Analysis Under Truncation" and her advisor was N.L. Johnson.

#8418

Robert D. Hough

#185880

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability and discrete mathematics. He is an associate professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University. Early life and education Hough holds BS in Math, MS in CS and PhD in Math degrees from Stanford University. He completed his PhD under Kannan Soundararajan in 2012. Hough was a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom working with Ben Green from 2013 to 2015, and was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2...

#8419

Ming Fay

#78116

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Ming Fay is a Shanghai-born and New York City-based sculptor and professor. His work focuses on the concept of the garden as a symbol of utopia and the relationship between man and nature. Drawing upon an extensive knowledge of plants both Eastern and Western, real and mythical, Fay creates his own calligraphic floating forest of reeds, branches and surreal species. He is most well known for his sculpture and large scale installations and he currently teaches sculpture at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

#8420

Victor Lidskii

#185660

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

Victor Borisovich Lidskii was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who worked in spectral theory, operator theory, and shell theory. Lidskii discovered the Lidskii theorem in 1959. His adviser at Moscow State University was Israel Gelfand.

#8421

Luchezar L. Avramov

#186899

Overall Influence

#8422

Andrew McIntosh

#132943

Overall Influence

Andrew McIntosh Emeritus Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion theory at the University of Leeds. He is also the director of the organisation Truth in Science which promotes creationism and intelligent design.

#8423

Alexander Abercrombie

#177354

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

John Ralph Alexander Giles Abercrombie was a British pianist, composer, and mathematician. Biography Hailing from London, Abercrombie's parents were Nigel Abercrombie, Professor of French at Magdelen College and later a distinguished writer and civil servant and General Secretary of the Arts Council from 1963–68, and Elisabeth Abercrombie, an operatic soprano. Educated at Worth and the Royal College of Music, he gave his professional debut recital at the Purcell Room in London in 1972.

#8424

Vanesa Magar Brunner

#117958

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Vanesa Magar is a Franco-Mexican scientist who works at the Physical Oceanography Department, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Mexico, since 2014. She runs the Geophysical and Environmental Modelling Lab.

#8425

Andrew George Lehmann

#46681

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Andrew George Lehmann was a literary critic, academic, and seminal author and essayist in French Symbolism, and the intellectual history of European Romanticism. Early life Born in Chile to Mary Grisel Lehmann and Andrew William Lehmann, a mining engineer, Professor Lehmann was the younger brother of Olga Lehmann and Monica Pidgeon. His father was of German and French descent and his mother was Scottish. Naturalized a British citizen and educated at Dulwich College, London, and The Queen's College, Oxford, he demonstrated impressive intellectual and athletic capabilities, achieving the status of Junior Fencing Champion for England.

#8426

David Spence

#118532

Overall Influence

1926 - 2003 (77 years)

David Allan Spence was a mathematician who applied his mathematical skills in the aeronautics industry, and to the understanding of geophysical problems. He was born and educated in New Zealand, later moving to England, to take up a Doctorate in Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge. He was employed for a period of time at the then Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, after which he was appointed to the Engineering Department of the University of Oxford, where he stayed for twenty years. Later, he held the position of Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London.

#8427

Ronald D. Moore

Ronald D. Moore

#35140

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek, as well as on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award, and on Outlander, based on the novels of the same name by Diana Gabaldon. In 2019, he created and wrote the series For All Mankind for Apple TV+.

#8428

Mary Beth Landrum

#111021

Overall Influence

Mary Elizabeth Landrum is a British-American statistician specializing in biostatistics, examining health services and the quality of health care delivery. She is a professor in the Department of Health Care Policy of the Harvard Medical School.

#8429

Younghi Pagh-Paan

#104776

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Younghi Pagh-Paan is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld.

#8430

Margaret C. Wu

#172689

Overall Influence

Margaret C. Wu is a Chinese-American biostatistician who worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on topics including the analysis of clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and censored data.

#8431

Mimi Kim

#119195

Overall Influence

Mimi Y. Kim is the Harold and Muriel Block Chair in epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she heads the division of biostatistics. Kim graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in bioengineering in 1986, and completed an Sc.D. in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1990. She joined the New York University School of Medicine in 1990, becoming an assistant professor in 1994 and an associate professor in 2000. She moved to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003. She was given the Block Professorship in...

#8432

Paula Diehr

#170976

Overall Influence

Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data, health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis, and prediction of healthy life expectancies. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics, with a joint appointment in health systems and population health, at the University of Washington.

#8433

Olga Pendleton

#95767

Overall Influence

Olga J. Pendleton is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council. She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.

#8434

Giuseppe Spagnulo

#64203

Overall Influence

1936 - 2016 (80 years)

Giuseppe Spagnulo was an Italian sculptor. Spagnulo was born in Grottaglie, Taranto. At young age he learned to work on the lathe in his father's ceramic workshop. Between 1952 and 1958 he studied at the Faenza Art Institute for Ceramics and then he moved to Milan, where he enrolled at the Brera Academy and worked as an assistant for Arnaldo Pomodoro and Lucio Fontana.

#8435

Samir Kafity

#40400

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Samir Hanna Kaffity was a Palestinian Anglican bishop. Biography He was educated at the American University of Beirut and ordained in 1959. He was parish priest to the Palestinian congregation at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem and then held further incumbencies at St Andrew's Ramallah, St Peter's, Bir Zeit, then All Saints, Beirut. From 1977 he was a Lecturer at Birzeit University and then Archdeacon of Jerusalem. In 1982 he became Coadjutor Bishop of Jerusalem and two years later the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. Between 1984 and 1997, Kaffity was the second Palestinian Arab bishop. He s...

#8436

Sirindhorn

#26282

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand, the Princess Royal and the Princess Debaratana Rajasuda , formerly Princess Sirindhorn Debaratanasuda Kitivadhanadulsobhak , is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn. Thais commonly refer to her as "Phra Thep" , meaning "princess angel". Her title in Thai is the female equivalent of the title once held by her brother, King Maha Vajiralongkorn. The Thai constitution was altered in 1974 to allow for female succession, thus making her eligible for the throne. Having been the eldest female child of the royal fami...

#8437

James McCaw

#187100

Overall Influence

James M. McCaw is an Australian mathematical biologist. He is professor of Mathematical Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, where he is also Associate Dean .

#8438

Howard Elton Lacey

#187117

Overall Influence

1937 - 2013 (76 years)

Howard Elton Lacey was an American mathematician who studied analysis. Lacey graduated from Texas A&M University and Abilene Christian University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960. He graduated from New Mexico State University with Edward Thorp for his PhD and was then assistant professor at Abilene Christian University. From 1964 he was a professor at the University of Texas. In 1980 he became a professor at Texas A&M University, where he chaired the mathematics department for eleven years. He was Associate Dean of Science for one year and retired...

#8439

Jana Asher

#154801

Overall Influence

Jana Lynn Asher is a statistician known for her work on human rights and sexual violence. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Slippery Rock University. She was a co-editor of the book Statistical Methods for Human Rights with David L. Banks and Fritz Scheuren.

#8440

Elaine Martin

#120520

Overall Influence

Elaine Barbara Martin OBE FREng FIChemE CEng is a chemical engineer and statistician and Head of School at the University of Leeds. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Royal Statistical Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.

#8441

Alan West Brewer

#51066

Overall Influence

1915 - 2007 (92 years)

Alan West Brewer was a Britanno-Canadian physicist and climatologist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and raised in Derby, England, he earned a scholarship to study physics at the University College London. He received his M.Sc. there, and began to work for the Met Office in 1937. During World War II, he researched contrails for the Royal Air Force, making the discovery that the stratosphere is much drier than had been presumed. Later this observation led to the development of Brewer-Dobson circulation. Brewer worked at the Subdepartment of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford from 1948 until 1962, when he became a professor at University of Toronto.

#8442

Amer Iqbal

#187238

Overall Influence

#8443

Nancy D. Griffeth

Nancy D. Griffeth

#171227

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Nancy Davis Griffeth is an American computer scientist notable for approaches to the feature interaction problem. In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology.

#8444

David Dolidze

#183059

Overall Influence

1908 - Present (117 years)

David Egorovich Dolidze was a Georgian and Soviet mathematician, known from his work in the mathematical theory of fluid motion. In particular he rediscovered an important uniqueness theorem for the classical solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid, previously proved by Emanuele Foà.

#8445

Kristofer Leirdal

Kristofer Leirdal

#84971

Overall Influence

1915 - 2010 (95 years)

Kristofer Leirdal was a Norwegian sculptor and art educator. He was especially noted for his sculptural contributions to the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral. Biography Leirdal was born in Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Sakarias Skogan and Karen Leirdal .

#8446

Bronwyn Harch

#147427

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Bronwyn Harch is an Australian data scientist. Early life and education Harch comes from a farming family in the rural Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane. Career She has worked with initiatives with government and industry, predominantly in the environmental and agricultural sectors. These large-scale projects combined statistical expertise with the expertise of scientists from other parts of CSIRO as well as universities, government and industry. The projects were initiated to address environmental issues, for example monitoring the ecological health of waterways in one of Australia's most populous regions, south-east Queensland.

#8447

Stephen Mitchell Samuels

#173204

Overall Influence

1938 - 2012 (74 years)

Stephen Mitchell Samuels was a statistician and mathematician, known for his work on the secretary problem and for the Samuels Conjecture involving a Chebyshev-type inequality for sums of independent, non-negative random variables.

#8448

Richard E. Pattis

#17281

Overall Influence

Richard Eric Pattis is an American professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he taught introductory programming and data structures.

#8449

Udai Bhan Tewari

#186361

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Udai Bhan Tewari was an Indian mathematician, Emeritus Professor at IITK. His research work included contribution in the field of group algebra and measure algebra of locally compact group. He was awarded the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for his contribution to mathematics.

#8450

Yuri Luchko

#186179

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Yuri Luchko is a German professor of mathematics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology. His 90 works were peer-reviewed and appeared in such journals as the Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, among others.

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