#1851
Salem Hanna Khamis
1919 - 2005 (86 years)
Salem Hanna Khamis was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies.
Go to Profile#1852
Joseph F. Traub
1932 - 2015 (83 years)
Joseph Frederick Traub was an American computer scientist. He was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia, as well as sabbatical positions at Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, California Institute of Technology, and Technical University, Munich.
Go to Profile#1853
Yuri Zhuravlyov
1935 - 2022 (87 years)
Yuri Ivanovich Zhuravlyov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician specializing in the algebraic theory of algorithms. His research in applied mathematics and computer science was foundational for a number of specialties within discrete mathematics, pattern recognition, and predictive analysis. Zhuravlyov was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the chairman of its "Applied Mathematics and Informatics" section. He was also the editor-in-chief of the international journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis.
Go to Profile#1854
Ulrike Tillmann
1962 - Present (62 years)
Ulrike Luise Tillmann FRS is a mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, who has made important contributions to the study of the moduli space of algebraic curves. She is the president of the London Mathematical Society in the period 2021–2022.
Go to Profile#1855
Jeffrey Weeks
1956 - Present (68 years)
Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist. Weeks is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow. Biography Weeks received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1978, and his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1985, under the supervision of William Thurston. Since then he has taught at Stockton State College, Ithaca College, and Middlebury College, but has spent much of his time as a free-lance mathematician.
Go to Profile#1856
Philippe G. Ciarlet
1938 - Present (86 years)
Philippe G. Ciarlet is a French mathematician, known particularly for his work on mathematical analysis of the finite element method. He has contributed also to elasticity, to the theory of plates and shells and differential geometry.
Go to Profile#1857
Tim Pedley
1942 - Present (82 years)
Timothy John Pedley is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and medicine.
Go to Profile#1858
Sergey Fomin
1958 - Present (66 years)
Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with algebra, geometry, and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky, he introduced cluster algebras.
Go to Profile#1859
Norman Breslow
1941 - 2015 (74 years)
Norman Edward Breslow was an American statistician and medical researcher. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, of the University of Washington. He is co-author or author of hundreds of published works during 1967 to 2015.
Go to Profile#1860
Scott Sheffield
1973 - Present (51 years)
Scott Sheffield is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research field is theoretical probability. Research Much of Sheffield's work examines conformal invariant objects which arise in the study of two-dimensional statistical physics models. He studies the Schramm-Loewner evolution SLE and its relations to a variety of other random objects. For example, he proved that SLE describes the interface between two Liouville quantum gravity surfaces that have been conformally welded together. In joint work with Oded Schramm, he showed that contour lines of the Gaussian free field are related to SLE.
Go to ProfileCornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
Go to Profile#1862
Damiano Brigo
1966 - Present (58 years)
Damiano Brigo is a mathematician known for research in mathematical finance, filtering theory, stochastic analysis with differential geometry, probability theory and statistics, authoring more than 130 research publications and three monographs. From 2012 he serves as full professor with a chair in mathematical finance at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London, where he headed the Mathematical Finance group in 2012–2019. He is also a well known quantitative finance researcher, manager and advisor in the industry. His research has been cited and published also in mainstream i...
Go to Profile#1863
Hà Huy Khoái
1946 - Present (78 years)
Hà Huy Khoái is a Vietnamese mathematician working in complex analysis. Career Hà Huy Khoái studied in Vietnam under the "fathers" of Vietnamese mathematics Lê Văn Thiêm and Hoàng Tụy, and in Moscow at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics under Yuri I. Manin. He is currently a professor and the director of the Mathematics Institute of Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. He is a senior advisor of the Acta Mathematica Vietnamica journal.
Go to Profile#1864
Roger Fletcher
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee. He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.
Go to ProfileGunduz Caginalp was a mathematician whose research has also contributed over 100 papers to physics, materials science and economics/finance journals, including two with Michael Fisher and nine with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith. He began his studies at Cornell University in 1970 and received an AB in 1973 "Cum Laude with Honors in All Subjects" and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1976 he received a Master's degree, and in 1978 a PhD, both also at Cornell. He held positions at The Rockefeller University, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh , where he was a Professor of Mathematics until his death on December 7, 2021.
Go to Profile#1866
R. Leonard Brooks
1916 - 1993 (77 years)
Rowland Leonard Brooks was an English mathematician, known for proving Brooks's theorem on the relation between the chromatic number and the degree of graphs. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and also worked with fellow Trinity students W. T. Tutte, Cedric Smith, and Arthur Harold Stone on the problem of "Squaring the square" , both under their own names and under the pseudonym Blanche Descartes.
Go to Profile#1867
Gustav A. Hedlund
1904 - 1993 (89 years)
Gustav Arnold Hedlund , an American mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics. Biography Hedlund was born May 7, 1904, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University, and returned to Harvard for his doctoral studies. He was a student of Marston Morse, under whose supervision he received a Ph.D. in 1930 with thesis entitled "I. Geodesics on a Two-Dimensional Riemannian Manifold with Periodic Coefficients II. Poincare's Rotation Number and Morse's Type Number".
Go to Profile#1868
Bang-Yen Chen
1943 - Present (81 years)
Chen Bang-yen is a Taiwan-born mathematician who works mainly on differential geometry and related subjects. He was a University Distinguished Professor of Michigan State University from 1990 to 2012. After 2012 he became University Distinguished professor emeritus.
Go to Profile#1869
Lee Stiff
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Lee Vernon Stiff was an American mathematics education researcher; a professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the College of Education at North Carolina State University ; and the author of several mathematics textbooks. In his 72 years of living he wrote many books.
Go to Profile#1870
John B. Garnett
1940 - Present (84 years)
John Brady Garnett is an American mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for his work in harmonic analysis. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1966, under the supervision of Irving Glicksberg. He received the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2003 for his book, Bounded Analytic Functions. As of June 2011, he has supervised the dissertations of 25 students including Peter Jones and Jill Pipher.
Go to Profile#1871
Bertil Gustafsson
1939 - Present (85 years)
Bertil Gustafsson is a Swedish applied mathematician and numerical analyst. He is currently a Professor emeritus in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Gustafsson is known for his work in numerical methods for time-dependent partial differential equations and its applications in fluid dynamics. He is the G in GKS theory for initial-boundary value problems which discusses the stability criterion for numerical approximations of initial–boundary value problems. Gustafsson has also authored a couple of books on the topic numerical methods applied to PDE.
Go to Profile#1872
Joel Lee Brenner
1912 - 1997 (85 years)
Joel Lee Brenner was an American mathematician who specialized in matrix theory, linear algebra, and group theory. He is known as the translator of several popular Russian texts. He was a teaching professor at some dozen colleges and universities and was a Senior Mathematician at Stanford Research Institute from 1956 to 1968. He published over one hundred scholarly papers, 35 with coauthors, and wrote book reviews.
Go to Profile#1873
Anatoly Karatsuba
1937 - 2008 (71 years)
Anatoly Alexeyevich Karatsuba was a Russian mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. For most of his student and professional life he was associated with the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, defending a D.Sc. there entitled "The method of trigonometric sums and intermediate value theorems" in 1966. He later held a position at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences.
Go to Profile#1874
Robert Everist Greene
1943 - Present (81 years)
Robert Everist Greene is an American mathematician at UCLA. Greene was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and a Putnam Fellow in 1963. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.
Go to Profile#1875
James Massey
1934 - 2013 (79 years)
James Lee Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem .
Go to ProfileJulia Rose Gog is a British mathematician and professor of mathematical biology in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She is also a David N. Moore fellow, director of studies in mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge and a member of both the Cambridge immunology network and the infectious diseases interdisciplinary research centre.
Go to Profile#1878
Kari Vilonen
1955 - Present (69 years)
Kari Kaleva Vilonen is a Finnish mathematician, specializing in geometric representation theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Melbourne. Education He received in 1983 his Ph.D from Brown University under Robert MacPherson with thesis The Intersection Homology D-module on Hypersurfaces with Isolated Singularities.
Go to Profile#1879
Gerard Washnitzer
1926 - 2017 (91 years)
Gerard Washnitzer was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. Washnitzer studied at Princeton University under Emil Artin and in 1950 received a Ph.D. under the supervision of Salomon Bochner. In 1952 he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After that, he was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and then a professor at Princeton University. From 1960 to 1961 and from 1967 to 1968 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Go to Profile#1880
Leonid Berlyand
1957 - Present (67 years)
Leonid Berlyand is a Soviet and American mathematician, a professor of Penn State University. He is known for his works on homogenization, Ginzburg–Landau theory, mathematical modeling of active matter and mathematical foundations of deep learning.
Go to Profile#1881
David Siegmund
1941 - Present (83 years)
David Oliver Siegmund is an American statistician who has worked extensively on sequential analysis. Biography Siegmund grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received his baccalaureate degree, in mathematics, from Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a doctorate in statistics from Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was Herbert Robbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he went to Stanford University in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department. He has also h...
Go to Profile#1882
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
1906 - 1994 (88 years)
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity. A progenitor and a paradigm founder in economics, Georgescu-Roegen's work was decisive for the establishing of ecological economics as an independent academic sub-discipline in economics.
Go to Profile#1883
Jeremy Rickard
2000 - Present (24 years)
Jeremy Rickard, also known as J. C. Rickard or J. Rickard, is a British mathematician who deals with algebra and algebraic topology. He researches modular representation theory of finite groups and related questions of algebraic topology, representation theory of finite algebras and homological algebra. Rickard or derived equivalences as a generalization of Morita equivalences of rings and algebras are named after him.
Go to Profile#1884
Bernard Carr
1949 - Present (75 years)
Bernard J. Carr is a British professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London . His research interests include the early universe, dark matter, general relativity, primordial black holes, and the anthropic principle.
Go to Profile#1885
Leo Zippin
1905 - 1995 (90 years)
Leo Zippin was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Biography Leo Zippin was born in 1905 to Bella Salwen and Max Zippin, who had emigrated to New York City from the Ukraine in 1903. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. His doctoral adviser was John Robert Kline.
Go to Profile#1886
Gert Sabidussi
1929 - Present (95 years)
Gert Sabidussi is an Austrian mathematician specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Biography Sabidussi was born in Graz, Austria. His family later moved to Innsbruck where his father was a Protestant deacon. He graduated from the University of Vienna, where he attended lectured by Felix Ehrenhaft, Nikolaus Hofreiter, Johann Radon and Hans Thirring. In 1953, he defended his doctorate on 0-1 matrices under the supervision of Edmund Hlawka and received a two-year fellowship at Princeton University. He was then an Instructor at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, but because of the heavy teaching load moved a year later, in 1956, to Tulane University in New Orleans.
Go to Profile#1887
Charles Epstein
1957 - Present (67 years)
Charles L. Epstein is a Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Research interests Epstein is an analyst and applied mathematician. His interests include microlocal analysis and index theory; boundary value problems; nuclear magnetic resonance and medical imaging; and mathematical biology.
Go to Profile#1888
Ian R. Porteous
1930 - 2011 (81 years)
Ian Robertson Porteous was a Scottish mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra. In Liverpool he and Peter Giblin are known for their registered charity Mathematical Education on Merseyside which promotes enthusiasm for mathematics through sponsorship of an annual competition.
Go to Profile#1889
Mladen Bestvina
1959 - Present (65 years)
Mladen Bestvina is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. Biographical info Mladen Bestvina is a three-time medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad . He received a B. Sc. in 1982 from the University of Zagreb. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics in 1984 at the University of Tennessee under the direction of John Walsh. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1987-88 and again in 1990–91. Bestvina had been a faculty member at UCLA, and joined the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah in 1993.
Go to Profile#1890
Børge Jessen
1907 - 1993 (86 years)
Børge Christian Jessen was a Danish mathematician best known for his work in analysis, specifically on the Riemann zeta function, and in geometry, specifically on Hilbert's third problem. Early years Jessen was born on 19 June 1907 in Copenhagen to Hans Jessen and Christine Jessen . He attended Skt. Jørgens Gymnasium, where he was taught by the Hungarian mathematician Julius Pal during his first year. In 1925, Jessen graduated from the gymnasium and enrolled at the University of Copenhagen. During his time at the university he got to know Harald Bohr, then a leading figure in Danish mathematics.
Go to Profile#1891
Roland Dobrushin
1929 - 1995 (66 years)
Roland Lvovich Dobrushin was a mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theory. Life and work Dobrushin received his Ph.D. at Moscow State University under the supervision of Andrey Kolmogorov.
Go to Profile#1892
George B. Purdy
1944 - 2017 (73 years)
George Barry Purdy was a mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Purdy received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972, officially under the supervision of Paul T. Bateman, but his de facto adviser was Paul Erdős. He was on the faculty in the mathematics department at Texas A&M University for 11 years, and was appointed the Geier Professor of computer science at the University of Cincinnati in 1986.
Go to Profile#1893
Yair Censor
1943 - Present (81 years)
Yair Censor is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at the University of Haifa, specializing in computational mathematics and optimization, as well as applications of these fields, in particular to medical imaging and radiation therapy treatment planning.
Go to Profile#1894
Andrew M. Gleason
1921 - 2008 (87 years)
Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in teaching at all levels. Gleason's theorem in quantum logic and the Greenwood–Gleason graph, an important example in Ramsey theory, are named for him.
Go to Profile#1895
Paul Ernest
1944 - Present (80 years)
Paul Ernest is a contributor to the social constructivist philosophy of mathematics. Life Paul Ernest is currently emeritus professor of the philosophy of mathematics education at Exeter University, UK. He is best known for his work on philosophical aspects of mathematics education and his contributions to developing a social constructivist philosophy of mathematics. He is currently working on questions about ethics in mathematics.
Go to Profile#1896
Hermann Bottenbruch
1928 - 2019 (91 years)
Hermann Bottenbruch was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Bottenbruch grew up in . Toward the end of World War II, he served as a . In 1947, he began the study of mathematics at the where he graduated in 1951. Following graduation, he joined the staff of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the . The institute was founded by Alwin Walther. Bottenbruch earned his doctorate there in 1957.
Go to Profile#1897
Brian Hartley
1939 - 1994 (55 years)
Brian Hartley was a British mathematician specialising in group theory. Education Hartley's PhD thesis was completed in 1964 at the University of Cambridge under Philip Hall's supervision. Career and research Hartley spent a year at the University of Chicago, and another at MIT before being appointed as a lecturer at the newly established University of Warwick in 1966, and was promoted to reader in 1973. He moved to a chair at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 1977 where he served as head of the Mathematics department between 1982 and 1984.
Go to Profile#1898
Paul-André Meyer
1934 - 2003 (69 years)
Paul-André Meyer was a French mathematician, who played a major role in the development of the general theory of stochastic processes. He worked at the Institut de Recherche Mathématique in Strasbourg and is known as the founder of the 'Strasbourg school' in stochastic analysis.
Go to Profile#1899
Panagiota Daskalopoulos
1950 - Present (74 years)
Panagiota Daskalopoulos is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University whose research involves partial differential equations and differential geometry. At Columbia, she also serves as director of undergraduate studies for mathematics.
Go to Profile#1900
John Guckenheimer
1945 - Present (79 years)
John Mark Guckenheimer joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California, Santa Cruz . He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , serving from 1997 to 1998. Guckenheimer received his A.B. in 1966 from Harvard and his Ph.D. in 1970 from Berkeley, where his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.
Go to Profile