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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#1401

Jean-Luc Brylinski

#19689

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jean-Luc Brylinski is a French-American mathematician. Educated at the Lycée Pasteur and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, after an appointment as researcher with the C. N. R. S., he became a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He proved the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures with Masaki Kashiwara. He has also worked on gerbes, cyclic homology, Quillen bundless, and geometric class field theory, among other geometric and algebraic topics.

#1402

Robert J. Frey

#27047

Overall Influence

Dr. Robert J. Frey is a former Managing Director of Renaissance Technologies Corp and presently serves as a Research Professor on the faculty of Stony Brook University where he is the Founder and Director of the Program in Quantitative Finance within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Frey obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University in 1986. He is the Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of global fund of hedge funds group FQS Capital Partners.

#1403

Didier Dubois

#12505

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Didier Dubois is a French mathematician. Since 1999, he is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems. In 1993–1997 he was vice-president and president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. His research interests include fuzzy set theory, possibility theory, and knowledge representation. Most of his works are co-authored by Henri Prade.

#1404

Paolo Marcellini

Paolo Marcellini

#31128

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Paolo Marcellini is an Italian mathematician who deals with mathematical analysis. He was a full professor at the University of Florence, actually Professor Emeritus, who works on partial differential equations, calculus of variations and related mathematics. He was the Director of the Italian National Group GNAMPA of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Florence.

#1405

Joseph Mazur

#25983

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Joseph C. Mazur is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. He holds a B.S. from Pratt Institute, where he first studied architecture. He spent his junior year in Paris, studying mathematics in classes with Claude Chevalley and Roger Godement and returned to Pratt to earn a B.S. in mathematics. From there he went directly to M.I.T to receive his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1972. He has held a visiting scholar position at M.I.T and several visiting professor positions at The Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick.

#1406

Raymundo Favila

#30557

Overall Influence

Raymundo Acosta Favila was a Filipino mathematician. He has his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley from 1939 under the supervision of Pauline Sperry, and had his career at the University of the Philippines in Manila. Dr. Raymundo Favila was elected as Academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology in 1979. He was one of those who initiated mathematics in the Philippines. He contributed extensively to the progression of mathematics and the mathematics learning in the country. He has made fundamental studies such as on stratifiable congruences and geometric inequalities.

#1407

Diane Maclagan

#25718

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Diane Margaret Maclagan is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick. She is a researcher in combinatorial and computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with an emphasis on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry.

#1408

Eckart Viehweg

#23410

Overall Influence

1948 - 2010 (62 years)

Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2003 he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with his wife, Hélène Esnault.

#1409

Vasile M. Popov

#13744

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Vasile Mihai Popov is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist. He is well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, now known as Popov criterion.

#1410

Mark Lee Green

#29967

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Mark Lee Green is an American mathematician, who does research in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, Hodge theory, differential geometry, and the theory of several complex variables. He is known for Green's Conjecture on syzygies of canonical curves. Green received in 1968 his bachelor's degree from MIT and in 1972 his PhD from Princeton University under Phillip Griffiths with thesis Some Picard Theorems for Holomorphic Maps to Algebraic Varieties. In 1970/71 Green was a Procter Fellow in Princeton. He was an instructor from 1972 to 1974 at the University of California, Berkeley and for the academic year 1974/75 at MIT.

#1411

George Alfred Barnard

#9706

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

George Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control. Early life and education George Barnard was born in Walthamstow, London. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother had been a domestic servant. His sister Dorothy Wedderburn became a sociologist and eventually Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London. Barnard attended the local grammar school, the Monoux School, and from there he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, to read mathematics. In 1937 he went on to Princeton University t...

#1412

John Friedlander

John Friedlander

#30638

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

John Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T. in 1974–76, and has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto since 1977, where he served as Chair during 1987–91. He has also spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to his individual work, he has been notable for his collaborations with other well-known number theorists, including...

#1413

Hao Huang

#24601

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Hao Huang is a mathematician known for solving the sensitivity conjecture. Huang is currently an associate professor in the mathematics department at National University of Singapore. Huang was an assistant professor from 2015 to 2021 in the Department of Mathematics at Emory University. He obtained his Ph.D in mathematics from UCLA in 2012 advised by Benny Sudakov. His postdoctoral research was done at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and DIMACS at Rutgers University in 2012-2014, followed by a year at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at University of Minnesota.

#1414

Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg

#29223

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg was a German-American mathematician who served as the editor of the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society from 1960 to 1965, and of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1974 to 1976.

#1415

Ioana Dumitriu

#18422

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Ioana Dumitriu is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include the theory of random matrices, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and game theory.

#1416

Chuan-Chih Hsiung

#30319

Overall Influence

1916 - 2009 (93 years)

Chuan-Chih Hsiung , also known as Chuan-Chih Hsiung, C C Hsiung, or Xiong Quanzhi, was a Chinese-born American mathematician specializing in differential geometry. He was Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.

#1417

Wilfrid Hodges

#10691

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Wilfrid Augustine Hodges, FBA is a British mathematician and logician known for his work in model theory. Life Hodges attended New College, Oxford , where he received degrees in both Literae Humaniores and Theology. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis in Logic. He lectured in both Philosophy and Mathematics at Bedford College, University of London. He has held visiting appointments in the department of philosophy at the University of California and in the department of mathematics at University of Colorado. Hodges was Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary College, University of ...

#1418

András Sárközy

#27163

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

András Sárközy is a Hungarian mathematician, working in analytic and combinatorial number theory, although his first works were in the fields of geometry and classical analysis. He has the largest number of papers co-authored with Paul Erdős ; he has an Erdős number of one. He proved the Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem that every sequence of natural numbers with positive upper density contains two members whose difference is a full square. He was elected a corresponding member , and a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Széchenyi Prize . He is the father of the mathematician Gábor N.

#1419

Vasily Vladimirov

Vasily Vladimirov

#23531

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional Tauberian theorems.

#1420

George Marsaglia

#14536

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

George Marsaglia was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for creating the diehard tests, a suite of software for measuring statistical randomness. Research on random numbers George Marsaglia established the lattice structure of linear congruential generators in the paper "Random numbers fall mainly in the planes", later termed Marsaglia's theorem. This phenomenon means that n-tuples with coordinates obtained from consecutive use of the generator will lie on a small number of equally spaced hyperplanes in n-dimensional space. He also developed the diehard tests...

#1421

Hans Samelson

#27193

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Hans Samelson was a German-American mathematician who worked in differential geometry, topology and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras—important in describing the symmetry of analytical structures.

#1422

Michael Shackleford

Michael Shackleford

#11913

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Michael Shackleford, , also known as "The Wizard of Odds" , is an American mathematician and an actuary. He is best known for his professional analysis of the mathematics of the casino games. He is also an adjunct professor of actuarial science and mathematics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He became interested in the mathematics of gambling at a young age after reading John Scarne's Guide to Casino Gambling.

#1423

David Rees

#23277

Overall Influence

1918 - 2013 (95 years)

David Rees FRS was a British professor of pure mathematics at the University of Exeter, having been head of the Mathematics / Mathematical Sciences Department at Exeter from 1958 to 1983. During the Second World War, Rees was active on Enigma research in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.

#1424

Shimshon Amitsur

Shimshon Amitsur

#19455

Overall Influence

1921 - 1994 (73 years)

Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, in particular PI rings, an area of abstract algebra. Biography Amitsur was born in Jerusalem and studied at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Jacob Levitzki. His studies were repeatedly interrupted, first by World War II and then by the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1946, and his Ph.D. in 1950. Later, for his joint work with Levitzki, he received the first Israel Prize in Exact Sciences. He worked at the Hebrew University until his retirement in 1989. Amitsur was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1952 to 1954.

#1425

D. J. Finney

#13783

Overall Influence

1917 - 2018 (101 years)

David John Finney , was a British statistician and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society. He was a pioneer in the development of systematic monitoring of drugs for detection of adverse reactions. He turned 100 in January 2017 and died on 12 November 2018 at the age of 101 following a short illness.

#1426

Magnus Hestenes

Magnus Hestenes

#25551

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Magnus Rudolph Hestenes was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to calculus of variations and optimal control. As a pioneer in computer science, he devised the conjugate gradient method, published jointly with Eduard Stiefel.

#1427

Mary Lou Zeeman

#28893

Overall Influence

Mary Lou Zeeman is a British mathematician at Bowdoin College in the US, where she is R. Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics. She specializes in dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology; she helped found the SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, and co-directs the Mathematics and Climate Research Network.

#1428

Yury Yershov

#12739

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Yury Leonidovich Yershov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Yury Yershov was born in 1940 in Novosibirsk. In 1958 he entered the Tomsk State University and in 1963 graduated from the Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University. In 1964 he successfully defended his PhD thesis "Decidable and Undecidable Theories" . In 1966 he successfully defended his DrSc thesis "Elementary Theory of Fields" .

#1429

Seppo Linnainmaa

#2721

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Seppo Ilmari Linnainmaa is a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist known for creating the modern version of backpropagation. Biography He was born in Pori. In 1974 he obtained the first doctorate ever awarded in computer science at the University of Helsinki. In 1976, he became Assistant Professor. From 1984 to 1985 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, USA. From 1986 to 1989 he was Chairman of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society. From 1989 to 2007, he was Research Professor at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He retired in 2007.

#1430

Thierry Aubin

#29006

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Thierry Aubin was a French mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. His fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Trudinger and Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature. Along with Yau, he also showed that Kähler manifolds with negative first Chern classes always admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, a result closely related to the Calabi conjecture.

#1431

Dimitris Bertsimas

#12898

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Dimitris Bertsimas is an American applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2005, Bertsimas was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to optimization theory and stochastic systems and innovative applications in financial engineering and transportation.

#1432

Michael Guy

#13735

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Michael J. T. Guy is a British computer scientist and mathematician. He is known for early work on computer systems, such as the Phoenix system at the University of Cambridge, and for contributions to number theory, computer algebra, and the theory of polyhedra in higher dimensions. He worked closely with John Horton Conway, and is the son of Conway's collaborator Richard K. Guy.

#1433

Stephen Fienberg

#15688

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Stephen Elliott Fienberg was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University. Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.

#1434

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

#15767

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus is a German mathematician and logician. He received his PhD in 1967 at the University of Münster under Hans Hermes and Dieter Rödding. Ebbinghaus has written various books on logic, set theory and model theory, including a seminal work on Ernst Zermelo. His book Einführung in die mathematische Logik, joint work with Jörg Flum and Wolfgang Thomas, first appeared in 1978 and became a standard textbook of mathematical logic in the German-speaking area. It is currently in its sixth edition . An English edition of Mathematical Logic was published in the Springer-Verlag Und...

#1435

Jaroslav Kurzweil

#30109

Overall Influence

1926 - 2022 (96 years)

Jaroslav Kurzweil was a Czech mathematician. Biography Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he was a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Henstock–Kurzweil integral in terms of Riemann sums, first published in 1957 in the Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal. Kurzweil has been awarded the highest possible scientific prize of Czechia, the "Czech Brain" of the year 2006, as an acknowledgement of his life achievements.

#1436

Lev M. Bregman

#16287

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Lev M. Bregman was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for the Bregman divergence named after him. Bregman received his M. Sc. in mathematics in 1963 at Leningrad University and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1966 at the same institution, under the direction of his advisor Prof. J. V. Romanovsky, for his thesis about relaxation methods for finding a common point of convex sets, which led to one of his most well-known publications.

#1437

Kaoru Ono

#30853

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Kaoru Ono is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in symplectic geometry. He is a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University. Ono received from the University of Tokyo his undergraduate degree in 1984, his master's degree in 1987, and his Ph.D. in 1990. Within symplectic geometry, his research has focused on Floer theory and holomorphic symplectic geometry involving holomorphic curves and pseudoholomorphic curves and their applications. He has collaborated extensively with Kenji Fukaya, Oh Yong-Geun, and Hiroshi Ohta .

#1438

Frank Smithies

#21041

Overall Influence

1912 - 2002 (90 years)

Frank Smithies FRSE was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.

#1439

Jacob Tsimerman

#32748

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (36 years)

Jacob Tsimerman is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his work in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry.

#1440

Donald Solitar

#33129

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Donald Solitar was an American and Canadian mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory. The Baumslag–Solitar groups are named after him and Gilbert Baumslag, after their joint 1962 paper on these groups.

#1441

Mihalis Dafermos

Mihalis Dafermos

#25580

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Mihalis Dafermos is a Greek mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and holds the Lowndean Chair of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge. He studied mathematics at Harvard University and was awarded a BA in 1997. His PhD thesis titled Stability and Instability of the Cauchy Horizon for the Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations was written under the supervision of Demetrios Christodoulou at Princeton University.

#1442

Gordon Foster

#16311

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

Frederic Gordon Foster was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number is based.

#1443

Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

#18364

Overall Influence

1925 - 2016 (91 years)

Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS was a British mathematician and oceanographer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , Cambridge University, England and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. He was the younger brother of H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins.

#1444

Hervé Jacquet

#18024

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Hervé Jacquet is a French American mathematician, working in automorphic forms. He is considered one of the founders of the theory of automorphic representations and their associated L-functions, and his results play a central role in modern number theory.

#1445

Ellis L. Johnson

#16238

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Ellis Lane Johnson is the Professor Emeritus and the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

#1446

Abel Klein

#19471

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Abel Klein is a Brazilian-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics and, more specifically, random Schrödinger operators for disordered systems. He received in 1971 his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Irving Segal with the thesis Regularity and Covariance Properties of Quantum Fields with Applications to Currents and Generalized Free Fields. Klein was from 1971 to 1972 an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and from 1972 to 1974 an instructor at Princeton University. At...

#1447

Keith Stroyan

#28762

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Keith D. Stroyan is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa. His main research interests are in analysis and visual depth perception. Publications Stroyan, K. D.; Luxemburg, W. A. J. Introduction to the theory of infinitesimals. Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 72. Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], New York-London, 1976.Reviewer Frank Wattenberg for Math Reviews wrote that "mathematicians whose principal interest is in functional analysis, complex analysis, or topology will find here some very valuable contributions to our understanding of these subjects" here.The book was cited over 365 times at Google Scholar in 2011.Stroyan, K.

#1448

Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman

#1077

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018.

#1449

Laurence Wolsey

Laurence Wolsey

#21407

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Laurence Alexander Wolsey is an English mathematician working in the field of integer programming. He is a former president and research director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He is professor emeritus of applied mathematics at the engineering school of the same university.

#1450

Ellis Kolchin

#32195

Overall Influence

1916 - 1991 (75 years)

Ellis Robert Kolchin was an American mathematician at Columbia University. Kolchin earned a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University in 1941 under supervision of Joseph Ritt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and 1961.

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