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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#1301

Laure Saint-Raymond

Laure Saint-Raymond

#20141

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Laure Saint-Raymond is a French mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques . She was previously a professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She is known for her work in partial differential equations, and in particular for her contributions to the mathematically rigorous study of the connections between interacting particle systems, the Boltzmann equation, and fluid mechanics. In 2008 she was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize, with her citation reading:

#1302

R. M. Wilson

#20444

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Richard Michael Wilson is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. Wilson and his PhD supervisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968. Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics, as well as on historical flutes.

#1303

Richard Lashof

#26108

Overall Influence

1922 - 2010 (88 years)

Richard K. Lashof was an American mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Lashof is regarded as "the key figure in sustaining the Chicago Mathematics Department as an international center for research and the training of topologists" by Melvin Rothenberg.

#1304

Brian Conrey

#24605

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

John Brian Conrey is an American mathematician and the executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics. His research interests are in number theory, specifically analysis of L-functions and the Riemann zeta function.

#1305

Martin David Kruskal

Martin David Kruskal

#13593

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His most celebrated contribution was in the theory of solitons.

#1306

Avraham Trahtman

Avraham Trahtman

#17573

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Avraham Naumovich Trahtman is a mathematician at Bar-Ilan University . In 2007, Trahtman solved a problem in combinatorics that had been open for 37 years, the Road Coloring Conjecture posed in 1970.

#1307

Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson

#21708

Overall Influence

1906 - 1992 (86 years)

Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, MBE was a Canadian mathematician most famous for his work on combinatorics and representation theory of the symmetric groups, including the Robinson-Schensted algorithm.

#1308

Dennis Gaitsgory

Dennis Gaitsgory

#24037

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University known for his research on the geometric Langlands program. Born in Chișinău, now in Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein . He received his doctorate in 1997 for a thesis entitled "Automorphic Sheaves and Eisenstein Series". He has been awarded a Harvard Junior Fellowship, a Clay Research Fellowship, and the prize of the European Mathematical Society for his work.

#1309

Joel Spruck

#28285

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Joel Spruck is a mathematician, J. J. Sylvester Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, whose research concerns geometric analysis and elliptic partial differential equations. He obtained his PhD from Stanford University with the supervision of Robert S. Finn in 1971.

#1310

Carsten Thomassen

#17789

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Carsten Thomassen is a Danish mathematician. He has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark since 1981, and since 1990 a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. His research concerns discrete mathematics and more specifically graph theory.

#1311

Jean-Michel Coron

Jean-Michel Coron

#24064

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jean-Michel Coron is a French mathematician. He first studied at École Polytechnique, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by Haïm Brezis. Since 1992, he has studied the control theory of partial differential equations, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern partial differential equations related to fluid dynamics, with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena, and part of them found applications to control channels.

#1312

Jun-iti Nagata

#30611

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

was a Japanese mathematician specializing in topology. In 1956, Jun-iti Nagata earned his PhD from Osaka University under the direction of Kiiti Morita. He was the author of two standard graduate texts in topology: Modern Dimension Theory and Modern General Topology. His name is attached to the Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem, which was proved independently by Nagata in 1950 and by Smirnov in 1951, as well as the Assouad–Nagata dimension of a metric space, which he introduced in a 1958 article.

#1313

Klaus Wagner

#27844

Overall Influence

1910 - 2000 (90 years)

Klaus Wagner was a German mathematician known for his contributions to graph theory. Education and career Wagner studied topology at the University of Cologne under the supervision of who had been a student of Issai Schur. Wagner received his Ph.D. in 1937, with a dissertation concerning the Jordan curve theorem and four color theorem, and taught at Cologne for many years himself. In 1970, he moved to the University of Duisburg, where he remained until his retirement in 1978.

#1314

Kenneth Falconer

#19630

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Kenneth John Falconer FRSE is a British mathematician working in mathematical analysis and in particular on fractal geometry. He is Regius Professor of Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews.

#1315

Celso Costa

#26871

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Celso José da Costa is a Brazilian mathematician working in differential geometry. His research activity has focused in the construction and classification of minimal surfaces embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. He is best known for his discovery of Costa's minimal surface, which was described in 1982.

#1316

Tadashi Tokieda

#20495

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Tadashi Tokieda is a Japanese mathematician, working in mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University; previously he was a fellow and Director of Studies of Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys that uniquely reveal and explore real-world surprises of mathematics and physics. In comparison with most mathematicians, he had an unusual path in life: he started as a painter, and then became a classical philologist, before switching to mathematics.

#1317

Antti Kupiainen

#23997

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Antti Kupiainen is a Finnish mathematical physicist. Education and career Kupiainen completed his undergraduate education in 1976 at the Technical University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Princeton University under Thomas C. Spencer with thesis Some rigorous results on the 1/n expansion. As a postdoc he spent the academic year 1979/80 at Harvard University and then did research at the University of Helsinki. He became a professor of mathematics in 1989 at Rutgers University and in 1991 at the University of Helsinki.

#1318

Victor W. Marek

#24479

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Victor Witold Marek, formerly Wiktor Witold Marek known as Witek Marek is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. Biography Victor Witold Marek studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Warsaw. Supervised by Andrzej Mostowski, he received both a magister degree in mathematics in 1964 and a doctoral degree in mathematics in 1968. He completed habilitation in mathematics in 1972.

#1319

Charles Earl Rickart

#30933

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

Charles Earl Rickart was an American mathematician, known for Rickart spaces. Rickart was born in Osage City, Kansas, and earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas. In 1941, he received his PhD from the University of Michigan under Theophil Henry Hildebrandt with the thesis Integration in a Convex Linear Topological Space. Rickart was for two years the Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University. He joined the Yale mathematics faculty in 1943, served as chair of the department from 1959 to 1965, became the first Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics in 1963, and retired i...

#1320

Bruce Sagan

#23771

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Bruce E. Sagan is an American Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University. He specializes in enumerative, algebraic, and topological combinatorics. He is also known as a musician, playing music from Scandinavia and the Balkans.

#1321

Dale Husemoller

Dale Husemoller

#28123

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Dale Husemöller is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology and homological algebra who is known for his books on fibre bundles, elliptic curves, and, in collaboration with John Milnor, symmetric bilinear forms.

#1322

Mikhail Katz

#21937

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Mikhail "Mischa" Gershevich Katz is an Israeli mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His main interests are differential geometry, geometric topology and mathematics education; he is the author of the book Systolic Geometry and Topology, which is mainly about systolic geometry. The Katz–Sabourau inequality is named after him and Stéphane Sabourau.

#1323

Robert Alexander Rankin

#20943

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Robert Alexander Rankin FRSE FRSAMD was a Scottish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Life Rankin was born in Garlieston in Wigtownshire the son of Rev Oliver Rankin , minister of Sorbie and his wife, Olivia Theresa Shaw. His father took the name Oliver Shaw Rankin on marriage and became Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology in the University of Edinburgh.

#1324

Erhard Heinz

#28099

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

Erhard Heinz was a German mathematician known for his work on partial differential equations, in particular the Monge–Ampère equation. He worked as professor in Stanford, Munich and from 1966 until his retirement 1992 at the University of Göttingen.

#1325

Burkard Polster

#9821

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Burkard Polster is a German mathematician who runs and presents the Mathologer channel on YouTube. He is a professor of mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Education and career Polster earned a doctorate from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1993 under the supervision of Karl Strambach. Other universities that Polster has been affiliated with, before joining Monash University in 2000, include the University of Würzburg, University at Albany, University of Kiel, University of California, Berkeley, University of Canterbury, and University of Adelaide.

#1326

Pierre Schapira

#21791

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Pierre Schapira is a French mathematician. He specializes in algebraic analysis, especially Mikio Sato's microlocal analysis, together with the mathematical concepts of sheaves and derived categories.

#1327

Carl-Gustav Esseen

#25978

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Carl-Gustav Esseen was a Swedish mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Life Carl-Gustav Esseen attended school in Linköping. Starting in 1936, he studied mathematics, astronomy, physics and chemistry at the University of Uppsala. Inspired by the harmonic-analytic research of Harald Cramér and Arne Beurling, Esseen examined the accuracy of the approximation to the normal distribution in the central limit theorem in the case of independent and identically distributed summandss. Esseen's bound is now called "the Berry-Esseen theorem", because it was independently proved by Andrew C.

#1328

Peter Thullen

#20487

Overall Influence

1907 - 1996 (89 years)

Peter Thullen was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician. Academic career He studied under Heinrich Behnke at the University of Münster and received his doctoral degree in 1931 at the age of 23. He is noted for work on several complex variables. One of his achievements is a classification of 2-dimensional bounded Reinhardt domains. He obtained a subsequent research fellowship with Professor Francesco Severi in Rome to explore how algebraic geometry could be integrated into the theory of functions of several complex variables.

#1329

Ernest S. Croot III

Ernest S. Croot III

#22987

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Ernest S. Croot III is a mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his solution of the Erdős–Graham conjecture, and for contributing to the solution of the cap set problem.

#1330

M. Salah Baouendi

#21695

Overall Influence

1937 - 2011 (74 years)

Mohammed Salah Baouendi was a Tunisian-American mathematician who worked as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. His research concerned partial differential equations and the theory of several complex variables.

#1331

Zoia Ceaușescu

#12679

Overall Influence

1949 - 2006 (57 years)

Zoia Ceaușescu was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia . Biography Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr. 24 in Bucharest and graduated in 1966. She then continued her studies at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. She received her Ph.D. in 1977 with thesis On Intertwining Dilations written under the direction of Ciprian Foias. Ceaușescu then worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. Her field of specialization was functional analysis.

#1332

Andrzej Schinzel

Andrzej Schinzel

#21525

Overall Influence

1937 - 2021 (84 years)

Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel was a Polish mathematician studying mainly number theory. Education Schinzel received an MSc in 1958 at Warsaw University, Ph.D. in 1960 from Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences where he studied under Wacław Sierpiński, with a habilitation in 1962. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

#1333

Eugene Odum

#3090

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

Eugene Pleasants Odum was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology . The Odum School of Ecology is named in his honor.

#1334

Søren Johansen

#10716

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Søren Johansen is a Danish statistician and econometrician who is known for his contributions to the theory of cointegration. He is currently a professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and in the Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series of the Aarhus University. He has previously held positions at the Department of Statistics, University of Copenhagen, and the European University Institute in Florence.

#1335

David Preiss

#18656

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

David Preiss FRS is a Czech and British mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick Preiss is a recipient of the Ostrowski Prize and the winner of the 2008 London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space. He was an invited speaker at the ICM 1990 in Kyoto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic .

#1336

Roger Maddux

#16811

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Roger Maddux is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic logic. He completed his B.A. at Pomona College in 1969, and his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, where he was one of Alfred Tarski's last students. His career has been at Iowa State University, where he fills a joint appointment in computer science and mathematics.

#1337

Nancy Kopell

#15201

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Nancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology . She organized and directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative . Kopell received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1963 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1967. She held visiting positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France , MIT , and the California Institute of Technology .

#1338

Murray R. Spiegel

#22846

Overall Influence

1923 - 1991 (68 years)

Murray Ralph Spiegel was an author of textbooks on mathematics, including titles in a collection of Schaum's Outlines. Spiegel was a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New Utrecht High School. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Brooklyn College in 1943. He earned a master's degree in 1947 and doctorate in 1949, both in mathematics and both at Cornell University. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard University in 1943–1945, a consultant with Monsanto Chemical Company in the summer of 1946, and a teaching fellow at Cornell University from 1946 to 1949. He was a c...

#1339

Georges Matheron

Georges Matheron

#17349

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Georges François Paul Marie Matheron was a French mathematician and civil engineer of mines, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder of mathematical morphology. In 1968, he created the Centre de Géostatistique et de Morphologie Mathématique at the Paris School of Mines in Fontainebleau. He is known for his contributions on Kriging and mathematical morphology. His seminal work is posted for study and review to the Online Library of the Centre de Géostatistique, Fontainebleau, France.

#1340

Jennifer Tour Chayes

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#12510

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012.

#1341

Ezra Getzler

#25210

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Ezra Getzler is an Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist. Education and career Getzler studied from 1979 to 1982 at the Australian National University in Canberra . In 1982 he moved to Harvard University with a Fulbright Scholarship; he received his PhD in 1986 under Arthur Jaffe, with a thesis entitled Degree theory for Wiener maps and supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

#1342

Arthur Burks

#3221

Overall Influence

1915 - 2008 (93 years)

Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff. Burks was also for several decades a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

#1343

Rubí Rodríguez

#27083

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Rubí Elena Rodríguez Moreno is a Chilean mathematician in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of La Frontera, a founder of the Iberoamerican Congress on Geometry, and the former president of the Chilean Mathematical Society. Her research specialties include complex geometry, Fuchsian groups, Riemann surfaces, and abelian varieties.

#1344

Chi-Wang Shu

#32081

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Chi-Wang Shu is the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his research in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, numerical solutions of conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi type equations. Shu has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.

#1345

Daniel Kane

#17109

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Daniel Mertz Kane is an American mathematician. He is an associate professor with a joint position in the Mathematics Department and the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego.

#1346

Wolfgang Smith

#4748

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Wolfgang Smith is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, Roman Catholic and member of the Traditionalist School. He has written extensively in the field of differential geometry, as a critic of scientism and as a proponent of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that draws heavily from premodern ontology and realism.

#1347

Chuu-Lian Terng

Chuu-Lian Terng

#28057

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Chuu-Lian Terng is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. Her research areas are differential geometry and integrable systems, with particular interests in completely integrable Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their relations to differential geometry, the geometry and topology of submanifolds in symmetric spaces, and the geometry of isometric actions.

#1348

Morihiko Saito

#29167

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Morihiko Saitō is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in algebraic analysis and algebraic geometry. Education and career After graduating from Aiko High School in Matsuyama, Saito completed undergraduate study in mathematics at the University of Tokyo and in 1979 completed the master's program there. In 1986 he received his D.Sc. from Kyoto University. After working as a research assistant at Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, he was appointed there an associate professor.

#1349

Koichiro Harada

#28113

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

is a Japanese mathematician working on finite group theory. Early life and education The Institute for Advanced Study was Harada's first position in the United States in 1968. He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1972.

#1350

Eli Maor

#24654

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Eli Maor , an historian of mathematics, is the author of several books about the history of mathematics. Eli Maor received his PhD at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. Maor was the editor of the article on trigonometry for the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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