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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#2651

Helge Tverberg

#52907

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Helge Arnulf Tverberg was a Norwegian mathematician. He was a professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Bergen, his speciality being combinatorics; he retired at the mandatory age of seventy.

#2652

Mark Ellingham

#50678

Overall Influence

Mark Norman Ellingham is a professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University whose research concerns graph theory. With Joseph D. Horton, he is the discoverer and namesake of the Ellingham–Horton graphs, two cubic 3-vertex-connected bipartite graphs that have no Hamiltonian cycle.

#2653

Cecil J. Nesbitt

#49602

Overall Influence

1912 - 2001 (89 years)

Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory. He taught actuarial mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in Ontario, Canada. He received his mathematical education at the University of Toronto and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He served the Society of Actuaries from 1985 to 1987 as Vice-President for Research and Studies. He developed the Schuette–Nesbitt formula with Donald R. Schuette.

#2654

Gideon Schechtman

#49468

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Gideon Schechtman is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Academic career Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University.

#2655

Jean-Michel Bony

Jean-Michel Bony

#42956

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Jean-Michel Bony is a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is known for his work on microlocal analysis and pseudodifferential operators. Education and career Bony completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure, where he received his Ph.D in 1972 with thesis advisor Gustave Choquet. Bony became a professor at the University of Paris-Sud and is now a professor at the École Polytechnique.

#2656

Alia Sabur

#50104

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (35 years)

Alia Sabur is an American materials scientist. She holds the record for being the world's youngest professor. Early life and education Sabur was born in New York City, New York. Her mother, Julie Sabur , worked as a reporter for News12 Long Island until 1995. She married Mohammed Sabur, a Pakistan native, in 1980. Alia, born on February 22, 1989, showed early signs of giftedness. She tested "off the IQ scale," according to an educator who tested her as a first-grader. As a fourth-grader, she left public school and was admitted to Stony Brook University at the age of 10, later graduating summa cum laude at 14.

#2657

George Bergman

#48008

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

George Mark Bergman, born on 22 July 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American mathematician. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968, under the direction of John Tate. The year before he had been appointed Assistant Professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught ever since, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1974 and to Professor in 1978.

#2658

Ernest Michael

#52959

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Ernest A. Michael was a prominent American mathematician known for his work in the field of general topology, most notably for his pioneering research on set-valued mappings. He is credited with developing the theory of continuous selections. The Michael selection theorem is named for him, which he proved in . Michael is also known in topology for the Michael line, a paracompact space whose product with the topological space of the irrational numbers is not normal. He wrote over 100 papers, mostly in the area of general topology.

#2659

Herbert Solomon

#45622

Overall Influence

1919 - 2004 (85 years)

Herbert Solomon was an American statistician. He was a professor emeritus of statistics at Stanford University and co-founder of the university's statistics department. Born in Harlem to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and later earned a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1941. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he was a member of the Statistical Research Group at Columbia. After the war, he would continue his doctoral studies at Stanford, and earned his doctorate in 1950.

#2660

Nataša Šešum

#44520

Overall Influence

Nataša Šešum is a Professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, specializing in partial differential equations and geometric flow. Education Šešum earned her PhD in 2004 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Gang Tian. Her dissertation was Limiting Behavior of Ricci Flows.

#2661

Joseph Lipman

#57903

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Joseph Lipman is a Canadian-American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry. Lipman graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor's degree in 1960 and then went to Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. there in 1965 under the supervision of Oscar Zariski. In 1965 he was an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston and in 1966 was an assistant professor at the Purdue University, where he became professor in 1971. From 1987 to 1992, there, he was head of the mathematics department. He was a member of the MSRI and visiting ...

#2662

Luitgard Veraart

#47271

Overall Influence

Luitgard Anna Maria Veraart is a German applied mathematician specialising in mathematical finance, and particularly in assessing, modeling, and managing the risks associated with financial networks. She is a professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics.

#2663

Otis Dudley Duncan

#14579

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

Otis Dudley Duncan was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman. His book The American Occupational Structure, which received the American Sociological Association's Sorokin Award, documented how parents transmit their societal status to their children. Duncan compiled his thoughts on the major issues of the field into Notes on Social Measurement, which he considered his greatest work.

#2664

William C. Waterhouse

#48800

Overall Influence

1941 - 2016 (75 years)

William Charles Waterhouse was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, after having taught there for over 35 years. The early part of his career was at Cornell University. His research interests included abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics.

#2665

Richard Thomas

#45856

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Richard Paul Winsley Thomas is a British mathematician working in several areas of geometry. He is a professor at Imperial College London. He studies moduli problems in algebraic geometry, and ‘mirror symmetry’—a phenomenon in pure mathematics predicted by string theory in theoretical physics.

#2666

Judith Grabiner

#22096

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Judith Victor Grabiner is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. Her main interest is in mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

#2667

Mei-Chu Chang

#52869

Overall Influence

Mei-Chu Chang is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory. Education Chang did her undergraduate studies in Taiwan and received a BS from National Taiwan University. She did her doctoral work at University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Robin Hartshorne and was awarded her PhD in 1982. Her dissertation was on Some Results on Stable Rank 2 Vector Bundles and Reflexive Sheaves on P3.

#2668

William Goldman

#60329

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

William Mark Goldman is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park . He received a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1977, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980.

#2669

Mark Ronan

#53129

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Mark Andrew Ronan is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London. He has lived and taught in: Germany ; in England, where from 1989 to 1992 he was Mason Professor of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham; and America at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where his teaching included courses on ancient literature from Mesopotamia, and on the history of the calendar, as well as mathematics.

#2670

Elisenda Grigsby

#43656

Overall Influence

Julia Elisenda Grigsby is an American mathematician who works as a professor at Boston College. Her research began with the study of low-dimensional topology, including knot theory and category-theoretic knot invariants. She is currently working in the field of machine learning.

#2671

Jean E. Rubin

#46567

Overall Influence

1926 - 2002 (76 years)

Jean Estelle Hirsh Rubin was an American mathematician known for her research on the axiom of choice. She worked for many years as a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. Rubin wrote five books: three on the axiom of choice, and two more on more general topics in set theory and mathematical logic.

#2672

Robert Morris

#9190

Overall Influence

1932 - 2011 (79 years)

Robert H. Morris Sr. was an American cryptographer and computer scientist. Family and education Morris was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Walter W. Morris, a salesman, and Helen Kelly Morris, a homemaker. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1957 and a master's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1958.

#2673

Karl Seebach

#52049

Overall Influence

1912 - 2007 (95 years)

Karl Seebach was a German mathematician. Seebach earned his doctorate at the University of Munich under Heinrich Tietze and Arnold Sommerfeld, in 1938. From 1977 to 1981, he held the Chair for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Munich.

#2674

Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum

#50338

Overall Influence

1903 - 2000 (97 years)

Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum , often known as Bill Birnbaum, was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory.

#2675

Cécile DeWitt-Morette

Cécile DeWitt-Morette

#26906

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.

#2676

Lisa Fauci

#47451

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Lisa J. Fauci is an American mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes such as sperm motility and phytoplankton dynamics. More generally, her research interests include numerical analysis, scientific computing, and mathematical biology. She is the Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University, and was president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics .

#2677

Joséphine Guidy Wandja

Joséphine Guidy Wandja

#37966

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Joséphine Guidy Wandja is an Ivorian mathematician. She is the first African woman with a PhD in mathematics. Early life She moved to France aged 14. She attended the Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, and later the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her master's degree thesis was entitled Sous les courbes fermées convexes du plan et le théorème des quatre sommets . Whilst working in Paris in the late 1960s she was advised by René Thom, Henri Cartan and Paulette Liberman. She studied for a PhD at the University of Abidjan, becoming the first African woman to get a PhD in mathematics.

#2678

Kathryn Hess

#46724

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Kathryn Pamela Hess is an American mathematician who has served as professor of mathematics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 1999. She is known for her work on homotopy theory, category theory, and algebraic topology, both pure and applied. In particular, she applies the methods of algebraic topology to the study of neurology, cancer biology, and materials science. She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#2679

Raimo Hämäläinen

Raimo Hämäläinen

#26873

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Raimo P. Hämäläinen is a professor emeritus at the Aalto University School of Science , Finland. Hämäläinen founded Systems Analysis laboratory at Aalto SCI in 1984. His research interests include systems intelligence, multiple-criteria decision analysis, sequential games, simulation, and energy modeling.

#2680

Christian Pommerenke

#59062

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Christian Pommerenke is a mathematician known for his work in complex analysis. He studied at the University of Göttingen , achieving diploma in mathematics , Ph.D. on the dissertation Über die Gleichverteilung von Gitterpunkten auf m-dimensionalen Ellipsoiden and habilitation . Pommerenke subsequently joined the faculty as Assistant and Privatdozent . Around the same time he served as assistant professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , was at Harvard University and was guest lecturer and reader at Imperial College in London . Since 1967 he has been professor in complex analysis at the mathematics department of the Technical University of Berlin.

#2681

Vitold Belevitch

#16077

Overall Influence

1921 - 1999 (78 years)

Vitold Belevitch was a Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Born to parents fleeing the Bolsheviks, he settled in Belgium where he worked on early computer construction projects. Belevitch is responsible for a number of circuit theorems and introduced the now well-known scattering parameters.

#2682

Walter Edwin Arnoldi

#40905

Overall Influence

1917 - 1995 (78 years)

Walter Edwin Arnoldi was an American engineer mainly known for the Arnoldi iteration, an eigenvalue algorithm used in numerical linear algebra. His main research interests included modelling vibrations, acoustics, aerodynamics of aircraft propeller, and oxygen reclamation problems of space science. His 1951 paper The principle of minimized iterations in the solution of the eigenvalue problem is one of the most cited papers in numerical linear algebra.

#2683

Marion Tinsley

#18145

Overall Influence

1927 - 1995 (68 years)

Marion Franklin Tinsley was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. Tinsley was world champion 1955–1958 and 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match, and lost only seven games from 1950 until his death in 1995. He withdrew from championship play during the years 1958–1975, relinquishing the title during that time. Derek Oldbury, sometimes considered the second-best player of all time, thought that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethov...

#2684

Yuriy Drozd

#43017

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Yuriy Drozd is a Ukrainian mathematician working primarily in algebra. He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

#2685

Lajos Takács

#47942

Overall Influence

1924 - 2015 (91 years)

Lajos Takács was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his contributions to probability theory and in particular, queueing theory. He wrote over two hundred scientific papers and six books. He studied at the Technical University of Budapest , taking courses with Charles Jordan and received an M.S. for his dissertation On a Probability-theoretical Investigation of Brownian Motion . From 1945-48 he was a student assistant to Professor Zoltán Bay and participated in his famous experiment of receiving microwave echoes from the Moon . In 1957 he received the Academic Doctor's Degree in Mathematics...

#2686

Alfio Quarteroni

Alfio Quarteroni

#36436

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Alfio Quarteroni is an Italian mathematician. He is Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Politecnico of Milan , since 1989 and has been the director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL , Lausanne , from 1998 until 2017. He is the founder of MOX at Politecnico of Milan and MATHICSE at EPFL, Lausanne . He is co-founder of MOXOFF, a spin-off company at Politecnico of Milan .

#2687

Laurent Fargues

#54522

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Laurent Fargues is a French mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. Fargues was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. Career From 2002 to 2011, Fargues was a chargé de recherches at the CNRS in Orsay, from 2011 to 2013 he was CNRS research director at the IRMA in Strasbourg and, from 2013, CNRS research director at the l'Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris .

#2688

James Robert McConnell

#36025

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Fr. James Robert C. McConnell was an Irish Catholic priest and theoretical physicist. McConnell entered University College Dublin in 1932 and graduated in 1936 with a first-class honours master's degree in mathematics. After leaving UCD, McConnell began his study for the priesthood, entering Clonliffe College. He moved to Rome after a year and earned a B.D., B.C.L., and S.T.L. and was ordained in 1939. He was made a Doctor of Mathematical Sciences by the Royal University of Rome in 1941.

#2689

Hans Duistermaat

Hans Duistermaat

#54193

Overall Influence

1942 - 2010 (68 years)

Johannes Jisse Duistermaat was a Dutch mathematician. Biography Duistermaat attended primary school in Jakarta, at the time capital of the Dutch East Indies, where his family moved after the end of World War II. In 1957, a few years after the Indonesian independence, they came back to the Netherlands and Duistermaat completed his high school studies in Vlaardingen.

#2690

Boris Dubrovin

#56186

Overall Influence

1950 - 2019 (69 years)

Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin was a Russian mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences . After his death, the Dubrovin Medal was created in his memory, and is awarded to promising researchers who make outstanding contributions to the fields of mathematical physics and geometry.

#2691

Arthur Ogus

#46758

Overall Influence

Arthur Edward Ogus is an American mathematician. His research is in algebraic geometry; he has served as chair of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley. Ogus did his undergraduate studies at Reed College, graduating in 1968, and earned his doctorate in 1972 from Harvard University under the supervision of Robin Hartshorne. His doctoral students at Berkeley include Kai Behrend.

#2692

Douglas Ulmer

#55670

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory. He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona. Education Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.

#2693

Susanna S. Epp

#29786

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Susanna Samuels Epp is an author, mathematician, and professor. Her interests include discrete mathematics, mathematical logic, cognitive psychology, and mathematics education, and she has written numerous articles, publications, and textbooks. She is currently professor emerita at DePaul University, where she chaired the Department of Mathematical Sciences and was Vincent de Paul Professor in Mathematics.

#2694

Bernd Fischer

#51490

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Bernd Fischer was a German mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the classification of finite simple groups, and discovered several of the sporadic groups. He introduced 3-transposition groups and constructed the three Fischer groups, predicted the existence of the baby monster and monster groups, and described and computed the character table of the baby monster.

#2695

Mathias Schacht

#58425

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Mathias Schacht is a German mathematician who specializes in graph theory. Schacht earned a diploma in business mathematics in 1999 from the Technical University of Berlin. He did his graduate studies at Emory University, completing a PhD in 2004 under the supervision of Vojtěch Rödl. His dissertation, on hypergraph generalizations of the Szemerédi regularity lemma, won the 2006 Richard Rado Prize of the German Mathematical Society. He worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and acting professor from 2004 until 2009, when he moved to the University of Hamburg....

#2696

David William Boyd

#47372

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

David William Boyd is a Canadian mathematician who does research on harmonic and classical analysis, inequalities related to geometry, number theory, and polynomial factorization, sphere packing, number theory involving Diophantine approximation and Mahler's measure, and computer computations.

#2697

Bethany Rose Marsh

#49058

Overall Influence

Bethany Rose Marsh is a mathematician working in the areas of cluster algebras, representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras, homological algebra, tilting theory, quantum groups, algebraic groups, Lie algebras and Coxeter groups. Marsh currently works at the University of Leeds as a Professor of pure mathematics. She was a EPSRC Leadership Fellow from 2008 to 2014. In addition to her duties at the University of Leeds, Marsh was an editor of the Glasgow Mathematical Journal from 2008 to 2013 and served on the London Mathematical Society editorial board from 2014 to 2018.

#2698

Benoit Perthame

Benoit Perthame

#42137

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Benoit Perthame is a French mathematician, who deals with non-linear partial differential equations and their applications in biology. He is a professor at Pierre-et-Marie Curie University and at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, which he directs.

#2699

Martin Isaacs

#55349

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

I. Martin "Marty" Isaacs is a group theorist and representation theorist and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He currently lives in Berkeley, California and is an occasional participant on MathOverflow.

#2700

Melania Alvarez

#38034

Overall Influence

Melania Alvarez de Adem is a Mexican mathematics educator who works as the Education Coordinator at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences , and Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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