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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#2901

Elena Braverman

#41667

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Elena Yanovna Braverman is a Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician known for her research in delay differential equations, difference equations, and population dynamics. She is a professor of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Calgary, and one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Advances in Difference Equations.

#2902

Leon Takhtajan

#61870

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Leon Armenovich Takhtajan is a Russian mathematical physicist of Armenian descent, currently a professor of mathematics at the Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and a leading researcher at the Euler International Mathematical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

#2903

Peter L. Hammer

#55574

Overall Influence

1936 - 2006 (70 years)

Peter Ladislaw Hammer was an American mathematician native to Romania. He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their connections to graph theory and data mining.

#2904

György Elekes

#44045

Overall Influence

1949 - 2008 (59 years)

György Elekes was a Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem. He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. With Micha Sharir he set u...

#2905

Catherine Yan

#55185

Overall Influence

Catherine Huafei Yan is a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University interested in algebraic combinatorics. Education and career Yan earned a bachelor's degree from Peking University in 1993. She was a student of Gian-Carlo Rota at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1997 with a dissertation on The Theory of Commuting Boolean Algebras.

#2906

Luc Devroye

#26868

Overall Influence

Luc P. Devroye is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician and a James McGill Professor in the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Devroye wrote around 300 mathematical articles, mostly on probabilistic analysis of algorithms, on the asymptotic analysis of combinatorial structures , and on random number generation .

#2907

Ami Harten

#47129

Overall Influence

1946 - 1994 (48 years)

Amiram Harten was an American/Israeli applied mathematician. Harten made fundamental contribution to the development of high-resolution schemes for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. Among other contributions, he developed the total variation diminishing scheme, which gives an oscillation free solution for flow with shocks.

#2908

Kazuoki Azuma

#58595

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Kazuoki Azuma is a Japanese mathematician. Azuma's inequality in probability theory is named after him. Publications External links , archived at the Internet ArchivePartial Bibliography at CiNii

#2909

Jean-Jacques Moreau

Jean-Jacques Moreau

#31652

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. He normally published under the name J. J. Moreau. Moreau was born in Blaye. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, then became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He was appointed Professor of Mathematical Models in Physics at Poitiers University and later Professor of General Mechanics at University of Montpellier II. He was emeritus professor in the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil, a joint research unit of the university and the CNRS.

#2910

Glenn H. Stevens

Glenn H. Stevens

#65428

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Glenn H. Stevens is an American mathematician and educator. He is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University where he has taught and conducted research since 1984. Life As a high school student, Stevens was a student of the Ross Program, an experience which would later lead him to found the PROMYS program along with fellow Ross alumni Marjory Baruch, David Fried, and Steve Rosenberg. Stevens earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1981; his thesis advisor was Barry Mazur and the subject of his thesis was the special values of L-functions.

#2911

Brooke Benjamin

Brooke Benjamin

#38531

Overall Influence

1929 - 1995 (66 years)

Thomas Brooke Benjamin, FRS was an English mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations.

#2912

Robert Berger

#22965

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Robert Berger is an applied mathematician, known for discovering the first aperiodic tiling using a set of 20,426 distinct tile shapes. Contributions to tiling theory The unexpected existence of aperiodic tilings, although not Berger's explicit construction of them, follows from another result proved by Berger: that the so-called domino problem is undecidable, disproving a conjecture of Hao Wang, Berger's advisor. The result is analogous to a 1962 construction used by Kahr, Moore, and Wang, to show that a more constrained version of the domino problem was undecidable.

#2913

Emmanuel Giroux

#33086

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Emmanuel Giroux is a blind French geometer known for his research on contact geometry and open book decompositions. Education and career Giroux has Marfan syndrome, because of which he became blind at the age of 11. He earned a doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1991 under the supervision of François Laudenbach.

#2914

Jafar Zafarani

#55983

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Jafar Zafarani is an Iranian mathematician. A professor at the University of Isfahan and chancellor at Sheikhbahaee University, Zafarani's research interests include functional analysis and nonlinear functional analysis. Zafarani obtained his BSc in Mathematics at the University of Tehran in 1969 and completed his D.Sc. at the University of Liège, Belgium in 1974. He served as president of the Iranian Mathematical Society from 1989 to 1991.

#2915

Shigeru Mukai

#64824

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University specializing in algebraic geometry. Work He introduced the Fourier–Mukai transform in 1981 in a paper on abelian varieties, which also made up his doctoral thesis. His research since has included work on vector bundles on K3 surfaces, three-dimensional Fano varieties, moduli theory, and non-commutative Brill-Noether theory. He also found a new counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem .

#2916

Masamichi Takesaki

#42371

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Masamichi Takesaki is a Japanese mathematician working in the theory of operator algebras. Takesaki studied at Tohoku University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1956, a master's degree in 1958 and a doctorate in 1965. Beginning in 1958 he was a research assistant at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and from 1965 to 1968 he was an associate professor at Tohoku University. From 1968 to 1969 he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1970, he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was also a visiting professor at Aix-Marseille Univer...

#2917

Martha Siegel

#39497

Overall Influence

Martha Jochnowitz Siegel is an American applied mathematician, probability theorist and mathematics educator who served as the editor of Mathematics Magazine from 1991 to 1996. In 2017 she won the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service of the Mathematical Association of America for "her remarkable leadership in guiding the national conversation on undergraduate mathematics curriculum". She was a faculty member in the mathematics department of Towson University from 1971 until 2015, when she became a professor emerita.

#2918

Charles Colbourn

#43396

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Charles Joseph Colbourn is a Canadian computer scientist and mathematician, whose research concerns graph algorithms, combinatorial designs, and their applications. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Dorothean Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont; since then he has been a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University.

#2919

Victor L. Shapiro

#43435

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Victor Lenard Shapiro was an American mathematician, specializing in trigonometric series and differential equations. He is known for his two theorems on the uniqueness of multiple Fourier series. Biography

#2920

Olivier Ramaré

#32197

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Olivier Ramaré is a French mathematician who works as Senior researcher for the CNRS. He is currently attached to Aix-Marseille Université. Ramaré earned a doctorate in 1991 from the University of Bordeaux with a dissertation Contribution au problème de Goldbach : tout entier >1 est somme d'au plus treize nombres premiers supervised by Jean-Marc Deshouillers.

#2921

Naum Z. Shor

#19389

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

Naum Zuselevich Shor was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in optimization. He made significant contributions to nonlinear and stochastic programming, numerical techniques for non-smooth optimization, discrete optimization problems, matrix optimization, dual quadratic bounds in multi-extremal programming problems.

#2922

József Balogh

#56196

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

József Balogh is a Hungarian-American mathematician, specializing in graph theory and combinatorics. Education and career Balogh grew up in Mórahalom and attended secondary school in Szeged at Ságvári Endre Gyakorló Gimnázium . As a student, he won two silver medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He studied at the University of Szeged , where he received his M.S, in mathematics in 1995 with advisor Péter Hajnal and thesis On the existence of MDS-cyclic codes. In 2001 Balogh received his doctorate from the University of Memphis with advisor Béla Bollobás and thesis Graph properties and Bootstrap percolation.

#2923

Jaap Wessels

#30212

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Jacobus Wessels was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his contributions in the field of Markov decision processes.

#2924

Jun Li

#60741

Overall Influence

Jun Li is a Chinese mathematician who is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Fudan University and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Stanford University. He focuses primarily on moduli problems in algebraic geometry and their applications to mathematical physics, geometry and topology.

#2925

Maria-Pia Geppert

#51759

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Maria-Pia Geppert was a German mathematician and biostatistician who co-founded the Biometrical Journal. Geppert was the first woman to become a full professor at the University of Tübingen. With Emmy Noether, Hilda Geiringer, Ruth Moufang, and Hel Braun, Geppert was one of only a handful of women to work in mathematics in Germany before World War II and later convert their degrees into research careers as full professors.

#2926

Barry Arthur Cipra

#38810

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Barry Arthur Cipra, an American mathematician and freelance writer, regularly contributes to Science magazine and SIAM News, a monthly publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Along with Dana Mackenzie and Paul Zorn he is the author of several of the volumes in the American Mathematical Society series What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, a collection of articles about recent results in pure and applied mathematics oriented towards the undergraduate mathematics major.

#2927

William J. Ellison

#61288

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

William John Ellison was a British mathematician who worked on number theory. Ellison studied at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his bachelor's degree and then, after spending the academic year 1969/70 at the University of Michigan, his PhD in 1970 under John Cassels with thesis Waring's and Hilbert's 17th Problems. Subsequently, he became a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux. In 1972 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and a Lester Randolph Ford Award for his article "Waring's Problem“, an exposition of Waring's problem

#2928

Meigu Guan

#38525

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Meigu Guan is a Chinese mathematician and one of the country's leading experts on mathematical programming. He is known for his research on the route inspection problem, and served as president of Shandong Normal University.

#2929

Bernard Helffer

Bernard Helffer

#53377

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Bernard Helffer is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. He is the son of the pianist Claude Helffer and the musicologist Mireille Helffer. Helffer studied from 1968 at the École Polytechnique and received in 1976 from the University of Paris-Sud his doctorate under Charles Goulaouic with dissertation Hypoellipticité pour des classes d'opérateurs pseudodifférentiels à caractéristiques multiples. From 1971 to 1978 he did research at CNRS, from 1978 to 1989 he was a professor at the University of Nantes, and then he w...

#2930

Aleksandr Borovkov

Aleksandr Borovkov

#65801

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Aleksandr Alekseevich Borovkov is a Russian mathematician. Borovkov received his Russian candidate degree in 1959 under Andrey Kolmogorov at Moscow State University and his Russian doctorate in 1963. He is an academician at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Novosibirsk State University.

#2931

Jon A. Wellner

#52385

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jon August Wellner is an American statistician known for his contributions to the fields of statistical inference, empirical process theory, and survival analysis. Education and career Wellner was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in various cities in the US. Wellner attended Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah and graduated in 1963. He went on to attend the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1968. After a brief stint in graduate school at Yale University in 1969–1970 and serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from ...

#2932

Hubert Bray

#53396

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Hubert Lewis Bray is a mathematician and differential geometer. He is known for having proved the Riemannian Penrose inequality. He works as professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University. Early life and education He earned his B.A. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics in 1992 from Rice University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University under the mentorship of Richard Melvin Schoen.

#2933

Jean-Paul Delahaye

Jean-Paul Delahaye

#19017

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jean-Paul Delahaye is a French computer scientist and mathematician. Career Delahaye has been a professor of computer science at the Lille University of Science and Technology since 1988 and a researcher in the school's computer sciences lab since 1983. Since 1991 he has written a monthly column in Pour la Science, the French version of Scientific American, dealing with mathematical games and recreations, logic, and computer science. He is a contributing author of the online scientific journal Interstices and a science and mathematics advisor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

#2934

Hans Schneider

#55014

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Hans Schneider was a British-American mathematician, and James Joseph Sylvester Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was the first president of the International Matrix Group and its successor, the International Linear Algebra Society , which established the triennial Hans Schneider Prize in 1993. Schneider was a founding editor and then editor-in-chief of Linear Algebra and Its Applications and an Advisory Editor of the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra.

#2935

Toshiyuki Kobayashi

#32414

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Toshiyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese mathematician known for his original work in the field of Lie theory, and in particular for the theory of discontinuous groups and the application of geometric analysis to representation theory. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of discontinuous groups for non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces and the theory of discrete breaking symmetry in unitary representation theory.

#2936

Peter Henry Rossi

#65947

Overall Influence

#2937

Alexandru Zaharescu

Alexandru Zaharescu

#50269

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Alexandru Zaharescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He has two PhDs in mathematics, one from the University of Bucharest in 1991 under the direction of Nicolae Popescu, the other from Princeton University in 1995 under the direction of Peter Sarnak. Zaharescu has numerous publications in highly prestigious journals, and more than 300 in total. Almost all his work is in number theory.

#2938

Jonathan Sterne

#63765

Overall Influence

Jonathan A.C. Sterne is a British statistician, NIHR Senior Investigator, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, and the former Head of School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. He is co-author of “Essential Medical Statistics”, which received Highly Commended honors in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition.

#2939

Johannes Sjöstrand

#60430

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Johannes Sjöstrand is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and functional analysis. Sjöstrand received his doctorate in 1972 from Lund University under Lars Hörmander. Sjöstrand taught at the University of Paris XI and he is a professor at the University of Burgundy in Dijon.

#2940

Duong Hong Phong

#59293

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Duong Hong Phong is an American mathematician of Vietnamese origin. He is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for his research on complex analysis, partial differential equations, string theory and complex geometry.

#2941

Svitlana Mayboroda

#47122

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Svitlana Mayboroda is a Ukrainian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota and ETH Zurich. Research Mayboroda's research concerns harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, including boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations. Her work has provided a new mathematical approach to Anderson localization, a phenomenon in physics in which waves are confined to a local region rather than propagating throughout a medium, and with this explanation she can predict the regions in which waves will be confined.

#2942

Ronald DeVore

#49876

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Ronald Alvin DeVore is an American mathematician and academic. He is the Walter E. Koss Professor and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. DeVore is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#2943

Wallace Givens

#31949

Overall Influence

1910 - 1993 (83 years)

James Wallace Givens, Jr. was a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Born the son of two teachers in Alberene, Virginia , he obtained his bachelor's degree from their young alma mater, Lynchburg College in 1928 at the age of 17; his master's degree from the University of Virginia under Ben Zion Linfield in 1931 ; and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1936 under Oswald Veblen.

#2944

Pertti Mattila

#54043

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Pertti Mattila is a Finnish mathematician working in geometric measure theory, complex analysis and harmonic analysis. He is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

#2945

Hans Föllmer

#47863

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Hans Föllmer is a German mathematician, currently professor emeritus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the Cantor medal in 2006. In 2007 he became doctor honoris causa at the Paris Dauphine University.

#2946

Dmitry Kramkov

#62657

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dmitry Olegovich Kramkov is a Russian mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University. His research field are statistics and financial mathematics. Kramkov obtained his doctorate from Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 1992, under supervision of Albert Shiryaev. In 1996 he was awarded an EMS Prize for his work in filtered statistical experiments.

#2947

Robert E. Bixby

Robert E. Bixby

#27093

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

#2948

Sergey Khristianovich

#22378

Overall Influence

1908 - 2000 (92 years)

Sergey Alekseyevich Khristianovich was a mechanics scientist from the Soviet Union. Academician of AS USSR since 1943 , Hero of Soc. Labour . Sergey Khristianovich graduated from Leningrad State University in 1930. He has made a huge contribution into development of mechanics in Russia and is well known for his studies in aerodynamics.

#2949

Stan Ackermans

#44271

Overall Influence

1936 - 1995 (59 years)

Stanislaus Thomas Maria Ackermans was a Dutch mathematician, and the seventh rector magnificus of the Eindhoven University of Technology. He was also one of the founders, the namesake and the first director of the Stan Ackermans Instituut.

#2950

Noriko H. Arai

#7914

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Noriko H. Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence, known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics.

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