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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3751

Kirsi Peltonen

#68381

Overall Influence

Kirsi Peltonen is a Finnish mathematician whose research interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art. She is a Senior University Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto University, and a docent at the University of Helsinki. Her work has included the design of an innovative interdisciplinary course on mathematics, art, and architecture, the creation of a major exhibit at the Heureka science center near Helsinki, and presentations on mathematics at Finnish schools.

#3752

Peter Smith

#51936

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Pete Smith is Professor of Soils and Global change at the University of Aberdeen where he directs the Scottish Climate Change Centre of Expertise, ClimateXChange. Research and career Smith's research investigates global change, soils, carbon sequestration, climate change and climate change mitigation. Since 1996, he has served as convening lead author, lead author and author for part of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a global ecosystem modeller with interests in agriculture, food...

#3753

Lawrence J. Rosenblum

Lawrence J. Rosenblum

#17897

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Lawrence Jay Rosenblum is an American mathematician, and Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the National Science Foundation. Career Rosenblum received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Ohio State University in 1971. From 1992 to 1994, he was Liaison Scientist for Computer Science at the Office of Naval Research European Office. From 1994 he has been Director of Virtual Reality Systems and Research at the Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory and Program Officer for Visualization and Computer Graphics at the Office of Naval Research for ten years. ...

#3754

Hanno Rund

#72123

Overall Influence

1925 - 1993 (68 years)

Hanno Rund was a German mathematician. He wrote numerous publications, including perhaps his most famous, The Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the calculus of variations. Its role in mathematics and physics.

#3755

Frank Ruskey

#39261

Overall Influence

Frank Ruskey is a combinatorialist and computer scientist, and professor at the University of Victoria. His research involves algorithms for exhaustively listing discrete structures, combinatorial Gray codes, Venn and Euler diagrams, combinatorics on words, and enumerative combinatorics. Frank Ruskey is the author of the Combinatorial Object Server , a website for information on and generation of combinatorial objects.

#3756

Jie-zhong Zou

#72146

Overall Influence

1947 - 2016 (69 years)

Jie-zhong Zou is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as homogeneous Markov chains, queuing theory and mathematical finance. He entered Changsha Railway Institute in 1980 and received his Ph.D. at the Changsha Railway Institute in 1987 under advisor Zhen-ting Hou. Since 1987 Jie-zhong Zou has been on the faculty at Changsha Railway Institute .

#3757

Christine O'Keefe

#64929

Overall Influence

Christine Margaret O'Keefe is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist whose research has included work in finite geometry, information security, and data privacy. She is a researcher at CSIRO, and was the lead author of a 2017 report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on best practices for de-identification of personally identifying data.

#3758

Serena Dipierro

#66183

Overall Influence

Serena Dipierro is an Italian mathematician whose research involves partial differential equations, the regularity of their solution, their phase transitions, nonlocal operators, and free boundary problems, with applications including population dynamics, quantum mechanics, crystallography, and mathematical finance. She is a professor in the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing at the University of Western Australia, where she heads the department of mathematics and statistics.

#3759

Hema Srinivasan

#77605

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Hema Srinivasan is a mathematician specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Originally from India, she is a professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri. Srinivasan was a National Science Talent Scholar in India beginning in 1975. She obtained her B.Sc. from Bombay University, where she won the Ghia Prize for mathematics in 1978, as well as an M.S. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1982. She completed her Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 1986. Her dissertation, supervised by David Buchsbaum, was Multiplicative Structures on Some Canonical Resolutions. After w...

#3760

Mourad Ismail

#34408

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Mourad E. H. Ismail is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials and special functions. Ismail received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University. He holds Masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Alberta. He worked at and visited several universities. Currently he holds a research professorship at the University of Central Florida and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.

#3761

Alfred Gray

#73481

Overall Influence

1939 - 1998 (59 years)

Alfred Gray was an American mathematician whose main research interests were in differential geometry. He also made contributions in the fields of complex variables and differential equations. Short biography Alfred Gray was born in Dallas, Texas to Alfred James Gray & Eloise Evans and studied mathematics at the University of Kansas. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964 and spent four years at University of California, Berkeley. From 1970–1998 he was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

#3762

Elias Koutsoupias

#42723

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Education Elias Koutsoupias is a Greek computer scientist working in algorithmic game theory. Koutsoupias received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and his doctorate in computer science in 1994 from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Christos Papadimitriou. He subsequently taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Athens, and is now a professor at the University of Oxford.

#3763

John Benedetto

#69903

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

John Joseph Benedetto is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park and is a leading researcher in wavelet analysis and Director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications. He was named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland in 1999 and has directed 63 Ph.D. students. The volume Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of John Benedetto, edited by Christopher Heil, describes his influence:

#3764

Donna Spiegelman

#77747

Overall Influence

Donna Spiegelman is a biostatistician and epidemiologist who works at the interface between the two fields as a methodologist, applying statistical solutions to address potential biases in epidemiologic studies.

#3765

Benedict Freedman

#50480

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Benedict Freedman was an American novelist and mathematician, the co-author of Mrs. Mike and a professor of mathematics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Life Upbringing Freedman was born to a Jewish family in New York City. His father, David, emigrated to America from Romania. He studied at Columbia University from ages 13 to 16, but dropped out without graduating after the death of his father. He took up his father's profession as a radio writer, and moved to the west coast where he worked for MGM Studios.

#3766

Amnon Pazy

#17980

Overall Influence

1936 - 2006 (70 years)

Amnon Pazy, אמנון פזי was an Israeli mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations , making important contributions to the PDE field and Semigroups. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was the chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. He also had a brief appearance as a background character in “Friends,” season 9.

#3767

Misha Kilmer

#56331

Overall Influence

Misha Elena Kilmer is an American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. She is William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. Starting July 1, 2021, she will serve as Deputy Director of ICERM, where she served on the Scientific Advisory Board.

#3768

Shelly Harvey

#69369

Overall Influence

Shelly Lynn Harvey is a professor of Mathematics at Rice University. Her research interests include knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory. Early life Harvey grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and graduated California Polytechnic State University in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2002 under the supervision of Tim Cochran. After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she returned to Rice University in 2005 as the first female tenure-track mathematician there.

#3769

Albert Fathi

#66367

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Albert Fathi is an Egyptian-French mathematician. He specializes in dynamical systems and is currently a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fathi attended the Collège des frères Lasalle in Cairo and grew up bilingual in French and Arabic. At age ten, he came as a political refugee to Paris and studied at the École normale supérieure in Saint-Cloud. He received in 1980 his PhD from the University of Paris 11 under Laurence Siebenmann with thesis Transformations et homéomorphismes préservant la mesure. From 1987 to 1992 he was a professor at the University of Florida. Since 1992 he has taught at the École normale supérieure de Lyon .

#3770

Adrian Constantin

Adrian Constantin

#41550

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Adrian Constantin is a Romanian-Austrian mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations. He is a professor at the University of Vienna and has made groundbreaking contributions to the mathematics of wave propagation. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11000 citations.

#3771

Ayşe Şahin

#37305

Overall Influence

Ayşe Arzu Şahin is a Turkish-American mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She was appointed the Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University in June 2020, and is a co-author of two textbooks on calculus and dynamical systems.

#3772

Chris Soteros

#54657

Overall Influence

Christine Elaine Soteros is a Canadian applied mathematician. She is professor and acting head of the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Saskatchewan, and site director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for their Saskatchewan site. Her research involves the folding and packing behavior of DNA, proteins, and other string-like biomolecules, and the knot theory of random space curves.

#3773

Anna Fino

#68943

Overall Influence

Anna Maria Fino is an Italian mathematician specializing in differential geometry, complex geometry, and Lie groups. She is a professor of mathematics in the Giuseppe Peano Department of Mathematics at the University of Turin, and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Complex Manifolds.

#3774

Rose Baker

#57732

Overall Influence

Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford. Education and career Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972. Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers.

#3775

Jean-Charles Faugère

#60058

Overall Influence

Jean-Charles Faugère is the head of the POLSYS project-team of the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 and Paris–Rocquencourt center of INRIA, in Paris. The team was formerly known as SPIRAL and SALSA.

#3776

Ted Hill

#51137

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Theodore Preston Hill is an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. He is a professor emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a researcher at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

#3777

Eva-Maria Feichtner

#68923

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Eva-Maria Elisabeth Feichtner is a German mathematician, the founder and director of the Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and their Applications at the University of Bremen, where she is professor of algebra and vice president of internationalization and diversity. Topics in her research have included tropical geometry, matroid polytopes, Chow rings, toric varieties, lattices and semilattices, and the wonderful compactification.

#3778

Zbigniew Ciesielski

Zbigniew Ciesielski

#53809

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Zbigniew Ciesielski was a Polish mathematician specializing in functional analysis and probability theory. He served as the President of the Polish Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1983. Education and career Ciesielski was born in Gdynia, Poland. He received in 1960 his doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with dissertation under the supervision of Władysław Orlicz.

#3779

Charles W. Curtis

Charles W. Curtis

#65063

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Charles Whittlesey Curtis is a mathematician and historian of mathematics, known for his work in finite group theory and representation theory. He is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon.

#3780

Howell Tong

#52617

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Howell Tong is a statistician who has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear time series analysis, semi-parametric statistics, non-parametric statistics, dimension reduction, model selection, likelihood-free statistics and other areas. In the words of Professor Peter Whittle : "The striking feature of Howell Tong's … is the continuing freshness, boldness and spirit of enquiry which inform them-indeed, proper qualities for an explorer. He stands as the recognised innovator and authority in his subject, while remaining disarmingly direct and enthusiastic." His work, in the words of Sir D...

#3781

Anne Lester Hudson

#69132

Overall Influence

Anne Lester Hudson is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. Her research specialty is the theory of topological semigroups; she is also known for her skill at mathematical problem-solving, and has coached students to success in both the International Mathematical Olympiad and the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. She is a professor emeritus at the Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus .

#3782

Patricia D. Shure

#66187

Overall Influence

Patricia D. Shure is an American mathematics educator. With Morton Brown and B. Alan Taylor, she is known for developing "Michigan calculus", a style of teaching calculus and combining cooperative real-world problem solving by the students with an instructional focus on conceptual understanding. She is a senior lecturer emerita of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where she taught from 1982 until her retirement in 2006.

#3783

David E. Keyes

#36736

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

David E. Keyes is a Senior Associate to the President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the Director of the Extreme Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology . He was the inaugural Dean of the Division of Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering at KAUST and remains an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and an affiliate of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. With backgrounds in engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science, he works at the ...

#3784

Lam Siu-por

#33755

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Lam Siu-por is a Hong Kong mathematician and the husband of Carrie Lam, who served as the fourth Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2022. Career Lam earned his doctorate in algebraic topology from the University of Cambridge in 1983, after writing his thesis under the direction of Frank Adams.

#3785

David Karoly

#28243

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

David John Karoly is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO. Education and academic career In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became interested in meteorology. In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Reading in Reading, England.

#3786

Nikolai Nikolayevich Vorobyov

#61609

Overall Influence

1925 - 1995 (70 years)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Vorobyov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, an expert in the field of abstract algebra, mathematical logic and probability theory, the founder of the Soviet school of game theory. He is an author of two textbooks, three monographs, a large number of mathematical articles and a number of popular science books. He supervised over 30 kandidat and D.Sc dissertations.

#3787

Maura Mast

#61327

Overall Influence

Maura B. Mast is an Irish-American mathematician, mathematics educator, and academic administrator, specializing in differential geometry and quantitative reasoning. With Ethan D. Bolker, she is the author of the textbook Common Sense Mathematics. Mast is dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, part of Fordham University.

#3788

Bálint Tóth

#73307

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Bálint Tόth is a Hungarian mathematician whose work concerns probability theory, stochastic process and probabilistic aspects of mathematical physics. He obtained PhD in 1988 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, worked as senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the HAS and as professor of mathematics at TU Budapest. He holds the Chair of Probability at the University of Bristol and is a research professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest.

#3789

Károly Bezdek

#61675

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Károly Bezdek is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician. He is a professor as well as a Canada Research Chair of mathematics and the director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Also he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. His main research interests are in geometry in particular, in combinatorial, computational, convex, and discrete geometry. He has authored 3 books and more than 130 research papers. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the e-journal Contributions to Discrete ...

#3790

Tristan Rivière

Tristan Rivière

#75245

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Tristan Rivière is a French mathematician, working on partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. Biography Rivière studied at the École Polytechnique and obtained his PhD in 1993 at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, under the supervision of Fabrice Bethuel, with a thesis on harmonic maps between manifolds. In 1992 he was appointed chargé de recherche at CNRS. In 1997 he received his habilitation at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay. From 1999 to 2000 he was a visiting associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences . Since 2003 he is full prof...

#3791

Nathalie Eisenbaum

#49954

Overall Influence

Nathalie Eisenbaum is a French mathematician, statistician, and probability theorist. She works as a director of research with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, associated with the laboratory for applied mathematics at Paris Descartes University and was previously a researcher in the Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation at Pierre and Marie Curie University.

#3792

Peter Armitage

#31322

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (100 years)

Peter Armitage CBE is a statistician specialising in medical statistics. Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War. He joined the weapons procurement agency, the Ministry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems with George Barnard.

#3793

Eugene M. Luks

#67704

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Eugene Michael Luks is an American mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer and information science at the University of Oregon. He is known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory.

#3794

Dagmar R. Henney

Dagmar R. Henney

#26623

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Dagmar Renate Kirchner Henney is a German-born American mathematician and former professor of calculus, finite mathematics, and measure and integration at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

#3795

Maurice Priestley

#43291

Overall Influence

1933 - 2013 (80 years)

Maurice Bertram Priestley was a professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.

#3796

Yusu Wang

#63755

Overall Influence

Yusu Wang is a Chinese computer scientist and mathematician who works as a professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego . Her research concerns computational geometry and computational topology, including results on discrete Laplace operators, curve simplification, and Fréchet distance.

#3797

Willard L. Miranker

#62012

Overall Influence

1932 - 2011 (79 years)

Willard L. Miranker was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to applied mathematics and numerical mathematics. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned Bachelor of Arts , Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Courant Institute at New York University, the latter on the thesis The Asymptotic Theory of Solutions of U + U = 0 advised by Joseph Keller. He then worked for the mathematics department at Bell Labs before joining IBM Research . After retirement from IBM, he joined the computer science faculty at Yale University as research faculty.

#3798

John Bailer

#60146

Overall Influence

John Bailer is an American statistician. He is University Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Miami University in Ohio, USA. He is also affiliated with the Departments of Media, Journalism and Film, Biology and Sociology and Gerontology at Miami. His work focuses on risk assessment in occupational health, and combining journalism to statistics. He created the podcast Stats+Stories, which “Addresses The Story Behind The Statistics And The Statistics Behind The Stories.” It is sponsored by the American Statistical Association and is hosted on National Public Radio podcasts and other podcast locations.

#3799

Philippe Biane

#62541

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Philippe Biane is a French mathematician known for his contributions in probability theory and group representation. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1995, together with Yuval Peres. External links Website at Université Paris-Est

#3800

Alexander Lubotzky

#66078

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Alexander Lubotzky is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University. He served as a member of the Knesset for The Third Way party between 1996 and 1999. In 2018 he won the Israel Prize for his accomplishments in mathematics and computer science.

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