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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#2851

Enrique Zuazua

#49063

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Enrique Zuazua is the Head of the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics - FAU DCN-AvH at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg . He is also Distinguished Research Professor and the Director of the Chair of Computational Mathematics of DeustoTech Research Center of the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid .

#2852

Ileana Streinu

#43006

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is known for her research in computational geometry, and in particular for her work on kinematics and structural rigidity.

#2853

Adriano Garsia

#53392

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Adriano Mario Garsia is a Tunisian-born Italian American mathematician who works in analysis, combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He is a student of Charles Loewner and has published work on representation theory, symmetric functions, and algebraic combinatorics. He and Mark Haiman made the N!_conjecture. He is also the namesake of the Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimal binary search trees, which he published with his student Michelle L. Wachs in 1977.

#2854

Paul C. Rosenbloom

#41907

Overall Influence

1920 - 2005 (85 years)

Paul Charles Rosenbloom was an American mathematician. Life Rosenbloom studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where as an undergraduate he became a Putnam Fellow in 1941. In 1944 he earned his PhD from Stanford University under Gábor Szegő with thesis On sequences of polynomials, especially sections of power series. He was a professor of mathematics at Brown University, Syracuse University , the University of Minnesota , and the Teacher's College of Columbia University . His doctoral students include Henry Gordon Rice.

#2855

Theodore Gamelin

#53618

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Theodore William Gamelin is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gamelin was born in 1939. He received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1960, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. His doctoral advisor was František Wolf. His doctoral dissertation was titled The extension problem for restrictions of functions in a subspace of C. He served as C.L.E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1965, before joining the UCLA faculty.

#2856

Deanna Haunsperger

Deanna Haunsperger

#46928

Overall Influence

Deanna Haunsperger is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College. She was the president of the Mathematical Association of America for the 2017–2018 term. She co-created and co-organized the Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women, which ran every summer from 1995 to 2014.

#2857

Jacques-louis Lions

#64464

Overall Influence

#2858

David Sankoff

#22694

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

David Sankoff is a Canadian mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Genomics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Ottawa, and is cross-appointed to the Biology Department and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He was founding editor of the scientific journal Language Variation and Change and serves on the editorial boards of a number of bioinformatics, computational biology and linguistics journals. Sankoff is best known for his pioneering contributions in computational linguistics and computational genomics.

#2859

Vivette Girault

#49037

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Vivette Girault is a French mathematician, whose research expertise lies in numerical analysis, finite element methods and computational fluid dynamics. She has been affiliated with Pierre and Marie Curie University.

#2860

Bryant Tuckerman

#31604

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Louis Bryant Tuckerman, III was an American mathematician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that developed the Data Encryption Standard . He studied topology at Princeton, where he invented the Tuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.

#2861

Herbert Fleischner

Herbert Fleischner

#41625

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Herbert Fleischner is an Austrian mathematician. Education and career Fleischner moved to Vienna with his parents in 1946. He attended primary and secondary school in Vienna, graduating in 1962. After that he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna; his main teachers were Nikolaus Hofreiter and Edmund Hlawka. He obtained his PhD degree in 1968; his official PhD supervisor was Edmund Hlawka, and his PhD thesis was entitled Sätze über Eulersche Graphen mit speziellen Eigenschaften, Sätze über die Existenz von Hamiltonschen Linien. However, Herbert Izbicki was the actual supervisor since he was a graph theorist.

#2862

Miriam Cohen

#46657

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Miriam Cohen is an Israeli mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose main areas of research are Hopf algebras, quantum groups and Noncommutative rings.

#2863

Vasilii Iskovskikh

#59289

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Vasilii Alekseevich Iskovskikh was a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Education and career Born into a peasant family, Iskovskikh entered in 1958 the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Tashkent State University. In 1963, as an outstanding student, he was invited to become a student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. There he became an active participant in Igor Shafarevich's seminar and, following the recommendation of Yuri Manin, studied birational geometry. After graduating in 1964, Iskovskikh entered the graduate school of the...

#2864

Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov

Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov

#61410

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov was a Russian and Italian mathematician. He made important contributions to the areas of differential calculus over commutative algebras, the algebraic theory of differential operators, homological algebra, differential geometry and algebraic topology, mechanics and mathematical physics, the geometrical theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and secondary calculus.

#2865

Jessica Purcell

#46129

Overall Influence

Jessica A. Shepherd Purcell is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology whose research topics have included hyperbolic Dehn surgery and the Jones polynomial. She is a professor of mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

#2866

Murray H. Protter

Murray H. Protter

#58834

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Murray Harold Protter was an American mathematician and educator, known for his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, as well as his well-selling textbooks in Calculus. Protter earned a M.Sc. in mathematics at University of Michigan and a Ph.D. at Brown University on a thesis entitled "Generalized Spherical Harmonics" advised by Lipman Bers . During the World War II era, he studied the aeroelasticity and flutter of military air planes at the Vought aircraft company in Stratford, Connecticut . Since his graduation, he worked as assistant professor at Syracuse Univers...

#2867

András Vasy

#57277

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

András Vasy is an American, Hungarian mathematician working in the areas of partial differential equations, microlocal analysis, scattering theory, and inverse problems. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

#2868

Viorel P. Barbu

#61460

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Viorel P. Barbu is a Romanian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, control theory, and stochastic differential equations. Biography He was born in Deleni, Vaslui County, Romania. He attended the Mihail Kogălniceanu High School in Vaslui and then the Costache Negruzzi National College in Iași. Barbu completed his undergraduate degree at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in 1964, and his Ph.D. at the same university in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Adolf Haimovici; his dissertation thesis was titled Regularity Theory of Pseudodifferential Operators. He became a professor at the University of Iași in 1980.

#2869

David Trotman

#31966

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David John Angelo Trotman is a mathematician, with dual British and French nationality. He is a grandson of the poet and author Oliver W F Lodge and a great-grandson of the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge. He works in an area of singularity theory known as the theory of stratifications, and particularly on properties of stratifications satisfying the Whitney conditions and other similar conditions important for understanding topological stability.

#2870

Jennifer Hill

#27666

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jennifer Lynn Hill is an American statistician specializing in causal inference with applications to social statistics. She is a professor of applied statistics at New York University in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

#2871

David Dunson

#41861

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

David Brian Dunson is an American statistician who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on developing statistical methods for complex and high-dimensional data. Particular themes of his work include the use of Bayesian hierarchical models, methods for learning latent structure in complex data, and the development of computationally efficient algorithms for uncertainty quantification. He is currently serving as joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, ...

#2872

Deborah J. Bennett

#32288

Overall Influence

Deborah Jo Bennett is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University. Education and career Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst. She majored in mathematics at the University of Alabama, graduating in 1972, and worked as a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as an operations researcher for the US Government Accountability Office before returning to graduate school for a master's degree in operations ...

#2873

Phillip Rogaway

#12290

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Phillip Rogaway is an American cryptographer who is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, and later earned a BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has taught at UC Davis since 1994. He was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2009 and the first Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography in 2016. Rogaway received an NSF CAREER award in 1996, which the NSA had attempted to prevent by influencing the NSF.

#2874

Cristian Dumitru Popescu

#38098

Overall Influence

Cristian Dumitru Popescu is a Romanian-American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in algebraic number theory, and in particular, in special values of L-functions.

#2875

Angela Kunoth

#49666

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Angela Kunoth is a German mathematician specializing in the numerical analysis of partial differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne, and the editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis.

#2876

Masahiko Fujiwara

#16220

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Masahiko Fujiwara is a Japanese mathematician and writer who is known for his book The Dignity of the Nation. He is a professor emeritus at Ochanomizu University. Biography Masahiko Fujiwara is the son of Jirō Nitta and Tei Fujiwara, who were both popular authors. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1966.

#2877

Mikhail Kadets

#58655

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets was a Soviet-born Jewish mathematician working in analysis and the theory of Banach spaces. Life and work Kadets was born in Kiev. In 1943, he was drafted into the army. After demobilisation in 1946, he studied at Kharkov University, graduating in 1950. After several years in Makeevka he returned to Kharkov in 1957, where he spent the remainder of his life working at various institutes. He defended his PhD in 1955 , and his doctoral dissertation in 1963. He was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in 2005.

#2878

Michael Randolph Garey

#64953

Overall Influence

#2879

Scott Vanstone

#31113

Overall Influence

1947 - 2014 (67 years)

Scott A. Vanstone was a mathematician and cryptographer in the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. He was a member of the school's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and was also a founder of the cybersecurity company Certicom. He received his PhD in 1974 at the University of Waterloo, and for about a decade worked principally in combinatorial design theory, finite geometry, and finite fields. In the 1980s he started working in cryptography. An early result of Vanstone was an improved algorithm for computing discrete logarithms in binary fields, which inspired Don Coppe...

#2880

W. Dale Brownawell

#61560

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Woodrow Dale Brownawell is an American mathematician who has performed research in number theory and algebraic geometry. He is a Distinguished Professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, and is particularly known for his proof of explicit degree bounds that can be used to turn Hilbert's Nullstellensatz into an effective algorithm.

#2881

Peter Keevash

#60684

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Peter Keevash is a British mathematician, working in combinatorics. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. Early years Keevash was born in Brighton, England, but mostly grew up in Leeds. He competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1995. He entered Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in 1995 and completed his B.A. in mathematics in 1998. He earned his doctorate from Princeton University with Benny Sudakov as advisor. He took a postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology before moving to Queen Mary...

#2882

Cohl Furey

#48780

Overall Influence

Cohl Furey, also known as Nichol Furey, is a Canadian mathematical physicist. Career Furey has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Simon Fraser University , Master's degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D in theoretical physics from the University of Waterloo . She was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2016 to 2019 and spent a few months at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town. Since 2020, she has been at the Humboldt University of Berlin on a Freigeist-Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation.

#2883

Alexander Nabutovsky

#63118

Overall Influence

Alexander Nabutovsky is a leading Canadian mathematician specializing in differential geometry, geometric calculus of variations and quantitative aspects of topology of manifolds. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.

#2884

Jennifer Balakrishnan

Jennifer Balakrishnan

#29869

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jennifer Shyamala Sayaka Balakrishnan is an American mathematician known for leading a team that solved the problem of the "cursed curve", a Diophantine equation that was known for being "famously difficult". More generally, Balakrishnan specializes in algorithmic number theory and arithmetic geometry. She is the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor at Boston University.

#2885

Gerda de Vries

#37176

Overall Influence

Gerda de Vries is a Canadian mathematician whose research interests include dynamical systems and mathematical physiology. She is a professor of mathematical and statistical sciences at the University of Alberta, and the former president of the Society for Mathematical Biology.

#2886

Alan E. Gelfand

#41276

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Alan Enoch Gelfand is an American statistician, and is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University. Gelfand’s research includes substantial contributions to the fields of Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics and hierarchical modeling.

#2887

Varghese Mathai

#30432

Overall Influence

Mathai Varghese is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide. His first most influential contribution is the Mathai–Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in index theory and topological quantum field theory. He was appointed a full professor in 2006. He was appointed Director of the Institute for Geometry and its Applications in 2009. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2013, he was appointed the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia.

#2888

Krishnaswami Alladi

#60640

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Krishnaswami Alladi is an Indian-American mathematician who specializes in number theory. He works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and was chair of the mathematics department there from 1998 to 2008. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Ramanujan Journal , which he founded in 1997.

#2889

David Dickey

#59792

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

David Alan Dickey is an American statistician who has specialised in time series analysis. He is a William Neal Reynolds Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. The Dickey–Fuller test is named for him and Wayne Arthur Fuller. David Dickey is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher by the ISI Highly Cited Database of the ISI Web of Knowledge. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is from Ohio.

#2890

William Dunham

#37164

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

William Wade Dunham is an American writer who was originally trained in topology but became interested in the history of mathematics and specializes in Leonhard Euler. He has received several awards for writing and teaching on this subject.

#2891

David Salsburg

#26283

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

David S. Salsburg is an author. His 2002 book The Lady Tasting Tea, subtitled How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century, provides a layman's overview of important developments in the field of statistics in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly in the areas of experiment design, the study of random distributions, and the careers of major researchers in the field such as Ronald Fisher, Karl Pearson, and Jerzy Neyman.

#2892

Nataša Pavlović

#40578

Overall Influence

Nataša Pavlović is a Serbian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research concerns fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations. She is known for her work with Nets Katz pioneering an approach to constructing singularities in equations resembling the Navier–Stokes equations, by transferring a finite amount of energy through an infinitely decreasing sequence of time and length scales.

#2893

Daniela De Silva

#56019

Overall Influence

Daniela De Silva is an Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Barnard College and Columbia University. Education and career De Silva did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II, and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1997. She completed her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. Her dissertation, Existence and Regularity of Monotone Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem, was supervised by David Jerison.

#2894

Antony Wassermann

Antony Wassermann

#56487

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Antony John Wassermann is a British mathematician working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory , the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.

#2895

Yan Soibelman

#59069

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Iakov Soibelman born 15 April 1956 is a Russian American mathematician, professor at Kansas State University , member of the Kyiv Mathematical Society , founder of Manhattan Mathematical Olympiad.

#2896

Rafael Irizarry

Rafael Irizarry

#38665

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Rafael Irizarry is a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of biostatistics and computational biology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Irizarry is known as one of the founders of the Bioconductor project.

#2897

Sarah B. Hart

#45824

Overall Influence

Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London and the Head of Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck. In 2020, she was appointed to what may be the oldest chair in mathematics in Britain, the Gresham Professor of Geometry in Gresham College. She is the first woman to hold this position "since the chair was established in 1597".

#2898

Arul Shankar

#47902

Overall Influence

Arul Shankar is an Indian mathematician at the University of Toronto specializing in number theory, particularly arithmetic statistics. Education He received his B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2007. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 2012 under Manjul Bhargava. Shankar is known for his work, with Bhargava, establishing unconditionally that the average rank of elliptic curves respectively.

#2899

Birgit Speh

#57218

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Birgit Speh is Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. She is known for her work in Lie groups, including Speh representations . Career Speh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. She was the first female mathematician to be given tenure by Cornell University, and the first to receive the title of Professor.

#2900

J. Michael Steele

#40506

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

John Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University, Columbia University and Princeton University.

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