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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3651

Robert Fortet

#56593

Overall Influence

1912 - 1998 (86 years)

Robert Fortet was a French mathematician working on analysis. His doctoral advisor was Maurice René Fréchet. Fortet was a professor at the University of Caen and at the University of Paris. Some of his Ph.D. students in Paris were Egon Balas, Jyotiprasad Medhi and Jacques Neveu.

#3652

Paul Deheuvels

#44685

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Paul Deheuvels is a French statistician. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Career Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels. Normalien , agrégé de mathématiques , doctor in mathematical sciences , he has been professor of statistics at the Pierre-et-Marie Curie University since 1974. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in November 2000 .

#3653

William Arthur Kirk

#69508

Overall Influence

William Arthur Kirk was an American mathematician. His research interests include nonlinear functional analysis, the geometry of Banach spaces and metric spaces. In particular, he has made notable contributions to the fixed point theory of metric spaces; for example, he is one of the two namesakes of the Caristi-Kirk fixed point theorem of 1976. He is also known for the Kirk theorem of 1964.

#3654

Louis Boutet de Monvel

#52100

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Louis Boutet de Monvel was a French mathematician who worked on functional analysis. He was a student of Laurent Schwartz in Paris and was professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was married to Anne Boutet de Monvel, also a mathematician.

#3655

Frederick R. Cohen

#69219

Overall Influence

1945 - 2022 (77 years)

Frederick Ronald Cohen was an American mathematician working in algebraic topology. Education and career Fred Cohen was born in 1945 in Chicago. He received a BA from Brandeis University in 1967 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. He taught at the University of Northern Illinois until 1979 and then at the University of Kentucky. In 1989, he settled at the University of Rochester, where he spent the rest of his career.

#3656

Harold Weitzner

#72359

Overall Influence

Harold Weitzner is an American applied mathematician and physicist whose primary research is plasma physics. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and has served as Director of the Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Division at Courant since 1981, succeeding Harold Grad. He has published over 120 research articles on the topics of plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics, fluid mechanics, fractional equations and kinetics, and chaos.

#3657

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram

#55935

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#3658

Bernold Fiedler

Bernold Fiedler

#78637

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Bernold Fiedler is a German mathematician, specializing in nonlinear dynamics. Fiedler received a Diploma from Heidelberg University in 1980 for his thesis Ein Räuber-Beute-System mit zwei time lags and his doctorate with his thesis Stabilitätswechsel und globale Hopf-Verzweigung , written under the direction of Willi Jäger. Fiedler is a professor at the Institute for Mathematics of the Free University of Berlin.

#3659

Angus Ellis Taylor

Angus Ellis Taylor

#67626

Overall Influence

1911 - 1999 (88 years)

Angus Ellis Taylor was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system. He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard summa cum laude in 1933 and his PhD at Caltech in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on analytic functions. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at UCLA, whose mathematics department he later chaired . Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, Advanced Calculus , bec...

#3660

John Pollard

#41981

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

John M. Pollard is a British mathematician who has invented algorithms for the factorization of large numbers and for the calculation of discrete logarithms. His factorization algorithms include the rho, p − 1, and the first version of the special number field sieve, which has since been improved by others.

#3661

Cynthia Rudin

#21704

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Cynthia Diane Rudin is an American computer scientist and statistician specializing in machine learning and known for her work in interpretable machine learning. She is the director of the Interpretable Machine Learning Lab at Duke University, where she is a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, statistical science, and biostatistics and bioinformatics. In 2022, she won the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for her work on the importance of transparency f...

#3662

Bianca Viray

#67789

Overall Influence

Bianca L. Viray is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She works in arithmetic geometry, which is a blend of algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.

#3663

Andrea R. Nahmod

#76200

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Andrea Rica Nahmod is a mathematician at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is known for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations and other areas of nonlinear analysis. Career Nahmod received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991. She went to work as a research fellow at Macquarie University from 1992 to 1994, followed by positions at University of Texas, Austin, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, before coming to work at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998.

#3664

Adele Cutler

#29676

Overall Influence

Adele Cutler is a statistician known as one of the developers of archetypal analysis and of the random forest technique for ensemble learning. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Utah State University.

#3665

René Schoof

#33327

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

René Schoof is a mathematician from the Netherlands who works in number theory, arithmetic geometry, and coding theory. He received his PhD in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam with Hendrik Lenstra . He is now a professor at the University Tor Vergata in Rome.

#3666

Christoph Schwab

#66389

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Christoph Schwab is a German applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis of partial differential equations and boundary integral equations. Education and career He studied mathematics from 1982 to 1985 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. By means of a Fulbright Scholarship, from 1985 he studied at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received his PhD in 1989. His thesis Dimensional Reduction for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems was written under the supervision of Ivo Babuška. Schwab was a postdoc for the academic year 1989–1990 at London's University of Westminster.

#3667

Tamara Broderick

#52445

Overall Influence

Tamara Ann Broderick is an American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on machine learning and Bayesian inference. Education and early career Broderick is from Parma Heights, Ohio. She attended Laurel School and graduated in 2003. Whilst at high school she took part in the inaugural Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's Technology Program. She studied mathematics at Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in 2007. She was a Marshall scholar, allowing her to pursue graduate research at the University of Cambridge. She was a runner-up in the Association for Women in Mathematics Alice T.

#3668

Bas Edixhoven

#70176

Overall Influence

1962 - 2022 (60 years)

Sebastiaan Johan Edixhoven was a Dutch mathematician who worked in arithmetic geometry. He was a professor at University of Rennes 1 and Leiden University. Education Bas Edixhoven was born on 12 March 1962 in Leiden, Netherlands. Edixhoven graduated from in Zoetermeer in 1980. He then studied at Utrecht University where he graduated with a master's degree in pure mathematics cum laude in 1985 and a PhD in mathematics in 1989, both under the direction of Frans Oort. His thesis was about modular curves.

#3669

David E. Muller

#23197

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

David Eugene Muller was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Illinois , after which he became an emeritus professor, and was an adjunct professor of mathematics at the New Mexico State University . Muller received his BS in 1947 and his PhD in 1951 in physics from Caltech; an honorary PhD was conferred by the University of Paris in 1989. He was the inventor of the Muller C-element , a device used to implement asynchronous circuitry in electronic computers. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller codes. He discovered the codes, and Irving S.

#3670

Markus Owen

#66863

Overall Influence

Markus Roger Owen is an applied mathematician working in a diverse field of subjects. This has included research into macrophage-tumour interactions, neural field theories, juxtacrine intercellular signalling, the effect of predation on biological invasions, mode-locking of periodically stimulated bursting neurons, lung ventilation and rheumatoid arthritis. Owen is currently a Professor in applied mathematics at the University of Nottingham's School of Mathematical Sciences.

#3671

Mikhail Shlyomovich Birman

#70929

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Mikhail Shlyomovich Birman was a Russian mathematician and university professor. His research included functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. In particular, he did research in the fields of scattering theory, operators in Hilbert spaces and the spectral theory of differential operators.

#3672

Paul Linden

#56945

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Paul Frederick Linden is a mathematician specialising in fluid dynamics. He was the third G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, inaugural Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering at the UC San Diego and a fellow of Downing College.

#3673

You-Dong Liang

#47531

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

You-Dong Liang is a mathematician and educator, best known for his contributions in geometric modeling and the Liang-Barsky algorithm. Education and teaching You-Dong Liang was born on July 19, 1935, in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. Liang pursued his graduate degree in Fudan University, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Su Buqing and specialized in geometric theory. After graduating in 1960, he joined the mathematics teaching faculty at Zhejiang University, where he actively promoted the development of geometric design and graphics. From 1984–1990, he was the chairman of th...

#3674

Kurt Johansson

#75474

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Kurt Johansson is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory. Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

#3675

Vladimir Dragović

Vladimir Dragović

#72208

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Vladimir Dragović is Professor and Head of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to this he was a Full Research Professor at Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the founder and president of the Dynamical Systems group and co-president of The Centre for Dynamical Systems, Geometry and Combinatorics of the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

#3676

Esther Arkin

#65575

Overall Influence

Esther M. Arkin is an Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include operations research, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms. She is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University. At Stony Brook, she also directs the undergraduate program in applied mathematics and statistics, and is an affiliated faculty member with the department of computer science.

#3677

John E. Dennis

#51591

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

John Emory Dennis, Jr. is an American mathematician who has made major contributions in mathematical optimization. Dennis is currently a Noah Harding professor emeritus and research professor in the department of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research interests include optimization in engineering design. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#3678

Renu C. Laskar

#58099

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Renu Chakravarti Laskar is an Indian-born American mathematician, specializing in graph theory. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematical sciences at Clemson University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962. Renu Chakravarti Laskar's life was marked by a personal loss when her husband, Amulya L. Laskar, a distinguished professor of physics, died in 1991. His obituary in The New York Times recognized his contributions to physics and his role at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

#3679

John Fitch

#52619

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John Peter Fitch is a computer scientist, mathematician and composer, who has worked on relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and Lisp. Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader for audio programming language Csound, having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd, which developed the Norcroft C compiler.

#3680

Pascale Garaud

#49701

Overall Influence

Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently serves as the department chair.

#3681

V. Frederick Rickey

#66346

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Vincent Frederick Rickey is an American logician and historian of mathematics. Rickey received his B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. His Ph.D. was entitled An Axiomatic Theory of Syntax. He joined the academic staff of Ohio's Bowling Green State University in 1968, became there a full professor in 1979, and retired there in 1998. He was then a mathematics professor at the United States Military Academy from 1998 until his retirement in 2011. He was a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame , Indiana University at South Bend , the University of Vermont , and the United States Military Academy .

#3682

Beresford Parlett

#67069

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Beresford Neill Parlett is an English applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and scientific computation. Education and career Parlett received in 1955 his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford and then worked in his father's timber business for three years. From 1958 to 1962 he was a graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962. He was a postdoc for two years at Manhattan's Courant Institute and one year at the Stevens Institute of Technology. From 1965 until his retirement, he was a faculty member of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley.

#3683

Brad Osgood

#60950

Overall Influence

Brad Osgood is a Professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, and, by courtesy, faculty in the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Osgood is affiliated faculty with the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

#3684

Irene M. Gamba

#49392

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Irene Martínez Gamba is an Argentine–American mathematician. She works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the W.A. Tex Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences and is head of the Applied Mathematics Group in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.

#3685

Elja Arjas

#65330

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Elja Arjas is a Finnish mathematician and statistician. He is professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki. Education and career Arjas studied mathematics at the University of Helsinki and graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1964. He graduated with a licentiate in mathematics and statistics in 1970 and received his doctorate in mathematics in 1972, under the supervision of Olli Lokki and Gustav Elfving. He was a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain until 1973, before moving back to Finland.

#3686

Vicky Neale

#67400

Overall Influence

Victoria Neale was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College. Her research specialty was number theory. The author of the 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers, she was interviewed on several BBC radio programs as a mathematics expert. In addition, she wrote for The Conversation and The Guardian. Her other educational and outreach activities included lecturing at the PROMYS Europe high-school program and helping to organize the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad.

#3687

Kari Hag

#65809

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Kari Jorun Blakkisrud Hag is a Norwegian mathematician known for her research in complex analysis on quasicircles and quasiconformal mappings, and for her efforts for gender equality in mathematics. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . With Frederick Gehring she is the author of the book The Ubiquitous Quasidisk .

#3688

Wim Cohen

#60601

Overall Influence

1923 - 2000 (77 years)

Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory. Cohen was born in a Jewish family, as the son of Benjamin Cohen and Aaltje Klein. Having acquired an autodidact knowledge of mathematics while in hiding during World War II, Cohen got an Engineer's degree and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at Delft University, on a dissertation titled Stress Calculations in Helicoidal Shells and Propeller Blades. He worked as teletraffic engineer with the Telecommunications group at Philips , at the applied mathematics department at Delft and University of Utrecht .

#3689

Frank Merle

#68046

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Frank Merle is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Education and career After graduation from the École normale supérieure , Merle received in 1987 his Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI under Henri Berestycki with thesis Contributions a l'etude de certaines equations aux derivees partielles non lineaires de la physique mathematique. He became a researcher for CNRS at ENS. In 1989/90 he was an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the University of New York. Since 1991 Merle has been a professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise.

#3690

Sun Tzu

#64874

Overall Influence

#3691

Inez Fung

#30317

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Inez Fung is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the department of earth and planetary science and the department of environmental science, policy and management. She is also the co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

#3692

Paul Dedecker

#50736

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Paul Dedecker was a Belgian mathematician who worked primarily in topology on the subjects of nonabelian cohomology, general category theory, variational calculus and its relations to homological algebra, exterior calculus on manifolds and mathematical physics.

#3693

Vladimir Retakh

#67659

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas. Biography Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Beginning as an undergraduate Retakh regularly attended lectures and seminars at the Moscow State University most notably the Gelfand seminars. He obtained his PhD in 1973 under the mentorship of Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov. He joined the Gelfand group in 1986.

#3694

Nizar Touzi

#64671

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Nizar Touzi is a Tunisian-French mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at École polytechnique. His research focuses on analysis, statistics and algebra. He is being known for publications on optimization and stochastic control.

#3695

Ed Corrigan

#65096

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Francis Edward Corrigan FRS is a British mathematician, theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of York. Life He attended St Bede's College, Manchester 1957-65 and earned a BA and PhD at the University of Cambridge. He was Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences Durham University 1972–74, CERN Fellow 1974–75, and worked at Durham from 1976 to 1999 . He then moved to the University of York where he was Head of Department of Mathematics 1999–2004, 2005–2007 and 2011–2015. He was Principal of Collingwood College, Durham, from 2008 to 2011. His publicati...

#3696

François Labourie

François Labourie

#55123

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

François Labourie is a French mathematician who has made various contributions to geometry, including pseudoholomorphic curves, Anosov diffeomorphism, and convex geometry. In a series of papers with Yves Benoist and Patrick Foulon, he solved a conjecture on Anosov's flows in compact contact manifolds.

#3697

Alexander Novikov

#67365

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Alexander Novikov is a professor Emeritus at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this current appointment in 1999 he was Leading Research Fellow at the Steklov Mathematical Institute and Senior Lecture at the University of Newcastle .

#3698

John Trevor Stuart

#63965

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Trevor Stuart FRS is a mathematician and senior research investigator at Imperial College London working in theoretical fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows and nonlinear partial differential equations.

#3699

Vladimir Rvachev

#28534

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

Vladimir Logvinovich Rvachev, ; 21 October, 1926 - 26 April, 2005 was a Soviet and Ukrainian applied mathematician and engineering scientist. Early life and education Rvachev, the son of a teacher, began studying at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1943, but the occupation of his home town by the German armed forces forced him to flee and sign up for military service. After the war Rvachev was able to resume his studies at the University of Lviv, from where he graduated in 1952 and where, three years later, attained his first doctorate with a work on elastic theory. Thereafter, he was in charge of the Department of Higher Mathematics at the Berdyansk Pedagogic Institute until 1963.

#3700

Horst Schubert

#67601

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Horst Schubert was a German mathematician. Schubert was born in Chemnitz and studied mathematics and physics at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Zürich and Heidelberg, where in 1948 he received his PhD under Herbert Seifert with thesis Die eindeutige Zerlegbarkeit eines Knotens in Primknoten. From 1948 to 1956 Schubert was an assistant in Heidelberg, where he received in 1952 his habilitation qualification. From 1959 he was a professor extraordinarius and from 1962 a professor ordinarius at the University of Kiel. From 1969 to 1984 he was a professor at the University of Düsseldorf.

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