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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#2951

Hugh C. Williams

Hugh C. Williams

#50274

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Hugh Cowie Williams is a Canadian mathematician. He deals with number theory and cryptography. Early life Williams studied mathematics at the University of Waterloo , where he received his doctorate in 1969 in computer science under Ronald C. Mullin . He was a post-doctoral student at York University.

#2952

David Applegate

#27035

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

David L. Applegate is an American computer scientist known for his research on the traveling salesperson problem. Education Applegate graduated from the University of Dayton in 1984, and completed his doctorate in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon University, with a dissertation on convex volume approximation supervised by Ravindran Kannan.

#2953

Harold Exton

#56376

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Harold Exton is a mathematician at University of Central Lancashire working on hypergeometric functions, who introduced the Hahn–Exton q-Bessel function.

#2954

Marcia Groszek

#54581

Overall Influence

Marcia Jean Groszek is an American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Education As a high school student, Groszek felt isolated for her interest in mathematics, but she found a sense of community through her participation in the Hampshire College Summer Mathematics Program, and she went on to earn her bachelor's degree at Hampshire College. She completed her Ph.D. in 1981 at Harvard University. Her dissertation, Iterated Perfect Set Forcing and Degrees of Constructibility, ...

#2955

Walter Alexander Strauss

#44754

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Walter Alexander Strauss is an American applied mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and nonlinear waves. His research interests include partial differential equations, mathematical physics, stability theory, solitary waves, kinetic theory of plasmas, scattering theory, water waves, and dispersive waves.

#2956

Vladimir Batagelj

Vladimir Batagelj

#35159

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Vladimir Batagelj is a Slovenian mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He is known for his work in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization, particularly analysis of social networks and other large networks .

#2957

Toby Gee

#53812

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Toby Stephen Gee is a British mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands Program. He specialises in algebraic number theory. Gee was awarded the Whitehead Prize in 2012, the Leverhulme Prize in 2012, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014.

#2958

Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov

Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov

#53692

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Evgeny Tyrtyshnikov is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC . Has been working at Moscow State University since 2004.

#2959

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

#66381

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#2960

Ruth Haas

#22993

Overall Influence

Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2015 for her mentorship of women in mathematics. Haas was named an inaugural AWM Fellow in 2017. In 2017 she was elected President of the AWM and on February 1, 2019 she assumed that position.

#2961

Jens Carsten Jantzen

Jens Carsten Jantzen

#59354

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Jens Carsten Jantzen is a mathematician working on representation theory and algebraic groups, who introduced the Jantzen filtration, the Jantzen sum formula, and translation functors. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#2962

Kanakanahalli Ramachandra

#62517

Overall Influence

1933 - 2011 (78 years)

Kanakanahalli Ramachandra was an Indian mathematician working in both analytic number theory and algebraic number theory. Early career Ramachandra went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Bombay, for his graduate studies in 1958. He obtained his PhD from University of Mumbai in 1965; his doctorate was guided by K. G. Ramanathan.

#2963

Wilfrid Dixon

#38975

Overall Influence

1915 - 2008 (93 years)

Wilfrid Joseph Dixon was an American mathematician and statistician. He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics, statistical education and experimental design. A native of Portland, Oregon, Dixon received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State College in 1938. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a master's degree in 1939. Under supervision of Samuel S. Wilks, he then earned a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Princeton in 1944. During World War II, he was an operations analyst on Guam.

#2964

Donald W. Loveland

#14031

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Donald W. Loveland is a professor emeritus of computer science at Duke University who specializes in artificial intelligence. He is well known for the Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland algorithm.

#2965

Mary Beth Ruskai

#23611

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Mary Beth Ruskai was an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics with interest in mathematical problems in quantum physics. She was a Fellow of the AAAS, AMS, APS, and AWM. Education Ruskai was the daughter of Michael J. Ruskai and Evelyn M. Ruskai . She had three sisters. She graduated from Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio in 1965 with a BS in chemistry. She simultaneously received her M.A. in mathematics and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. Her PhD thesis was about the N-Representability Problem.

#2966

Odd Aalen

#37281

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Odd Olai Aalen is a Norwegian statistician and a professor at the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo. Life Aalen completed his examen artium in 1966 at Oslo Cathedral School before studying first mathematics and physics and then statistics in which he graduated at the University of Oslo in 1972.

#2967

Xavier Tolsa

#62916

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Xavier Tolsa is a Catalan mathematician, specializing in analysis. Tolsa is a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats , the Catalan Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies.

#2968

J. Nathan Kutz

#50244

Overall Influence

José Nathan Kutz is the Robert Bolles and Yasuko Endo Professor within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. His main research interests involve non-linear waves and coherent structures , as well as dimensionality reduction and data-analysis techniques for complex systems.

#2969

Olga Bondareva

#45141

Overall Influence

1937 - 1991 (54 years)

Olga Nikolaevna Bondareva was a distinguished Soviet mathematician and economist. She contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, especially game theory. Bondareva is best known as one of the two independent discoverers of the Bondareva–Shapley theorem.

#2970

Gyula Y. Katona

#51315

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Gyula Y. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician, the son of mathematician Gyula O. H. Katona. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation titled Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs under the advisement of László Lovász and András Recski, and is on the faculty of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

#2971

Steven Zelditch

Steven Zelditch

#57867

Overall Influence

1953 - 2022 (69 years)

Steven Morris Zelditch was an American mathematician, specializing in global analysis, complex geometry, and mathematical physics . Zelditch received in 1975 from Harvard University his bachelor's degree in mathematics and in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley his Ph.D. under Alan Weinstein with thesis Reconstruction of singularities of solutions for Schrödinger's equations. From 1981 to 1985 Zelditch was Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University. At Johns Hopkins University he was from 1985 to 1989 an assistant Professor, from 1989 to 1992 an associate professor, and from 1992 to 2010 a professor.

#2972

Larisa Maksimova

#23221

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Larisa Lvovna Maksimova is a Russian mathematical logician known for her research in non-classical logic. Education and career Maksimova was born on November 5, 1943, in Kochenyovo, the daughter of two biologists who had temporarily moved there from Tomsk State University to escape the war. She grew up in Novosibirsk, where her parents became geographers at the Novosibirsk Pedagogical Institute. She studied mechanics and mathematics at Novosibirsk State University, publishing her first paper on Wilhelm Ackermann's axioms for strict implication in relevance logic in 1964 and graduating in 1965...

#2973

J. Carson Mark

#9101

Overall Influence

1913 - 1997 (84 years)

Jordan Carson Mark was a Canadian-American mathematician best known for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark joined the Manhattan Project in 1945, and continued to work at Los Alamos under the leadership of Norris Bradbury after World War II ended. He became the leader of the Theoretical Division at the laboratory in 1947, a position he held until 1973. He oversaw the development of new weapons, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. On the hydrogen bomb project he was able to bring together experts like Edward Teller, St...

#2974

Charles P. Boyer

#54255

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Charles Place Boyer is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and moduli spaces. He is known as one of the four mathematicians who jointly proved in 1992 the Atiyah–Jones conjecture.

#2975

Stephen H. Davis

#24721

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Stephen Howard Davis was an American applied mathematician working in the fields of fluid mechanics and materials science. Davis was the McCormick School Institute Professor and the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University. Davis has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited researcher in Engineering. His work was acknowledged in festschrifts in 2002.

#2976

Lois Curfman McInnes

#39012

Overall Influence

Lois Virginia Curfman McInnes is an American applied mathematician who works as a senior computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where she works on the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications.

#2977

Yuri Tschinkel

#62983

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Yuri Tschinkel is a Russian-German-American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, automorphic forms and number theory. Education and career Tschinkel attended from 1979, the Erweiterte Oberschule Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in East Berlin and passed there in 1983 the Abitur. He graduated with honors from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1990 and received his doctorate in 1992 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with thesis Rational points on algebraic surfaces under the supervision of Yuri Manin and Michael Artin. From 1992 to 1995 Tschinkel was a junior fellow at Harvard University.

#2978

J. Hyam Rubinstein

J. Hyam Rubinstein

#43575

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joachim Hyam Rubinstein FAA an Australian top mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology; he is currently serving as an honorary professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, having retired in 2019.

#2979

Will Sawin

#66882

Overall Influence

Will Sawin is an associate professor of mathematics at Columbia University specialising in number theory and algebraic geometry and other areas. He was also a Clay Research Fellow in Clay Mathematical Institute. He earned his PhD degree from Princeton University in 2016 on "A Tannakian Category and a Horizontal Equidistribution Conjecture for Exponential Sums" under the supervision of Nick Katz. Will Sawin has found important applications of etale cohomology to theory of exponential sums over finite fields and also of classical counting techniques in analytic number theory in the study of cohomology in spaces which are of interest in algebraic geometry.

#2980

Derek Taunt

#25352

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

Derek Roy Taunt was a British mathematician who worked as a codebreaker during World War II at Bletchley Park. Taunt attended Enfield Grammar, then the City of London School. He studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge between 1936 and 1939. He was accepted as a research student by G. H. Hardy, but this was postponed by the outbreak of World War II. Taunt registered with the Joint Recruiting Board, and was initially allocated to work on ballistics at Kemnal Manor in Chislehurst, preparing range tables for new weapons. Finding that the task required only trivial mathematics , he sought ...

#2981

Ian Diamond

#20971

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Sir Ian David Diamond is a British statistician, academic, and administrator, who served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen until 2018. He became the UK's National Statistician in October 2019.

#2982

Steven J. Miller

#33694

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Steven Joel Miller is a mathematician who specializes in analytic number theory and has also worked in applied fields such as sabermetrics and linear programming. He is a co-author, with Ramin Takloo-Bighash, of An Invitation to Modern Number Theory , with Midge Cozzens of The Mathematics of Encryption: An Elementary Introduction , and with Stephan Ramon Garcia of ``100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection . He also edited Theory and Applications of Benford's Law and wrote The Mathematics of Optimization: How to do things faster and ``The Probability Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Chance .

#2983

Yuri Prokhorov

#63200

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956.

#2984

Moshé Machover

#16694

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Moshé Machover is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, Machover moved to Britain in 1968 where he became a naturalised citizen. He was a founder of Matzpen, the Israeli Socialist Organisation, in 1962.

#2985

Michael Krivelevich

Michael Krivelevich

#58245

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Michael Krivelevich is a professor with the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University, Israel. Krivelevich received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1997 under the supervision of Noga Alon. He has published extensively in combinatorics and adjacent fields and specializes in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.

#2986

Kristin Lauter

#50887

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Kristin Estella Lauter is an American mathematician and cryptographer whose research interest is broadly in application of number theory and algebraic geometry in cryptography. She is particularly known for her work in the area of elliptic curve cryptography. She was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, from 1999–2021 and the head of the Cryptography Group from 2008–2021; her group developed Microsoft SEAL. In April 2021, Lauter joined Facebook AI Research as the West Coast Head of Research Science. She became the President-Elect of the Association for Women in Mathema...

#2987

Alfred van der Poorten

Alfred van der Poorten

#48384

Overall Influence

1942 - 2010 (68 years)

Alfred Jacobus van der Poorten was a Dutch-Australian number theorist, for many years on the mathematics faculties of the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University. Biography Van der Poorten was born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1942, after the German occupation began. His parents, David and Marianne van der Poorten, gave him into foster care with the Teerink family in Amersfoort, under the name "Fritsje"; the senior van der Poortens went into hiding, were caught by the Nazis, survived the concentration camps, and were reunited with van der Poorten and his two sisters after the war.

#2988

Anne Sjerp Troelstra

#39025

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Anne Sjerp Troelstra was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. He was a constructivist logician, who was influential in the development of intuitionistic logic With Georg Kreisel, he was a developer of the theory of choice sequences. He wrote one of the first texts on linear logic, and, with Helmut Schwichtenberg, he co-wrote an important book on proof theory.

#2989

Raphaël Cerf

#56159

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Raphaël Cerf is a French mathematician at Paris-Sud 11 University. For his contributions to probability theory, he won the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1999, and the EMS Prize in 2000. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 2006 in Madrid.

#2990

Donald Burkholder

Donald Burkholder

#60337

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

Donald Lyman Burkholder was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales. The Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality is co-named after him. Burkholder spent most of his professional career as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After his retirement in 1998, Donald Burkholder remained a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#2991

Asuman Aksoy

#30833

Overall Influence

Asuman Güven Aksoy is a Turkish-American mathematician whose research concerns topics in functional analysis, metric geometry, and operator theory including Banach spaces, measures of non-compactness, fixed points, Birnbaum–Orlicz spaces, real trees, injective metric spaces, and tight spans. She works at Claremont McKenna College, where she is Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow.

#2992

Michael Loss

#56765

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Michael Loss is a mathematician and mathematical physicist who works as a professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Loss obtained his Ph.D. in 1982 from ETH Zurich, with a dissertation on the three-body problem jointly supervised by Walter Hunziker and Israel Michael Sigal.

#2993

Ariane Mézard

#33166

Overall Influence

Ariane Mézard is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Sorbonne University who works in arithmetic geometry. Education Mézard studied at the École normale supérieure de Lyon from 1992 to 1996. She received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Roland Gillard at Joseph Fourier University in 1998. She received her habilitation in 2005 during her time at Paris-Sud University.

#2994

Michael D. Plummer

#51764

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Michael David Plummer is a retired mathematics professor from Vanderbilt University. His field of work is in graph theory in which he has produced over a hundred papers and publications. He has also spoken at over a hundred and fifty guest lectures around the world.

#2995

Lawrence Ein

#60121

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Lawrence Man Hou Ein is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry. Education and career Lawrence Ein received in 1976 his bachelor's degree from UCLA and in 1981 his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Robin Hartshorne with thesis Stable vector bundles on projective spaces in char p > 0 .

#2996

Yadolah Dodge

#28496

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Yadolah Dodge is an Iranian and Swiss statistician. His major contributions are in the theory of operational research, design of experiments, simulation and regression. Early life He spent his early years in Abadan, Iran. He went then to the Gundeshapur or Jundi Shapour University and obtained his Post Licentiate in Engineering in Agriculture in 1966 with distinction. He got his PhD at the Oregon State University in 1974.

#2997

Silvia Heubach

#47776

Overall Influence

Silvia Heubach is a German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics. She is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Los Angeles.

#2998

Toufik Mansour

#63689

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Toufik Mansour is an Israeli mathematician working in algebraic combinatorics. He is a member of the Druze community and is the first Israeli Druze to become a professional mathematician. Mansour obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Haifa in 2001 under Alek Vainshtein. As of 2007, he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Haifa. He served as chair of the department from 2015 to 2017. He has previously been a faculty member of the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University from 2004 to 2007, and at The John Knopfmacher Center for Applicable Analysis and Numbe...

#2999

Alan Huckleberry

Alan Huckleberry

#48552

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Alan Trinler Huckleberry is an American mathematician who works in complex analysis, Lie groups actions and algebraic geometry. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum and Wisdom Professor of Mathematics at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany.

#3000

Sigurd Angenent

#50732

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sigurd Bernardus Angenent is a Dutch-born mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Angenent works on partial differential equations and dynamical systems, with his recent research focusing on heat equation and diffusion equation. The Angenent torus and Angenent ovals are special solutions to the mean curvature flow published by Angenent in 1992; the Angenent torus remains self-similar as it collapses to a point under the flow, and the Angenent ovals are the only compact convex ancient solutions other than circles for the curve-shortening flow.

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