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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#1351

Julian Cole

#13456

Overall Influence

1925 - 1999 (74 years)

Julian David Cole was an American mathematician. He is known for his groundbreaking work in mathematical applications to aerodynamics and transonic flow, and in non-linear equations more generally. He graduated 36 PhD students and won many of the most significant scientific honors over his career, including simultaneous election to the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

#1352

Sylvie Benzoni

#22700

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage is a French mathematician known for her research in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, traffic flow, shock waves, and phase transitions. In 2017 she was named as the director of the Institut Henri Poincaré.

#1353

Ruslan Stratonovich

#11582

Overall Influence

1930 - 1997 (67 years)

Ruslan Leont'evich Stratonovich was a Russian physicist, engineer, and probabilist and one of the founders of the theory of stochastic differential equations. Biography Ruslan Stratonovich was born on 31 May 1930 in Moscow. He studied from 1947 at the Moscow State University, specializing in there under P. I. Kuznetsov on radio physics . In 1953 he graduated and came into contact with the mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. In 1956 he received his doctorate on the application of the theory of correlated random points to the calculation of electronic noise. In 1969 he became professor of physics ...

#1354

Mike Alder

#7276

Overall Influence

Michael D. Alder is an Australian mathematician, formerly an assistant professor at the University of Western Australia. Alder is known for his popular writing, such as sardonic articles about the lack of basic arithmetic skills in young adults.

#1355

Chung Kai-lai

#24919

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Kai Lai Chung was a Chinese-American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Biography Chung was a native of Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province. Chung entered Tsinghua University in 1936, and initially studied physics at its Department of Physics. In 1940, Chung graduated from the Department of Mathematics of the National Southwestern Associated University, where he later worked as a teaching assistant. During this period, he first studied number theory with Lo-Keng Hua and then probability theory with Pao-Lu Hsu.

#1356

Ruth J. Williams

#24850

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Ruth Jeannette Williams is an Australian-born American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego where she holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Her research concerns probability theory and stochastic processes.

#1357

Peter Winkler

#24344

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation. His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics and computer science at Dartmouth College.

#1358

Jill Pipher

#24329

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Jill Catherine Pipher was the president of the American Mathematical Society. She began a two-year term in 2019. She is also the past-president of the Association for Women in Mathematics , and she was the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics , an NSF-funded mathematics institute based in Providence, Rhode Island.

#1359

Roy Adler

#25051

Overall Influence

1931 - 2016 (85 years)

Roy Lee Adler was an American mathematician. Adler earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from Yale University under the supervision of Shizuo Kakutani . He then worked as a mathematician for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

#1360

James Franklin

#6424

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

James Franklin is an Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas. Life and career Franklin was educated at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, New South Wales. His undergraduate work was at the University of Sydney , where he attended St John's College and he was influenced by philosophers David Stove and David Armstrong. He completed his PhD in 1981 at the University of Warwick, on algebraic groups. Since 1981 he has taught in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales.

#1361

Kaisa Matomäki

#24965

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Kaisa Sofia Matomäki is a Finnish mathematician specializing in number theory. Since September 2015, she has been working as an Academic Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Her research includes results on the distribution of multiplicative functions over short intervals of numbers; for instance, she showed that the values of the Möbius function are evenly divided between +1 and −1 over short intervals. These results, in turn, were among the tools used by Terence Tao to prove the Erdős discrepancy problem.

#1362

Egon Balas

#18173

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Egon Balas was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming.

#1363

Kevin Costello

#26662

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Kevin Joseph Costello FRS is an Irish mathematician, since 2014 the Krembil Foundation's William Rowan Hamilton chair of theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Education Costello was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 2003 for research on Gromov–Witten invariants supervised by Ian Grojnowski.

#1364

Joel E. Cohen

#8515

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Joel Ephraim Cohen NAS AAA&S APS CFR AAAS is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, and the School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

#1365

Sylvia Serfaty

#22930

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Sylvia Serfaty is a French mathematician working in the United States. She won the 2004 EMS Prize for her contributions to the Ginzburg–Landau theory, the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and the of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013.

#1366

Françoise Tisseur

#23332

Overall Influence

Françoise Tisseur is a numerical analyst and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK. She works in numerical linear algebra and in particular on nonlinear eigenvalue problemss and structured matrix problems, including the development of algorithms and software.

#1367

Geoffrey Colin Shephard

#21824

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Geoffrey Colin Shephard is a mathematician who works on convex geometry and reflection groups. He asked Shephard's problem on the volumes of projected convex bodies, posed another problem on polyhedral nets, proved the Shephard–Todd theorem in invariant theory of finite groups, began the study of complex polytopes, and classified the complex reflection groups.

#1368

J. Tinsley Oden

#12384

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

John Tinsley Oden was an American engineer. He was the Associate Vice President for Research, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Computing Systems, a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, a Professor of Mathematics, and a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Oden has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.

#1369

Kevin Ford

#28932

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Kevin B. Ford is an American mathematician working in analytic number theory. Education and career He has been a professor in the department of mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2001. Prior to this appointment, he was a faculty member at the University of South Carolina.

#1370

Jorge Urrutia Galicia

Jorge Urrutia Galicia

#27418

Overall Influence

Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican mathematician and computer scientist in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . His research primarily concerns discrete and computational geometry.

#1371

Susan Tolman

#27271

Overall Influence

Susan Tolman is an American mathematician known for her work in symplectic geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at Illinois.

#1372

Ann Hibner Koblitz

#8047

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Ann Hibner Koblitz is a Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University known for her studies of the history of women in science. She is the Director of the Kovalevskaia Fund, which supports women in science in developing countries.

#1373

Gerrit Lekkerkerker

Gerrit Lekkerkerker

#24926

Overall Influence

1922 - 1999 (77 years)

Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker was a Dutch mathematician. Education and career Lekkerkerker studied mathematics at Utrecht University during the periods 1940-1943 and 1945-1949 under Jurjen Koksma and Jan Popken. After completing his studies in 1949, he started work at the Amsterdam Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica , where he worked under Koksma in the pure mathematics division. In the academic year 1953-1954, he studied in Rome. In 1955 he received his doctorate under the guidance of Popken with the thesis On the Zeros of a Class of Dirichlet-Series; in Dutch: Over de nulpunten in een klasse van...

#1374

Martin Bridson

#25337

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Martin Robert Bridson is a Manx mathematician. He is Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He was previously the head of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. He is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in geometric group theory.

#1375

George C. Papanicolaou

George C. Papanicolaou

#21846

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

[[File:|thumb|George C. Papanicolaou]] George C. Papanicolaou is a Greek-American mathematician who specializes in applied and computational mathematics, partial differential equations, and stochastic processes. He is currently the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics at Stanford University.

#1376

Boris Levit

#23414

Overall Influence

Boris Ya. Levit is a professor of statistics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Career Levit obtained his M.Sc. in mathematics from Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in statistics from Russian Academy of Science in 1975 . While at Moscow State University, he was influenced by many famous mathematicians of the era, including Andrei Kolmogorov.

#1377

Irina Grekova

#22092

Overall Influence

1907 - 2002 (95 years)

Elena Sergeevna Ventsel , known by the pen name Irina Grekova , was a Soviet writer and mathematician. She held a Ph.D. in mathematics, and wrote several influential textbooks on probability theory, game theory, and operations research.

#1378

Edward Burger

#19590

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Edward Burger Burger is an American mathematician and President Emeritus of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Previously, he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, and the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching at Baylor University. He also had been named to a single-year-appointment as vice provost of strategic educational initiatives at Baylor University in February 2011. He currently serves as the president and CEO of St. David's Foundation.

#1379

Herbert Keller

#20490

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Herbert Bishop Keller was an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst. He was professor of applied mathematics, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. Early life and education Keller graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in electrical engineering in 1945; and from New York University, later known as the Courant Institute, with a Ph.D. in 1954.

#1380

Robert Morris

#26408

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Robert Morris is a mathematician who works in combinatorics, probability, graph theory and Ramsey theory. He is a researcher at IMPA. He graduated with a Ph.D. from The University of Memphis in 2006 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

#1381

Arjen Lenstra

#7561

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Arjen Klaas Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician, cryptographer and computational number theorist. He is a professor emeritus from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he headed of the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms.

#1382

David H. Bailey

David H. Bailey

#15253

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

David Harold Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1976. He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, and then from 1998 to 2013 as a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is now retired from the Berkeley Lab.

#1383

Henk van der Vorst

#22379

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Hendrik "Henk" Albertus van der Vorst is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University. According to the Institute for Scientific Information , his paper on the BiCGSTAB method was the most cited paper in the field of mathematics in the 1990s. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 and the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation. In 2006 he was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Henk van der Vorst is a Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics .

#1384

Nolan Wallach

#29830

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Nolan Russell Wallach is a mathematician known for work in the representation theory of reductive algebraic groups. He is the author of the 2-volume treatise Real Reductive Groups. Education and career Wallach did his undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1962. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966, under the supervision of Jun-Ichi Hano.

#1385

Vladimir Korepin

Vladimir Korepin

#22080

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

#1386

Jenny Harrison

#27823

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Jenny Harrison is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and career Harrison grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. On graduating from the University of Alabama, she won a Marshall Scholarship which she used to fund her graduate studies at the University of Warwick. She completed her doctorate there in 1975, supervised by Christopher Zeeman. Hassler Whitney was her postdoctoral adviser at the Institute for Advanced Study, and she was also one of the Miller Research Fellows at Berkeley. She was on the tenured faculty at the University of Oxford from 1978 to 1...

#1387

Graham Brightwell

Graham Brightwell

#24904

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Graham Brightwell is a British mathematician working in the field of discrete mathematics. Currently a professor at the London School of Economics, he has published nearly 100 papers in pure mathematics, including over a dozen with Béla Bollobás. His research interests include random combinatorial structures; partially ordered sets; algorithms; random graphs; discrete mathematics and graph theory.

#1388

Zoltán Füredi

#28267

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Zoltán Füredi is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . He is a research professor of the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign .

#1389

Jeffrey Rauch

#30848

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jeffrey B. Rauch is an American mathematical physicist, specializing in partial differential equations. Rauch obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1967, and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1971 .

#1390

Fred S. Roberts

#18291

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Fred Stephen Roberts is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, and a former director of DIMACS. Biography Roberts did his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1968; his doctoral advisor was Dana Scott. After holding positions at the University of Pennsylvania, RAND, and the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Rutgers faculty in 1972.

#1391

Arran Fernandez

#18005

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (29 years)

Arran Fernandez is a British mathematician who, in June 2013, became Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University, aged 18 years and 0 months. He is thought to be the youngest Senior Wrangler ever. Biography Prior to university, Fernandez was educated at home, predominantly by his father, Neil Fernandez. In 2001 he broke the age record for gaining a General Certificate of Secondary Education , the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16, for which he sat the examinations aged five. In 2003 he became the youngest person ever to gain an A* grade at GCSE, also for Mathematics.

#1392

Paul Rabinowitz

Paul Rabinowitz

#26540

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Paul H. Rabinowitz is the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics and a Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1966 under the direction of Jürgen Moser. From 1966 to 1969 he held a position as assistant professor at Stanford University. He has visited many mathematical institutions all over the world . In 1978 Paul Rabinowitz became a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

#1393

Pablo Parrilo

#29132

Overall Influence

Pablo A. Parrilo from MIT was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to semidefinite and sum-of-squares optimization. He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018.

#1394

Marsha Berger

#16152

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marsha J. Berger is an American computer scientist. Her areas of research include numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance parallel computing. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. She is Group Leader of Modeling and Simulation in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute.

#1395

Robert S. Boyer

#2936

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Robert Stephen Boyer is an American retired professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore also collaborated on the Boyer–Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm, in 1992. Following this, he worked with Moore and Matt Kaufmann on another theorem prover called ACL2.

#1396

Bertha Swirles

#12220

Overall Influence

1903 - 1999 (96 years)

Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys was an English physicist, academic and scientific author who carried out research on quantum theory in its early days. She was associated with Girton College, University of Cambridge, as student and Fellow, for over 70 years.

#1397

Denis Auroux

#21536

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Denis Auroux is a French mathematician working in geometry and topology. Education and career Auroux was admitted in 1993 to the École normale supérieure. In 1994, he received a licentiate and maîtrise in mathematics from Paris Diderot University . In 1995, he received a licentiate in physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University and passed the agrégation. In 1995, he received a master's degree in mathematics from Paris-Sud University with a thesis on Seiberg-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds. In 1999, he received his doctorate from the École polytechnique with supervisors Jean-Pier...

#1398

Francisco Javier González-Acuña

#20500

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Francisco Javier González-Acuña is a mathematician in the UNAM's institute of mathematics and CIMAT, specializing in low-dimensional topology. Education He did his graduate studies at Princeton University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1970. His thesis, written under the supervision of Ralph Fox, was titled On homology spheres.

#1399

Clara Grima

#26410

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Seville, specializing in computational geometry. She is known for her research on scutoids and for her popularization of mathematics.

#1400

Michèle Audin

#21982

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg, where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.

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