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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3251

Thaleia Zariphopoulou

#52267

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Thaleia Zariphopoulou is a Greek-American mathematician specializing in mathematical finance. She is the Chair in Mathematics and the V. H. Neuhaus Centennial Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin.

#3252

Viktor Maslov

#32720

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Viktor Pavlovich Maslov was a Russian mathematical physicist. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his doctorate in physico-mathematical sciences in 1957. His main fields of interest were quantum theory, idempotent analysis, non-commutative analysis, superfluidity, superconductivity, and phase transitions. He was editor-in-chief of Mathematical Notes and Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics.

#3253

Joachim Weickert

#16995

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Joachim Weickert is a German professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University. In 2010, Weickert was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in image processing.

#3254

Moti Gitik

#70834

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Moti Gitik is a mathematician, working in set theory, who is professor at the Tel-Aviv University. He was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congresses of Mathematicians, and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

#3255

Frédéric Pham

#51752

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Frédéric Pham is a Vietnamese-French mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is known for the Brieskorn-Pham manifoldss . Education and career Pham studied from 1957 to 1959 at the École polytechnique. From 1961 to 1969 he worked at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, where he developed his doctoral thesis. In addition, during those years, he attended the seminar conducted by René Thom at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques . In 1969 Pham received his Ph.D. with supervisor Raymond Stora from Saclay with thesis Singularités des processus de diffusion multiple. He became in 1970 a professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and retired there in 2001 as professor emeritus.

#3256

Collette Coullard

#48987

Overall Influence

Collette René Coullard is an American mathematician, industrial engineer, operations researcher, and matroid theorist known for her research on combinatorial optimization problems that combine facility location and stock management. Formerly a professor at Purdue University, the University of Waterloo, Northwestern University, and Lake Superior State University, she has retired to become a professor emeritus.

#3257

Iain M. Johnstone

Iain M. Johnstone

#65581

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Iain Murray Johnstone is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Education Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1977 he graduated in mathematics at the Australian National University, specializing in pure mathematics and statistics. Later he obtained an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University in 1981 under Lawrence D. Brown with the dissertation titled, Admissible Estimation of Poisson Means, Birth–Death Processes and Discrete Dirichlet Problems.

#3258

Anton Zorich

#63968

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Anton V. Zorich is a Russian mathematician at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu. He is the son of Vladimir A. Zorich. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University under the supervision of Sergei Novikov.

#3259

Yvette Amice

#57088

Overall Influence

1936 - 1993 (57 years)

Yvette Amice was a French mathematician whose research concerned number theory and -adic analysis. She was president of the Société mathématique de France. Education Amice studied mathematics at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres, beginnining in 1956 and earning her agrégation in 1959. She became an assistant at the Faculté des sciences de Paris until 1964, when she completed a state doctorate under the supervision of Charles Pisot. Her dissertation was Interpolation p-adique [p-adic interpolation].

#3260

Maria Bruna

#50927

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Maria Bruna Estrach is an applied mathematician whose interests include stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena with applications in mathematical biology and industry. She is affiliated with the University of Cambridge, where she is a university lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

#3261

Jacqueline Ferrand

#27946

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Jacqueline Lelong-Ferrand was a French mathematician who worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. She taught at universities in Caen, Lille, and Paris.

#3262

Hoàng Xuân Sính

#40704

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Hoàng Xuân Sính is a Vietnamese mathematician, a student of Grothendieck, the first female mathematics professor in Vietnam, the founder of , and a recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

#3263

Sijue Wu

#66156

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Sijue Wu is a Chinese-American mathematician who works as the Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Her research involves the mathematics of water waves.

#3264

Roland Fraïssé

#10933

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

Roland Fraïssé was a French mathematical logician. Life Fraïssé received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1953. In his thesis, Fraïssé used the back-and-forth method to determine whether two model-theoretic structures were elementarily equivalent. This method of determining elementary equivalence was later formulated as the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game.

#3265

Regina Tyshkevich

#66758

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Regina Iosifovna Tyshkevich was a Belarusian mathematician, an expert in graph theory, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, professor of the Belarusian State University. Her main scientific interests included Intersection graphs, degree sequences, and the reconstruction conjecture. She was also known for an independent introduction and investigation of the class of split graphs and for her contributions to line graphs of hypergraphs.

#3266

Paulette Libermann

#42265

Overall Influence

1919 - 2007 (88 years)

Paulette Libermann was a French mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Early life and education Libermann was one of three sisters born to a family of Russian-Ukrainian Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants to Paris.

#3267

Lexing Ying

#37921

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Lexing Ying is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He specializes in scientific computing and numerical analysis. In particular, his research concerns the design of numerical algorithms for problems in scientific computing.

#3268

Marjorie Batchelor

#61198

Overall Influence

Marjorie Blake Batchelor-Winter is an American mathematician known for her work on coalgebras and supermanifolds. She is an emeritus staff member in the department of pure mathematics and mathematical statistics at the University of Cambridge in England, where she was formerly the graduate education officer and director of the Cambridge Mathematics Placements summer programme.

#3269

Charles Nicholas Hales

#57353

Overall Influence

1935 - 2005 (70 years)

Charles Nicholas "Nick" Hales was an English physician, biochemist, diabetologist, pathologist, and professor of clinical biochemistry Biography After education at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford, C. Nicholas Hales matriculated in 1953 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1956. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BChir in 1959. At University College Hospital he was a house physician under Max Rosenheim. Hales returned to the University of Cambridge for graduate study in biochemistry. He received in 1964 his PhD under the superv...

#3270

Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak

#50302

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1970 with the dissertation Some New Results in PBIBD Designs and Combinatorics. S. S. Shrikhande was her advisor. After completing her doctorate, she remained on the faculty at the university, and eventually served as department head.

#3271

Alvany Rocha

#60436

Overall Influence

Alvany Rocha-Caridi is a mathematician at the City University of New York who specializes in the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, and who is particularly known for her computation of the characters of the Virasoro algebra.

#3272

Les Hatton

#19310

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Les Hatton is a British-born computer scientist and mathematician most notable for his work on failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge 1967–1970 and the University of Manchester where he received a Master of Science degree in electrostatic waves in relativistic plasma and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 for his work on computational fluid dynamics in tornadoes.

#3273

Lee-Jen Wei

#20775

Overall Influence

Lee-Jen Wei is a Taiwanese-American professor of biostatistics at Harvard University. Career He was graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University's Mathematics Department in 1970. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975. He has been a tenured Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University since 1991 and was the co-director of the Bioinformatics Core at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2003 to 2007. From 2003 to 2004, he served as the acting chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University. Under his supervision, the department successfully converted the doctor of science degree program in biostatistics to a conventional Ph.D.

#3274

Kane S. Yee

#39047

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Kane Shee-Gong Yee is a Chinese-American electrical engineer and mathematician. He is best known for introducing the finite-difference time-domain method in 1966. His research interests include numerical electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

#3275

Onno J. Boxma

#58228

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Onno Johan Boxma is a Dutch mathematician, and Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for several contributions to queueing theory and applied probability theory. Biography Born in The Hague, Boxma earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics at Delft University of Technology in 1974, and his Ph.D. cum laude in Mathematic from Utrecht University in 1977 on the dissertation entitled "Analysis of Models for Tandem Queues", advised by Wim Cohen.

#3276

Robert C. Elston

#57756

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Robert C. Elston is a British born statistical geneticist and distinguished professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. He is one of the eponyms of the Elston–Stewart algorithm and Haseman–Elston regression.

#3277

Mason Porter

#24357

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Mason A. Porter is an American mathematician and physicist currently at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

#3278

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#57385

Overall Influence

1912 - 1992 (80 years)

Ralph Philip Boas Jr. was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis. Biography He was born in Walla Walla, Washington, the son of an English professor at Whitman College, but moved frequently as a child; his younger sister, Marie Boas Hall, later to become a historian of science, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father had become a high school teacher. He was home-schooled until the age of eight, began his formal schooling in the sixth grade, and graduated from high school while still only 15. Af...

#3279

Gareth Roberts

#51067

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Gareth Owen Roberts FRS FLSW is a statistician and applied probabilist. He is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at the University of Warwick. He is an established authority on the stability of Markov chains, especially applied to Markov chain Monte Carlo theory methodology for a wide range of latent statistical models with applications in spatial statistics, infectious disease epidemiology and finance.

#3280

George Logemann

#18282

Overall Influence

1938 - 2012 (74 years)

George Wahl Logemann was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He became well known for the Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland algorithm to solve Boolean satisfiability problems. He also contributed to the field of computer music.

#3281

Michael M. Richter

Michael M. Richter

#17356

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Michael M. Richter was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Richter is well known for his career in mathematical logic, in particular non-standard analysis, and in artificial intelligence, in particular in knowledge-based systems and case-based reasoning . He is worldwide known as pioneer in case-based reasoning.

#3282

Michael Benedicks

#70925

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Michael Benedicks, born 1949, is a Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1980. His doctoral advisor was Professor Harold S. Shapiro. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1989. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1991.

#3283

Frank Anscombe

#34595

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Francis John Anscombe was an English statistician. Education and career Born in Hove in England, Anscombe was educated at Trinity College at Cambridge University. After serving in the Second World War, he joined Rothamsted Experimental Station for two years before returning to Cambridge as a lecturer.

#3284

Caroline Uhler

#34259

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Caroline Uhler is a Swiss statistician working in the field of machine learning and applications in genomics. Her research focuses on developing methods for causal inference to infer regulatory relationships from different data modalities . She is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she is a Core Institute Member at the Broad Institute, where she directs the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center.

#3285

Marilda Sotomayor

#42513

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor is a Brazilian mathematician and economist known for her research on auction theory and stable matchings. She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Society of Econometrics, and Brazilian Society of Mathematics. She was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003 and international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

#3286

Christopher Field

#40688

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Christopher B. Field is an American scientist and researcher, who has contributed to the field of climate change. The author of more than 200 scientific publications, Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. His work includes major field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change, integrative studies on the global carbon cycle, and assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture. Field's work with models includes studies on the global distribution of carbon sources and sinks, and studies on enviro...

#3287

Christian Lubich

Christian Lubich

#58405

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Christian Lubich is an Austrian mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis. Education and career After secondary education at the Bundesrealgymnasium in Innsbruck, Lubich studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck from 1977 to graduation with Magister degree in 1981. He was from 1979 to 1981 a student assistant in Innsbruck and from 1981 to 1983 a research associate in the Sonderforschungsbereich 123 Stochastische mathematische Modelle at the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Innsbruck with dissertation Zur Stabilität linearer Mehrschrittverfahren für Volterra-Gleichungen under Ernst Hairer and habilitated there in 1987.

#3288

Antonella Zanna

#57601

Overall Influence

Antonella Zanna Munthe-Kaas is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research includes work on numerical integration of differential equations and applications to medical imaging. She is a professor and head of the mathematics department at the University of Bergen in Norway.

#3289

Jaak Peetre

#72627

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

Jaak Peetre was an Estonian-born Swedish mathematician. He is known for the Peetre theorem and Peetre's inequality. Biography Jaak Peetre's father was Arthur Peetre , an Estonian jurist, historian, archivist, and from 1941 to 1942 mayor of Pärnu. Jaak Peetre went to Sweden with his parents and brother in 1944. At Lund University he graduated with BSc in 1956 and PhD in 1959. His thesis advisor was Åke Pleijel. At Lund University, Peetre was an assistant professor from 1956 to 1959, an associate professor from 1960 to 1963, and full professor from 1963 to 1988. He was briefly in 1988 a visitin...

#3290

Vladimir Lefebvre

#37256

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Vladimir Alexandrovich Lefebvre was a mathematical psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. He created equations to predict the large-scale consequences of individual actions. Among the parameters in the equations are the self image of the individual and the action as perceived via this self-image. The result is a number expressing the probability that the individual in question will perform a specific action.

#3291

Ilse Fischer

#55480

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Ilse Fischer is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, connecting these topics to representation theory and statistical mechanics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna.

#3292

Erik Alfsen

#68736

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Erik Magnus Alfsen was a Norwegian mathematician. He is the author of Compact Convex Sets and Boundary Integrals, published in 1971. He was a board member of the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities for two years, and has also been involved in Nei til Atomvåpen and the Pugwash Conferences. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

#3293

Herbert A. Hauptman

Herbert A. Hauptman

#9167

Overall Influence

1917 - 2011 (94 years)

Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel ...

#3294

Jim Berger

#69394

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

James Orvis Berger is an American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian statistics and decision theory. He won the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the two highest awards in statistics, in 1985 at the age of 35. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1974. He was a faculty member in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University until 1997, at which time he moved to the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University, where he is currently the Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistics. He was also director of the Statistical and Applied Ma...

#3295

Maurice Sion

#63364

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Maurice Sion was an American and Canadian mathematician, specializing in measure theory and game theory. He is known for Sion's minimax theorem. Biography Sion received from New York University his B.A. in 1947 and his M.A. in 1948. He received from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 his Ph.D. under the supervision of Anthony Morse with thesis On the existence of functions having given partial derivatives on Whitney's curve. Sion was a member of the mathematics faculty at U.C. Berkeley until 1960, when he immigrated to Canada with his wife Emilie and his two children born in the U.S.A.

#3296

Michael Shelley

#26963

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Michael J. Shelley is an American applied mathematician who works on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology. This has included free-boundary problems in fluids and materials science, singularity formation in partial differential equations, modeling visual perception in the primary visual cortex, dynamics of complex and active fluids, cellular biophysics, and fluid-structure interaction problems such as the flapping of flags, stream-lining in nature, and flapping flight. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Courant Institute's Applied Mathemat...

#3297

Aparna Higgins

#48676

Overall Influence

Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research. Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, including graph pebbling and line graphs. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Dayton.

#3298

Esmail Babolian

#46313

Overall Influence

Esmail Babolian is an Iranian numerical analyst, best known as the pioneer professor of numerical analysis in Iran. He has published over 60 international papers in different areas of numerical analysis. Recently he and Mohebalizadeh have developed a fast numerical method for solving differential equations with high accuracy. Babolian is member of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.

#3299

Abdulalim A. Shabazz

Abdulalim A. Shabazz

#36156

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz was an African American Professor of Mathematics. He received the National Association of Mathematicians Distinguished Service Award for his years of mentoring and teaching excellence. President of the United States Bill Clinton awarded Shabazz a National Mentor award in September 2000.

#3300

Erica Klarreich

#58462

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Erica Gail Klarreich is an American mathematician, journalist and science popularizer. Early life and education Klarreich's father was a professor of mathematics, and her mother was a mathematics teacher.

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