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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#1751

Jennifer Morse

#30553

Overall Influence

Jennifer Leigh Morse is a mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Research Morse's interests in algebraic combinatorics include representation theory and applications to statistical physics, symmetric functions, Young tableaux-Schur functions, which are a generalization of Schur polynomials.

#1752

Norman Levitt

#4266

Overall Influence

1943 - 2009 (66 years)

Norman Jay Levitt was an American mathematician at Rutgers University. Education Levitt was born in The Bronx and received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1963. He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1967.

#1753

Thomas Jerome Schaefer

#21084

Overall Influence

Thomas Jerome Schaefer is an American mathematician. He obtained his Ph.D. in December 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked in the Department of Mathematics. His Ph.D. advisor was Richard M. Karp.

#1754

George Karniadakis

George Karniadakis

#30697

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

George Em Karniadakis is a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University. He is a Greek-American researcher who is known for his wide-spectrum work on high-dimensional stochastic modeling and multiscale simulations of physical and biological systems, and is a pioneer of spectral/hp-element methods for fluids in complex geometries, general polynomial chaos for uncertainty quantification, and the Sturm-Liouville theory for partial differential equations and fractional calculus.

#1755

Mischa Cotlar

#32282

Overall Influence

1913 - 2007 (94 years)

Mischa Cotlar was a mathematician who started his scientific career in Uruguay and worked most of his life on it in Argentina and Venezuela. His contributions to mathematics are in the fields of harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and spectral theory. He introduced the Cotlar–Stein lemma. He was the author or co-author of over 80 articles in refereed journals.

#1756

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

#36572

Overall Influence

1945 - 2022 (77 years)

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC was a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis. Contributions Her research is in geometric functional analysis, and is unusual in combining asymptotic analysis with the theory of Banach spaces and infinite-dimensional convex bodies. It formed a key component of Fields medalist Timothy Gowers' solution to Stefan Banach's homogeneous space problem, posed in 1932. Her 1989 monograph on Banach–Mazur distances is also highly cited.

#1757

William Gasarch

#16383

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

William Ian Gasarch is an American computer scientist known for his work in computational complexity theory, computability theory, computational learning theory, and Ramsey theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science with an affiliate appointment in Mathematics.

#1758

Lucia Caporaso

#37106

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Lucia Caporaso is an Italian mathematician, holding a professorship in mathematics at Roma Tre University. She was born in Rome, Italy, on May 22,1965. Her research includes work in algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, tropical geometry and enumerative geometry.

#1759

Hassan Ugail

#10035

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Hassan Ugail is a Maldivian mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of visual computing at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Bradford. Early life Hassan Ugail was born in Hithadhoo, Maldives. He completed his primary education at Nooranee School in Hithadhoo.

#1760

Richard D. Schafer

#33100

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Richard Donald Schafer was an American mathematician. Richard Schafer studied at the University at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1938 and his master's degree in 1940. He received in 1942 from the University of Chicago his PhD under Abraham Adrian Albert with dissertation Alternative Algebras over an Arbitrary Field. After service in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, he was an instructor at the University of Michigan for the academic year 1945–1946. From 1946 to 1948 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1948 to 1953 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1761

Henry Gordon Rice

#24225

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Henry Gordon Rice was an American logician and mathematician best known as the author of Rice's theorem, which he proved in his doctoral dissertation of 1951 at Syracuse University with thesis advisor Paul C. Rosenbloom. Rice was also a Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Hampshire. After 1960 he was employed by Computer Sciences Corporation in El Segundo.

#1762

Donald Goldfarb

#18875

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Donald Goldfarb is an American mathematician, best known for his works in mathematical optimization and numerical analysis. Biography Goldfarb studied Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, earning a BSChE in 1963. He obtained an M.S. from Princeton University in 1965, and a doctorate in 1966.

#1763

David Pingree

#9829

Overall Influence

1933 - 2005 (72 years)

David Edwin Pingree was an American historian of mathematics in the ancient world. He was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University. Life Pingree graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1950. He studied at Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the supposed transmission of Hellenistic astrology to India. His dissertation was supervised by Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr. and Otto Eduard Neugebauer. After completing his PhD, Pingree remained at Harvard three more years as a memb...

#1764

Gregory Eskin

#28654

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Gregory Eskin is a Russian-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations. Eskin received in 1963 his Ph.D. from Moscow State University with thesis advisor Georgiy Shilov. In 1974 Eskin immigrated with his family to Israel and became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Warsaw. In 1982 he with his family emigrated from Israel to the USA and he became a professor at UCLA. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014.

#1765

Štefan Znám

#34848

Overall Influence

1936 - 1993 (57 years)

Štefan Znám was a Slovak- Hungarian mathematician, believed to be the first to ponder Znám's problem in modern times. Znám worked in the field of number theory and graph theory. He also co-founded journal Matematické obzory.

#1766

Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski

#13540

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski was a Polish mathematician. Born in Wilno, Second Polish Republic , he was a student of Hugo Steinhaus. At the age of 26 he became professor at Warsaw University. In 1959, he became a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. He was the advisor of 18 PhD theses. His main research areas were measure theory, functional analysis, foundations of mathematics and probability theory. Several theorems bear his name: the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed point theorem, the Ryll-Nardzewski theorem in model theory, and the Kuratowski and Ryll-Nardzewski measurable selection theorem.

#1767

Jun S. Liu

#16175

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jun S. Liu is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference, statistical machine learning, and computational biology. He was Assistant Professor of Statistics at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2004, he was Assistant, Associate, and full Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Since 2000, Liu has been Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and held a courtesy appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

#1768

Wayne Fuller

#18551

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Wayne Arthur Fuller is an American statistician who has specialised in econometrics, survey sampling and time series analysis. He was on the staff of Iowa State University from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983.

#1769

G. Spencer-Brown

#9216

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

George Spencer-Brown was an English polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form. He described himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet".

#1770

L. W. Beineke

#40028

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Lowell Wayne Beineke is a professor of graph theory at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Beineke is known for his elegant characterization of line graphs in terms of the nine Forbidden graph characterization.

#1771

Pierre Pansu

#32319

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Pierre Pansu is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

#1772

A. O. L. Atkin

#21583

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin , who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a British mathematician. As an undergraduate during World War II, Atkin worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of John Littlewood's research students. During 1964–1970, he worked at the Atlas Computer Laboratory at Chilton, computing modular functions. Toward the end of his life, he was Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

#1773

Michael Ian Shamos

#9547

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Michael Ian Shamos is an American mathematician, attorney, book author, journal editor, consultant and company director. He is the author of Computational Geometry , which was for many years the standard textbook in computational geometry, and is known for the Shamos–Hoey sweep line algorithm for line segment intersection detection and for the rotating calipers technique for finding the width and diameter of a geometric figure. His publications also include works on electronic voting, the game of billiards, and intellectual property law in the digital age.

#1774

Fedor Nazarov

#42434

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Fedor L'vovich Nazarov is a Russian mathematician working in the United States. He has done research in mathematical analysis and its applications, in particular in functional analysis and classical analysis .

#1775

Jörg Bewersdorff

Jörg Bewersdorff

#26013

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Jörg Bewersdorff is a German mathematician who is working as mathematics writer and game designer. Life and work After obtaining his Abitur from the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Neuwied Bewersdorff studied mathematics from 1975 to 1982 at the University of Bonn. In 1982 he submitted his diploma in mathematics in Bonn and in 1985 he received his doctorate there under the supervision of Günter Harder .

#1776

Peter B. Kronheimer

#33160

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Peter Benedict Kronheimer is a British mathematician, known for his work on gauge theory and its applications to 3- and 4-dimensional topology. He is William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and former chair of the mathematics department.

#1777

Sergei Tabachnikov

Sergei Tabachnikov

#38110

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, is an American mathematician who works in geometry and dynamical systems. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. Biography He earned his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1987 under the supervision of Dmitry Fuchs and Anatoly Fomenko. He has been living and working in the USA since 1990.

#1778

Roman Bezrukavnikov

#37675

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Roman Bezrukavnikov is an American mathematician born in Moscow. He is a mathematics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the chief research fellow at the HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics who specializes in representation theory and algebraic geometry.

#1779

Vera Kublanovskaya

#24585

Overall Influence

1920 - 2012 (92 years)

Vera Nikolaevna Kublanovskaya was a Russian mathematician noted for her work on developing computational methods for solving spectral problems of algebra. She proposed the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 1961, which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century. This algorithm was proposed independently by the English computer scientist John G.F. Francis in 1959.

#1780

Lam Lay Yong

#27191

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Lam Lay Yong is a retired Professor of Mathematics. Academic career From 1988 to 1996 she was Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore . She graduated from the University of Malaya in 1957 and pursued graduate study in Cambridge University, obtaining her Ph.D. degree from University of Singapore in 1966, and becoming a lecturer at the University of Singapore. She was promoted to full professor in 1988, taught in NUS for 35 years, and retired in 1996.

#1781

Norman Johnson

#35536

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Norman Woodason Johnson was a mathematician at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. Early life and education Norman Johnson was born on in Chicago. His father had a bookstore and published a local newspaper.

#1782

Irena Lasiecka

#27061

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Irena Lasiecka is a Polish-American mathematician, a Distinguished University Professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at the University of Memphis. She is also co-editor-in-chief of two academic journals, Applied Mathematics & Optimization and Evolution Equations & Control Theory.

#1783

Olga Oleinik

#36786

Overall Influence

1925 - 2001 (76 years)

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik HFRSE was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky. She studied and worked at the Moscow State University.

#1784

Jeffrey Hoffstein

Jeffrey Hoffstein

#33791

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Jeffrey Ezra Hoffstein is an American mathematician, specializing in number theory, automorphic forms, and cryptography. Education and career Hoffstein graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1974 from Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with thesis Class numbers of totally complex quadratic extensions of totally real fields under the supervision of Harold Stark. Hoffstein was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study and then at the University of Cambridge. From 1980 to 1982 he was an assistant professor at Brown University. From 1982 he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor at the University of Rochester.

#1785

Nicholas Varopoulos

#34177

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Nicholas Theodore Varopoulos is a Greek mathematician, who works on harmonic analysis and especially analysis on Lie groups. Varopoulos is the son of the Thessaloniki mathematics professor Theodore Varopoulos . Nicholas Varopoulos received his PhD in 1965 from Cambridge University under John Hunter Williamson. There he was in 1965 a lecturer in mathematics. In the academic year 1966–1967 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Varopoulos became a professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie .

#1786

Czesław Olech

#24977

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Czesław Olech was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski. Education and career In 1954 he completed his mathematical studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, obtained his doctorate at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1958, habilitation in 1962, the title of associate professor in 1966, and the title of professor in 1973.1970–1986: director of The Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences.1972–1991: director of Stefan Banach International Mathematical Cent...

#1787

Susanne Teschl

#30935

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Susanne Teschl is an Austrian biomathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien in Vienna. She is known for her research on the mathematical modeling of breath analysis.

#1788

Joachim Nitsche

#29188

Overall Influence

1926 - 1996 (70 years)

Joachim A. Nitsche was a German mathematician and professor of mathematics in Freiburg, known for his important contributions to the mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations. The duality argument for estimating the error of the finite element method and a scheme for the weak enforcement of Dirichlet boundary conditions for Poisson's equation bear his name.

#1789

Antoine Song

#39177

Overall Influence

1992 - Present (32 years)

Antoine Song is a French mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry. In 2018, he proved Yau's conjecture. He is a Clay Research Fellow . He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2019 under the supervision of Fernando Codá Marques.

#1790

Joan Bagaria

#32478

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Joan Bagaria Pigrau is a Catalan mathematician, logician and set theorist at ICREA and University of Barcelona. He has made many contributions concerning forcing, large cardinals, infinite combinatorics and their applications to other areas of mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in Logic & the Methodology of Science at Berkeley in 1991 under the supervision of Haim Judah and W. Hugh Woodin. Since 2001, he has been ICREA Research Professor at University of Barcelona. He served as the first president of the European Set Theory Society . He is also a talented teacher.

#1791

David Schmeidler

#28829

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

David Schmeidler was an Israeli mathematician and economic theorist. He was a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Ohio State University. Biography David Schmeidler was born in 1939 in Kraków, Poland. He spent the war years in Russia and moved back to Poland at the end of the war and to Israel in 1949. From 1960 to 1969 he studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the advanced degrees under the supervision of Robert Aumann. He visited the Catholic University of Louvain and University of California at Berkeley before joining Tel-Aviv University in 1971, holding p...

#1792

Frank Quinn

#35628

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Frank Stringfellow Quinn, III is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, specializing in geometric topology. Contributions He contributed to the mathematical field of 4-manifolds, including a proof of the 4-dimensional annulus theorem. In surgery theory, he made several important contributions: the invention of the assembly map, that enables a functorial description of surgery in the topological category, with his thesis advisor, William Browder, the development of an early surgery theory for stratified spaces, and perhaps most importantly, he pioneered the use of controlled methods in geometric topology and in algebra.

#1793

Leslie Fox

#18326

Overall Influence

1918 - 1992 (74 years)

Leslie Fox was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis. Overview Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a first in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on his D.Phil. in computational and engineering mathematics under the supervision of Sir Richard Southwell he was also engaged in highly secret war work. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations at a time when numerical linear algebra was performed on a desk calculator. Computational efficiency and accuracy was thus even more important than in the days of electronic computers.

#1794

Michael Shub

#30466

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Michael Ira Shub is an American mathematician who has done research into dynamical systems and the complexity of real number algorithms. Career 1967: Ph.D. and early career In 1967, Shub obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis entitled Endomorphisms of Compact Differentiable Manifolds. In his Ph.D. thesis, he introduced the notion of expanding maps, which gave the first examples of structurally stable strange attractors. His advisor was Stephen Smale.

#1795

Klaus Hulek

#39798

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Klaus Hulek is a German mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry and in particular, his work on moduli spaces. Life Klaus Hulek studied Mathematics from 1971 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich graduating in 1976 with his Diplom. In 1974/75 he studied at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford, where he obtained a master's degree.

#1796

William J. Cook

William J. Cook

#15549

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

William John Cook is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for theoretical and computational contributions to discrete optimization.

#1797

Lorenzo Ramero

#40371

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Lorenzo Ramero is an Italian mathematician living in France, specialized in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Lille. Ramero obtained his Laurea in Matematica from the University of Pisa and his Diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1989. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 under the supervision of Alexander Beilinson, with a thesis titled -adic Fourier transform over local fields.

#1798

Karsten Grove

#40206

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Karsten Grove is a Danish-American mathematician working in metric and differential geometry, differential topology and global analysis, mainly in topics related to global Riemannian geometry, Alexandrov geometry, isometric group actionss and manifolds with positive or nonnegative sectional curvature.

#1799

Titu Andreescu

#25049

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Titu Andreescu is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is firmly involved in mathematics contests and olympiads, having been the Director of American Mathematics Competitions , Director of the Mathematical Olympiad Program, Head Coach of the United States International Mathematical Olympiad Team, and Chairman of the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad. He has also authored a large number of books on the topic of problem solving and olympiad-style mathematics.

#1800

Alexander Merkurjev

Alexander Merkurjev

#37053

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Merkurjev is a Russian-American mathematician, who has made major contributions to the field of algebra. Currently Merkurjev is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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