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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3201

Zeev Rudnick

#57811

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Zeev Rudnick or Ze'ev Rudnick is a mathematician, specializing in number theory and in mathematical physics, notably quantum chaos. Rudnick is a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Cissie and Aaron Beare Chair in Number Theory at Tel Aviv University.

#3202

Martin T. Barlow

#58843

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992. History Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow and his wife Yvonne. He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora , through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow . In 1994 he married Colleen McLaughlin.

#3203

Xiao-Li Meng

#39557

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Xiao-Li Meng is a Chinese American statistician and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001. He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology.

#3204

Karen Willcox

#51026

Overall Influence

Karen Elizabeth Willcox is an aerospace engineer and computational scientist best known for her work on reduced-order modeling and the study of multi-fidelity methods. She is currently the director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.

#3205

Eliahu I. Jury

#36192

Overall Influence

1923 - 2020 (97 years)

Eliahu Ibrahim Jury was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his the E.E. degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine , in 1947, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1949, and the Sc.D. degree degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Miami.

#3206

Brian Blank

#61031

Overall Influence

1953 - 2018 (65 years)

Brian Blank was a Canadian/American associate professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. Blank was born in Montreal, Quebec, and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from McGill University. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in 1980 from Cornell University, with Anthony Knapp as advisor. His 20th century work involved harmonic analysis. He also co-authored a pair of calculus textbooks with his Washington University colleague, Steven Krantz. Titled Calculus: Single Variable and Calculus: Multivariable, the textbooks and workbooks used to be used in calculus classe...

#3207

Alexander Abian

#39029

Overall Influence

1923 - 1999 (76 years)

Alexander Abian was an Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician who taught for over 25 years at Iowa State University and became notable for his frequent posts to various Usenet newsgroups, and his advocacy for the destruction of the moon.

#3208

Jan Vondrák

#66912

Overall Influence

Jan Vondrák is a Czech applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 2015. He was a research staff member in the theory group at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2009 to 2015.

#3209

Kevin McCrimmon

#65302

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Kevin Mor McCrimmon is an American mathematician, specializing in Jordan algebras. He is known for his introduction of quadratic Jordan algebras in 1966. McCrimmon attended secondary school in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and then received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1960 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965 with thesis Norms and Noncommutative Jordan Algebras supervised by Nathan Jacobson. McCrimmon spent his final year as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, when Nathan Jacobson spent a year of unpaid leave visiting Chicago and Japan for the academic year 1964–1965.

#3210

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee

#56607

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, FNASc, known as S. P. Mukherjee , is an Indian statistician and the former Centenary Professor of Statistics at the University of Calcutta. He is currently a visiting professor at University of Calcutta after retiring formally as the Centenary Professor of Statistics in 2004. He is currently serving as the Chairman of Expert Group conducting All-India surveys under the Labour Bureau.

#3211

Ciro Ciliberto

#42204

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ciro Ciliberto is an Italian mathematician. Career Ciliberto graduated in Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II in 1973. Assistant professor at the University of Naples Federico II from 1974 to 1980. Professor of Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II since 1977 to 1978 and of Algebraic Geometry from 1978 to 1980. Extraordinary professor of Higher Mathematics at the University of Lecce in 1980-1981. Subsequently he was first extraordinary and then full professor of Algebraic Geometry at the University of Naples Federico II from 1981 to 1985. Then he was professor of Higher Geometry at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

#3212

Zoé Chatzidakis

#54970

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Zoé Maria Chatzidakis is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Her research concerns model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

#3213

Olof B. Widlund

#37650

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Olof B. Widlund , is a Swedish-American mathematician. He is well known for his leading role in and fundamental contributions to domain decomposition methods. He received his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1966 and is professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of New York University.

#3214

David Broomhead

David Broomhead

#32788

Overall Influence

1950 - 2014 (64 years)

David S. Broomhead was a British mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and was professor of applied mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. Education Broomhead was born on 13 November 1950 in Leeds. He attended Aireborough Grammar School and, after spending a year teaching in Uganda, Broomhead moved to Merton College, Oxford, where he read chemistry for his first degree. He remained in Oxford for his D.Phil., researching quantum mechanics under the supervision of Peter Atkins. He completed his thesis Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields in 1976.

#3215

Stefano Bianchini

#65263

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Stefano Bianchini is an Italian mathematician known for his research on partial differential equations. He won the 2004 EMS Prize for his contributions to the theory of discontinuous solutions of one-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws.

#3216

Stanisław Świerczkowski

#52763

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Stanisław Świerczkowski was a Polish mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the Non-Tetratorus Theorem. Early life and education Stanisław Świerczkowski was born in Toruń, Poland. His parents were divorced during his infancy. When war broke out his father was captured in Soviet-controlled Poland and murdered in the 1940 Katyń Massacre. He belonged to the Polish nobility; Świerczkowski's mother belonged to the upper middle class and would have probably suffered deportation and murder by the Nazis. However she had German connections and was able to gain relatively privileged class 2 Volksliste citizenship.

#3217

Martin Schechter

#69852

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Martin Schechter was an American mathematician whose work concerned mathematical analysis . He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine. Schechter did his undergraduate studies at the City University of New York.

#3218

Hans Riesel

#57481

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Hans Ivar Riesel was a Swedish mathematician who discovered the 18th Mersenne prime in 1957, using the computer BESK: this prime is 23217-1 and consists of 969 digits. He held the record for the largest known prime from 1957 to 1961, when Alexander Hurwitz discovered a larger one. Riesel also discovered the Riesel numbers as well as developing the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test. After having worked at the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery, he was awarded his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1969 for his thesis Contributions to numerical number theory, and in the same year joined the Royal Ins...

#3219

Mikhail Lyubich

Mikhail Lyubich

#68454

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mikhail Lyubich is a mathematician who made important contributions to the fields of holomorphic dynamics and chaos theory. Lyubich graduated from Kharkiv University with a master's degree in 1980, and obtained his PhD from Tashkent University in 1984. Currently, he is a Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University and the Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook. From 2002-2008, he also held a position of Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.

#3220

Dieter Jungnickel

Dieter Jungnickel

#66680

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Dieter Jungnickel is a German mathematician specializing in combinatorics. In 1971 Jungnickel entered the Free University of Berlin, graduating in 1975. He studied the finite difference method with Hanfried Lenz and completed his Habilitation in 1978. He became a professor of mathematics at University of Giessen in 1980.

#3221

Ron Donagi

#70906

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Ron Yehuda Donagi is an American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry and string theory. Career Donagi received a Ph.D. in 1977 under the supervision of Phillip Griffiths from Harvard University . Currently, he is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

#3222

Gisbert Hasenjaeger

Gisbert Hasenjaeger

#23009

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Gisbert F. R. Hasenjaeger was a German mathematical logician. Independently and simultaneously with Leon Henkin in 1949, he developed a new proof of the completeness theorem of Kurt Gödel for predicate logic. He worked as an assistant to Heinrich Scholz at Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine.

#3223

Keti Tenenblat

#59618

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Keti Tenenblat is a Turkish-Brazilian mathematician working on Riemannian geometry, the applications of differential geometry to partial differential equations, and Finsler geometry. Together with Chuu-Lian Terng, she generalized Backlund theorem to higher dimensions.

#3224

Rachel Roberts

#62739

Overall Influence

Rachel Roberts is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology, including foliations and contact geometry. She is the Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.

#3225

Robert J. Weber

#17835

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Robert J. Weber is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Biography Education Weber received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1969 from Princeton University, and both his MS in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1974 in operations research from Cornell University.

#3226

Pengfei Guan

#67046

Overall Influence

Pengfei Guan is a Canadian mathematician and Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis. He is a professor of mathematics at McGill University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Biography Guan graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. From 1982 to 1984, Guan was a graduate student at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. From 1984 to 1985, Guan studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Guan later continued his studies at Princeton University. Guan obtained his MS in 1986 and his PhD in 19...

#3227

Sergey Bobkov

#57894

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Sergey Bobkov is a mathematician. Currently Bobkov is a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He was born in Vorkuta and graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in Leningrad State University. In 1988 he earned PhD in Mathematics and Physics and in 1997 earned his Doctor of Science. During 1998–2000 Bobkov held positions at Syktyvkar State University, Russia. From 1995 to 1996 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany. He spent the summers of 2001 and 2002 as an EPSRC Fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Bobkov was award...

#3228

Bogdan Suceavă

#39434

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Bogdan Suceavă is a Romanian-American mathematician and writer, working as professor of mathematics at California State University Fullerton. He is also a honorary research professor with the STAR-UBB Institute, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

#3229

Raphael Douady

#31203

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Raphael Douady is a French mathematician and economist. He holds the Robert Frey Endowed Chair for Quantitative Finance at Stony Brook, New York. He is a fellow of the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne , Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and academic director of the Laboratory of Excellence on Financial Regulation .

#3230

Amitai Regev

#46510

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Amitai Regev is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in ring theory. He is the Herman P. Taubman Professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972, under the direction of Shimshon Amitsur.

#3231

Takurō Mochizuki

Takurō Mochizuki

#45831

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Takurō Mochizuki is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University. Overview As a student at the University of Kyoto in 1994, Mochizuki left his undergraduate studies early to become a graduate student in mathematics at the same university. He completed his Ph.D. in 1999, and joined the faculty of Osaka City University, returning to Kyoto in 2004.

#3232

George Seber

#61029

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

George Arthur Frederick Seber is an Australian-born New Zealand statistician. Since his retirement from academic life, he has worked as a counsellor. Biography Born in Sydney in 1938, Seber emigrated to New Zealand with his family at the end of World War II. He attended the Auckland University College, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1960, and won a Commonwealth scholarship to undertake PhD in statistics at the University of Manchester. Completing his doctorate in 1963, he took up an assistant lectureship in statistics at the London School of Economics. In 1965 he and the s...

#3233

Eric Schechter

#48901

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Eric Schechter is an American mathematician, retired from Vanderbilt University with the title of professor emeritus. His interests started primarily in analysis but moved into mathematical logic. Schechter is best known for his 1996 book Handbook of Analysis and its Foundations, which provides a novel approach to mathematical analysis and related topics at the graduate level.

#3234

Rosemary A. Bailey

#43263

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Rosemary A. Bailey is a British statistician who works in the design of experiments and the analysis of variance and in related areas of combinatorial design, especially in association schemes. She has written books on the design of experiments, on association schemes, and on linear models in statistics.

#3235

Paul Glendinning

#43731

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Paul Glendinning is a professor of Applied Mathematics, in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester who is known for his work on dynamical systems, specifically models of the time-evolution of complex mathematical or physical processes. His main areas of research are bifurcation theory ; synchronization and blowout bifurcations; low-dimensional mapss; and quasi-periodically forced systems.

#3236

Robin Plackett

#54796

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Robin L. Plackett was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs. Early life and education Plackett attended Liverpool Collegiate School from 1932 to 1939. He then attended Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1942.

#3237

Saudi Arabia.

#72040

Overall Influence

#3238

Alejandro Adem

#48900

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Alejandro Adem is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Previously he was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008–2015 and during 2015-2019 was the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs.

#3239

James William Peter Hirschfeld

#60269

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

James William Peter Hirschfeld is an Australian mathematician, resident in the United Kingdom, specializing in combinatorial geometry and the geometry of finite fields. He is an emeritus professor and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Sussex.

#3240

John Brillhart

#54455

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

John David Brillhart was a mathematician who worked in number theory at the University of Arizona. Early life and education Brillhart was born on November 13, 1930, in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his A.B. in 1953, his M.A. in 1966, and his Ph.D. in 1967. His doctoral thesis in mathematics was supervised by D. H. Lehmer, with assistance from Leonard Carlitz.

#3241

Ralph McKenzie

#58656

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Ralph Nelson Whitfield McKenzie is an American mathematician, logician, and abstract algebraist. He received his doctorate from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1967. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#3242

Jerry L. Bona

#62346

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jerry Lloyd Bona is an American mathematician, known for his work in fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, and computational mathematics, and active in some other branches of pure and applied mathematics.

#3243

James J. Andrews

#58393

Overall Influence

1930 - 1998 (68 years)

James J. Andrews was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Florida State University who specialized in knot theory, topology, and group theory. Andrews was born March 18, 1930, in Seneca Falls, New York. He did his undergraduate studies at Hofstra College, and earned his doctorate in 1957 from the University of Georgia under the supervision of M. K. Fort, Jr. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Georgia, and the University of Washington before joining the FSU faculty in 1961. Andrews was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1963-64.

#3244

E. Mark Gold

#10695

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

E. Mark Gold is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He became well known for his article Language identification in the limit which pioneered a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers. Since 1999, an award of the conference on Algorithmic learning theory is named after him.

#3245

Ragni Piene

#49777

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Ragni Piene is a Norwegian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, with particular interest in enumerative results and intersection theory. Education and career After a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo in 1969 and a DEA from Université de Paris in 1970 Piene received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, advised by Steven Kleiman. Her dissertation was titled Plücker Formulas.

#3246

Elisabeth M. Werner

#62865

Overall Influence

Elisabeth M. Werner is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Case Western Reserve University, as associate director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and as maître de conférences at the Lille University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include convex geometry, functional analysis, probability theory, and their applications.

#3247

Alain Desrosières

#28270

Overall Influence

1940 - 2013 (73 years)

Alain Desrosières was a statistician, sociologist and historian of science in France, well known for his work in the history of statistics He is the author of The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning, published in 1993, translated into several languages, including English in 1998, and subsequently reviewed in the LRB in 2000. This described the origins of statistics as technical machinery for administration in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the attempts to measure human and economic development. The text is an account of the statistics and their use in abstr...

#3248

Nikolay Krylov

#72228

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Nicolai Vladimirovich Krylov is a Russian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, particularly stochastic partial differential equations and diffusion processes. Krylov studied at Lomonosov University, where he in 1966 under E. B. Dynkin attained a doctoral candidate title and in 1973 a Russian doctoral degree . He taught from 1966 to 1990 at the Lomonosov University and is since 1990 a professor at the University of Minnesota. At the beginning of his career he, in collaboration with Dynkin, worked on nonlinear stochastic control theory, making advances in the study of convex, nonlinear partial equations of 2nd order , which were examined with stochastic methods.

#3249

N. U. Prabhu

#50098

Overall Influence

1924 - 2022 (98 years)

Narahari Umanath Prabhu was an Indian-American mathematician, known for his contributions to operation research, in particular queueing theory. He did not seek a Ph.D., however he guided a number of Ph.Ds.

#3250

U. Narayan Bhat

#47091

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

U. Narayan Bhat is an Indian-born Mathematician, known for his contributions to queueing theory and reliability theory. Academic career He received a B.A. in mathematics and B.T. in education from the University of Madras, an M.A. in statistics from Karnatak University in Dharwar and Ph.D. in Mathematical statistics from the University of Western Australia on the dissertation Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior . He worked at Michigan State University , Case Western Reserve University , and Southern Methodist University . Bhat is a fellow of the Am...

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