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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#8651

Erhard Scheibe

#115074

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Erhard Scheibe was a German philosopher of science. His works discuss the philosophy of physics and the interpretations of quantum mechanics. He was professor at the University of Heidelberg. Bibliography The logical analysis of quantum mechanics, Pergamon, New York, 1973. The reduction of physical theories, vol 1. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland 2022.

#8652

Daniel Lewin

#171717

Overall Influence

1970 - 2001 (31 years)

Daniel Mark Lewin was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded internet company Akamai Technologies. A passenger on board American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed that Lewin was stabbed to death by Satam al-Suqami, one of the hijackers of that flight, and was the first victim of the September 11 attacks.

#8653

Arthur L. Carter

#13741

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Arthur L. Carter is an American investment banker, publisher, and artist. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Carter graduated from Brown University in 1953 with a degree in French literature. He served in the Coast Guard from 1953 to 1956 He worked for Lehman Brothers for a period of time, but after taking a break to study at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, he started Carter, Berlind, & Weill in 1960, which eventually grew into Shearson Loeb Rhoades, later merging with Lehman to form Shearson Lehman Brothers.

#8654

Carol Kreeger Davidson

#173080

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Carol Kreeger Davidson was an American sculptor known for her Postminimalist style and technique of bending, folding, and bolting material rather than welding. Life Carol Kreeger was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago before transferring her credits to Northwestern University where she graduated with a B.A. in literature. She moved to Hartford, Connecticut after marrying Donald Davidson. In 1959 she broke her back in a horse back riding accident. While in the hospital for nearly a year, friends brought her art books as entertainment. The books inspired her to study art and she began to study sculpture privately with Wolfgang Behl before completing her B.F.A.

#8655

Anne Arnold

#167797

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Anne Arnold, was a sculptor best known for her whimsical life-size and sometimes larger than life-size sculptures of animals and people rendered in wood, ceramic, or softer materials such as canvas and Dynel, and resins.

#8656

Akram Al-Ashqar

#185954

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Akram Al-Ashqar is a Palestinian film director global, photographer and IT professional. He was born in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. He started with the movies Akram graduated from Arab American University in 2006 specializing in Computer Information Technology.

#8657

Mikhail Anisimov

Mikhail Anisimov

#60810

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Mikhail Alexeevich Anisimov is a Russian and American interdisciplinary scientist. Early life Anisimov received a degree in petroleum engineering from Grozny Petroleum Institute in 1964, a doctorate in physical chemistry from Moscow State University in 1969, and a doctor of science degree in molecular and thermal physics from the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1976.

#8658

Bob Layton

#53210

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Bob Layton is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics titles such as Iron Man and Hercules, and for co-founding Valiant Comics with Jim Shooter.

#8659

Tõnu Möls

#174640

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Tõnu Möls was an Estonian mathematician and biologist. In 1965 he described the moth Epirrhoe tartuensis. From 1994 until 2004, he was the president of Estonian Naturalists' Society. In 2001, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.

#8660

Scott Litt

#35305

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Scott Warren Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s during the band's most successful period.

#8661

Mousumi Banerjee

#187946

Overall Influence

Mousumi Banerjee is an Indian-American statistician and singer. She is the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Research Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy at the University of Michigan. Banerjee is also the executive director of the nonprofit art foundation Tagore Beyond Boundaries.

#8662

Kevin M. Short

#190538

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Kevin M. Short is an American mathematician and entrepreneur. He is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of New Hampshire. He is also co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Setem Technologies, in Newbury, Massachusetts. Since 1994, when he began at UNH, Short's academic research and work has continually focused on tying together nonlinear chaos theory and signal processing so that nonlinearity can play a major role in the future of technology development.

#8663

Menachem Banitt

Menachem Banitt

#99028

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

Menachem Banitt , was a Belgian–Israeli scholar of medieval French culture and language and an internationally acclaimed expert on Rashi. Banitt was particularly known for his analysis of Rashi's occasional translation of words and phrases from Hebrew or Aramaic into Old French, written phonetically in Hebrew letters.

#8664

Benjamin Victor

#63558

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Benjamin Matthew Victor is an American sculptor living and working in Boise, Idaho. He is the only living artist to have three works in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. He is currently sculpting his fourth statue for the Statuary Hall, of Daisy Bates. He was only 26 years old when his first statue, Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute activist in Nevada, was dedicated in the Hall in 2005, making him the youngest artist to ever be represented in the Hall. In 2014, his sculpture of Norman Borlaug, "the father of the Green Revolution," was dedicated in the National Statuary Hall ...

#8665

Daniel Tobin

#101624

Overall Influence

1997 - Present (28 years)

Daniel Tobin is an American poet, scholar, editor, and essayist. Life Daniel Tobin was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York to Gerard Tobin and Helen Ruane Tobin. Both parents were of Irish ancestry, and his upbringing in Brooklyn and his ancestral links to Ireland inform his poetry, scholarship, and teaching.

#8666

Rashna Bhandari

#104066

Overall Influence

Rashna Bhandari is Head, Laboratory of Cell Signalling at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. Bhandari is pursuing her study on signal transduction in biological systems, with particular emphasis on understanding the role of inositol pyrophosphates in physiology and metabolism.

#8667

Abduhamid Juraev

#191125

Overall Influence

1932 - 2005 (73 years)

Abduhamid Juraev Isfara, Tajikistan was a Tajik mathematician. He published many articles and books. External links Books by Abduhamid Juraev

#8668

Palle Nielsen

#105536

Overall Influence

1920 - 2000 (80 years)

Palle Louis Nielsen was a Danish illustrator and graphic artist. Considered to be one of the masters of his times, his works include drawings, watercolours, woodcuts and linocuts. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Nielsen was brought up in the harbour area of the old town. Nielsen attended Kunsthåndværkerskolen from 1937 to 1939. Thereafter he studied privately under Aksel Jørgensen before entering the painting school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . In 1946, he married the graphic artist Elsa Nielsen.

#8669

Peter Lorimer

#191126

Overall Influence

1939 - 2010 (71 years)

Peter James Lorimer was a New Zealand mathematician. His research concerned group theory, combinatorics, and Ramsey theory. Academic career Born in Christchurch, Lorimer did a BSc / MSc in mathematics at the University of Auckland and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a PhD at McGill University in Montreal, which he completed in 1963 under the supervision of Hans Schwerdtfeger. He returned to New Zealand to lecture, first at University of Canterbury and then at University of Auckland.

#8670

Alan Fennell

#170348

Overall Influence

1936 - 2001 (65 years)

Alan Leslie Fennell was a British writer and editor best known for work on series produced by Gerry Anderson, and for having created the magazines TV Century 21 and Look-in. Fennell wrote episodes of Fireball XL5 and Stingray and more than ten episodes of Thunderbirds including "30 Minutes After Noon". He also wrote for many comic strip adaptations and was the first editor of TV Century 21. Between himself and Dennis Spooner they wrote 36 episodes of Stingray. He also wrote a number of books, including a novelisation of the film Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World and two original novels bas...

#8671

Josh Weinstein

#55193

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Josh Weinstein is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans School; Weinstein then attended Stanford University and was editor-in-chief of the Stanford Chaparral. He worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for a long period.

#8672

Jaroslav Vacek

#68389

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Jaroslav Vacek was director of the Institute of South and Central Asia and former dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague, where he founded the teaching and research of Mongolian as a new subject. He was a member of the Czech Oriental Society, the Prague Linguistic Circle, and The Learned Society. He translated the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit into Czech. Vacek was interested mainly in linguistic problems on the Indian linguistic area and the Dravidian and Altaic relationships, where he applied new research approach. He also spoke fluent Tamil and was an authority...

#8673

Carl Kurlander

#114715

Overall Influence

Carl Kurlander is an American screenwriter, producer and documentary filmmaker. He was born in Chicago and grew up in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and attended Shady Side Academy and Duke University. Kurlander is best known for his extensive work on American teen sitcoms and has served as producer with Peter Engel on a number of programmes including Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Hang Time, USA High and Malibu, CA and as a screenwriter who co-wrote the semi-autobiographical hit St. Elmo's Fire. He has also produced several award-winning documentaries, including My Tale of Two Cities, A Shot Felt 'Round The World.

#8674

Stephen Covey

#125012

Overall Influence

1932 - 2012 (80 years)

Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, , and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the time of his death.

#8675

Peter Jonas

#33500

Overall Influence

1946 - 2020 (74 years)

Sir John Peter Jonas was a British arts administrator and opera company director. Life and career Jonas was born in London, the son of Hilda , a fashion model, and Walter Jonas, who ran a dye works and a factory. His father was a German Jewish emigrant, from Hamburg, and his mother was of Jamaican and Lebanese descent. Jonas studied at Worth School, and took an English Literature degree at the University of Sussex. He later studied History of Music at Royal Northern College of Music Manchester, and the Royal College of Music London, with a final semester at Eastman School of Music, Universit...

#8676

William J. Perry

#173322

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (98 years)

William James Perry is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering .

#8677

Ranald Roderick Macdonald

#179636

Overall Influence

1945 - 2007 (62 years)

Ranald Roderick Macdonald was a British mathematician and psychologist. He was known for his contribution to the foundations of significance testing.

#8678

H. Wesley Kenney

#147395

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Harold Wesley Kenney, Jr. was an American television producer and director whose career extended from the medium's formative years in the early 1950s, into the 2000s, and included thousands of episodes, both primetime and daytime, as well as five Emmy wins and eight nominations. He was frequently billed as Wes Kenney.

#8679

Wayne Nelson

#184006

Overall Influence

For the American musician, see Wayne Nelson. Wayne Nelson is an American statistician. His main contributions to the reliability theory are the Nelson-Aalen Estimator for lifetime data, various statistical procedures for accelerated life testing and both: nonparametric and parametric procedures for recurrent data analysis.

#8680

Cheryl

#132490

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. Born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's Popstars: The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a solo career in April 2009, and between then and 2014, she released four studio albums – 3 Words , Messy Little Raindrops , A Million Lights and Only Human . Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – "Fight for This Love", "Promise This", "Call My Name", "Crazy Stupid Love" and "I Don't Care" – reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart.

#8681

Caroline Davis

#120585

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Caroline Davis is a British academic who specialises in the history of publishing culture, and government propaganda in Africa during the Cold War. She is currently an Associate Professor in Publishing at University College London.

#8682

James Tonascia

#177710

Overall Influence

James Tonascia is an American biostatistician. He is the Curtis L. Meinert Professor of Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He joined the faculty in 1970 and was promoted to full professor in 1981.

#8683

Peter Przygodda

Peter Przygodda

#95897

Overall Influence

1941 - 2011 (70 years)

Peter Przygodda was a German filmmaker, best known for editing Wim Wenders' films. Przygodda died of cancer, aged 69, in 2011. Filmography Director 1969: Der Besuch auf dem Lande 1972: Can1979: … als Diesel geboren1981–1985: Alle Geister kreisen… Todos os espiritos circulam

#8684

John Walter Guerrier Lund

#83210

Overall Influence

1912 - 2015 (103 years)

John Walter Guerrier Lund CBE FRS was an English phycologist. Early life and education Lund was born in 1912 and was educated at Sedbergh School. He studied for his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at the University of Manchester, before moving to the University of London in 1935. He was awarded his PhD in 1939 and his DSc in 1951. In 1949 he married Hilda Mabel Canter and they had two children together.

#8685

Sergey Shorgin

#101301

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Sergey Shorgin is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, a scientist in the field of informatics, a poet, a translator of poetry. Biography He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC . He defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences . He defended his thesis «Defining Insurance Tariffs: Stochastic Models and Methods of Evaluation» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences . Was awarded the title of professor . Published more than 100 scientific papers, including articles in leading scientific journals.

#8686

Harold Tovish

#78047

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Harold Tovish was an American sculptor who worked in bronze, wood, and synthetic media. He was famous for exacting standards, and even refused to complete many of the sculptures he began. Tovish focused on the human form as the primary vehicle for exploring metaphysical existence.

#8687

Barbara Bush

#156104

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Barbara Pierce Bush is an American activist. She co-founded and is the chair of the board of the nonprofit organization Global Health Corps. She and her fraternal twin sister, Jenna, are the daughters of the forty-third U.S. president, George W. Bush, and former first lady Laura Bush. She is also a granddaughter of former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, after whom she is named.

#8688

Hans Økland

#169885

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Hans Økland was a Norwegian meteorologist and geophysicist. He was born in Trondenes, finished his secondary education in Harstad in 1937 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1942. He worked as a secondary school teacher in Svolvær and Tromsø, as a meteorologist in the Forecasting Division of Northern Norway from 1946 to 1954 and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute from 1954 to 1970. After two years as a researcher at the Meteorological Institute he took his doctorate at the University of Oslo in 1972. In 1977 he was hired as a university lecturer in geophysics, being promoted to professor later.

#8689

Leslie Wagner

#31144

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Leslie Wagner, CBE is a British academic, who has been Vice-Chancellor of two universities and as the second Chancellor of the University of Derby. Wagner was educated at Salford Grammar School and obtained a BA and MA at Manchester University. He worked for the British government until 1970, when he became a lecturer in economics at the Open University. He was later Head of Economics at the Polytechnic of Central London, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of North London in 1987. From 1994 to 2003, he was Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University.

#8690

Arne Broman

#191379

Overall Influence

1913 - 1995 (82 years)

Arne E. Broman was a Swedish mathematician working on analysis. He received his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1947, with the thesis On two classes of trigonometrical series, and had Arne Beurling as thesis advisor. He worked as a high school teacher from 1938 to 1954, and from 1954 was an associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology.

#8691

Tan Chung

#100014

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Tan Chung is an authority on Chinese history, Sino-Indian relations and cultural exchange. He has been a doyen of Chinese cultural studies in India for nearly half a century. Early life After initial education in China came to Santiniketan in 1955. On completing his Ph D from Visva Bharati University, taught in NDA, Khadakvasla, then joined Delhi University as professor of Chinese and became head of the department of Chinese and Japanese studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His wife, Huang I-Shu, taught Chinese at Delhi University.

#8692

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

#191385

Overall Influence

#8693

Velina Hasu Houston

#151661

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Velina Hasu Houston is an American playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor and screenwriter who has had many works produced, presented and published. Her work draws from her experience of being multiracial as well as from the immigrant experiences of her family and those she encountered growing up in Junction City, Kansas.

#8694

Paul Jackson

#112230

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Kevin Paul Jackson , credited as Paul Jackson; sometimes as K. Paul Jackson, is an English television director, producer and executive, known for his production roles within the BBC, ITV, and previously, Carlton and Granada. His most famous television work includes The Two Ronnies and The Young Ones, and as the original producer for the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf. In 2006, Jackson was named Director of Comedy and Entertainment at ITV.

#8695

Brian Williams

#122489

Overall Influence

1956 - 2010 (54 years)

Brian John Williams was an illustrator. Career Williams was known for his work in various fantasy magazines and novels, including the later Lone Wolf gamebooks written by Joe Dever as well as the Real Life Adventure books by Jon Sutherland.

#8696

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (35 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#8697

Sayumi Michishige

Sayumi Michishige

#168353

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (36 years)

Sayumi Michishige is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She is a former sixth-generation member and former leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Following the departure of fifth-generation member Risa Niigaki on October 12, 2013, Michishige held the longest tenure of any member in the group's history even after her graduation. She went on to hold this record until surpassed by ninth-generation members Mizuki Fukumura and Erina Ikuta in December 2022.

#8698

Bill Smith

#186304

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

William Ernest Smith is a Canadian writer, editor, record producer, saxophonist, and clarinetist of English birth. He has served as the editor of CODA magazine since 1976, and is a co-founder of Sackville Records, a Canadian record label that specialized in jazz.

#8699

James C. Davenport

#116604

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

James Clinton Davenport is an American physicist and physics professor. He specializes in condensed matter physics and is known for his contributions to physics education. He is one of the founders of the National Society of Black Physicists .

#8700

Ruslan Smelyansky

#145978

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Ruslan Smelyansky is a Russian mathematician, Dr. Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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