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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3801

Andreas Brandstädt

#58794

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Andreas Brandstädt is a German mathematician and computer scientist. Life and work He graduated from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, with a Ph.D. in stochastics in 1976 and a habilitation in complexity theory in 1983. Since 1974 he worked there in the group of his academic teacher Gerd Wechsung.

#3802

Jean D. Gibbons

#76482

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Jean Dickinson Gibbons is an American statistician, an expert in nonparametric statistics and an author of books on statistics. She was the first chair of the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, and the Jean Dickinson Gibbons Graduate Program in Statistics at Virginia Tech is named for her.

#3803

Barbara L. Osofsky

#68341

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Barbara L. Osofsky is a retired professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerns abstract algebra. Osofsky's contributions to mathematics include her characterization of semisimple rings in terms of properties of cyclic modules. Osofsky also established a logical equivalence between the continuum hypothesis and statements about the global dimension of associative rings.

#3804

Frank-Olaf Schreyer

#69462

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Frank-Olaf Schreyer is a German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and algorithmic algebraic geometry. Schreyer received in 1983 his PhD from Brandeis University with thesis Syzgies of Curves with Special Pencils under the supervision of David Eisenbud. Schreyer was a professor at University of Bayreuth and is since 2002 a professor at Saarland University.

#3805

Dorothy Wallace

#52294

Overall Influence

Dorothy Irene Wallace Andreoli is an American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Education Wallace is a graduate of Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, Selberg's Trace Formula and Units in Higher Degree Number Fields, concerned number theory and was supervised by Audrey Terras.

#3806

Glyn Harman

#74019

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Glyn Harman is a British mathematician working in analytic number theory. One of his major interests is prime number theory. He is best known for results on gaps between primes and the greatest prime factor of p + a, as well as his lower bound for the number of Carmichael numbers up to X. His monograph Prime-detecting Sieves was published by Princeton University Press. He has also written a book Metric Number Theory . As well, he has contributed to the field of Diophantine approximation. Harman also proved that there are infinitely many primes whose sum of digits is prime. .

#3807

David Fowler

#64709

Overall Influence

1937 - 2004 (67 years)

David Herbert Fowler was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory . He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock.

#3808

Michael E. Sobel

#64643

Overall Influence

Michael Edward Sobel is an American statistician who is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. He is known for developing the Sobel test, a statistical test that is used to detect the presence of mediation between two variables by a third variable.

#3809

Ju-Lee Kim

#70482

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Ju-Lee Kim is a South Korean mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Her research involves the representation theory of p-adic groups. Education and career Kim completed her undergraduate studies at KAIST in 1991, and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997 supervised by Roger Howe; at Yale, she was also mentored by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.

#3810

Awi Federgruen

#23453

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Awi Federgruen is a Dutch/American mathematician and operations researcher and Charles E. Exley Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School and affiliate professor at the university's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

#3811

Jeffrey Adams

#69558

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Jeffrey David Adams is a mathematician at the University of Maryland who works on unitary representations of reductive Lie groups and who led the project Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations that calculated the characters of the representations of E8. The project to calculate the representations of E8 has been compared to the Human Genome Project in scope. Together with Dan Barbasch and David Vogan, he co-authored a monograph on a geometric approach to the Langlands classification and Arthur's conjectures in the real case.

#3812

Hans-günter Triebel

#81294

Overall Influence

#3813

Sara van de Geer

Sara van de Geer

#36314

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Sara Anna van de Geer is a Dutch statistician who is a professor in the department of mathematics at ETH Zurich. She is the daughter of psychologist John P. van de Geer. Education She earned a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1987 from Leiden University. Her dissertation, entitled Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes, was supervised by Willem Rutger van Zwet and Richard D. Gill.

#3814

Nessim Sibony

#70654

Overall Influence

1947 - 2021 (74 years)

Nessim Sibony was a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of several complex variables and complex dynamics in higher dimension. Since 1981, he was professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.

#3815

Ulrica Wilson

#64786

Overall Influence

Ulrica Wilson is a mathematician specializing in the theory of noncommutative rings and in the combinatorics of matrices. She is an associate professor at Morehouse College, associate director of diversity and outreach at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics , and a former vice president of the National Association of Mathematicians.

#3816

Peter Killworth

#39907

Overall Influence

1946 - 2008 (62 years)

Professor Peter D. Killworth was an English scientist known for his work on oceanography and on the study of social networks. A prolific writer, he published more than 160 scientific papers over the course of his career. He was also known for his work as a pioneering author of text interactive fiction games during the early 1980s.

#3817

Hitoshi Ishii

#77256

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Hitoshi Ishii ,a Japanese mathematician,who is specialized in partial differential equations. He first studied physics and then mathematics at Waseda University with a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1975 with dissertation "" . He became an assistant professor at Chūō University in 1976 and in 1989 a full professor. In 1996, he became a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University and in 2001, he became a professor at Waseda University. He studies nonlinear partial differential equations such as Hamilton–Jacobi equation, viscosity solutions of PDEs, optimal control theory, different...

#3818

Helen Moore

#55543

Overall Influence

Helen Elizabeth Moore is an American mathematician. Originally a differential geometer, she moved from academia to industry and from pure to applied mathematics, and in particular the applications of control theory to combination therapy in the health industry. She is affiliated with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

#3819

Nigel Boston

#80247

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Nigel Boston is a British-American mathematician, who has made notable contributions to algebraic number theory, group theory, and arithmetic geometry. He attended Harvard University, earning his doctorate in 1987, under supervision of Barry Mazur. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

#3820

Tien-Yien Li

#71063

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Tien-Yien Li was a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University. There, he spent 42 years and supervised 26 Ph.D. dissertations.

#3821

Tom H. Koornwinder

#78603

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Tom H. Koornwinder is a Dutch mathematician at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics who introduced Koornwinder polynomials. See also Askey–Bateman project

#3822

Shayle R. Searle

#71677

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Shayle Robert Searle PhD was a New Zealand mathematician who was professor emeritus of biological statistics at Cornell University. He was a leader in the field of linear and mixed models in statistics, and published widely on the topics of linear models, mixed models, and variance component estimation.

#3823

Jianhong Wu

#21062

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Jianhong Wu is a Canadian applied mathematician and the founding Director of the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University. He is the inaugural Director of the York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute .

#3824

Claudia Polini

#62284

Overall Influence

Claudia Polini is an Italian mathematician specializing in commutative algebra. She is the Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, and directs the Center of Mathematics at Notre Dame.

#3825

Tord Ganelius

#42146

Overall Influence

1925 - 2016 (91 years)

Tord Hjalmar Ganelius was a Swedish mathematician and professor emeritus. He served as Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was a board member of the Nobel Foundation from 1981 to 1989. His primary research interests were holomorphic functions and approximation theory.

#3826

Alar Toomre

#21661

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Alar Toomre is an American astronomer and mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies. He is a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.

#3827

S. A. Choudum

#44172

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Sheshayya A. Choudum was a professor and a former chair of the department of mathematics at IIT Madras. He has often worked in chromatic numbers, degree sequences, graph enumeration, and bivariegated graphs.

#3828

Mark Freidlin

#70388

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Mark Iosifovich Freidlin is a Russian-American probability theorist who works as a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is one of the namesakes of the Freidlin–Wentzell theory, which is an important part of the large deviations theory. Freidlin and Wentzell are the authors of the first monograph on the large deviations theory for stochastic processes . The Freidlin-Wentzell theory describes, in particular, the long-time effects caused by random perturbations. The latest edition of the book was published by Springer in 2012. It conta...

#3829

Maria Eulália Vares

#51079

Overall Influence

Maria Eulália Vares is a Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist who is known for her expertise in stochastic processes and large deviations theory. She is a professor of statistics in the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, from 2006 to 2009 was the editor-in-chief of the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications, publisher by Elsevier for the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, and from 2015 to 2017 was the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Probability, published by the Institute of Mathematical Stati...

#3830

Eugene Seneta

#69178

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Eugene Seneta is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, known for his work in probability and non-negative matrices, applications and history. He is known for the variance gamma model in financial mathematics . He was Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney from 1979 until retirement, and an Elected Fellow since 1985 of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2007 Seneta was awarded the Hannan Medal in Statistical Science by the Australian Academy of Science, for his seminal work in probability and statistics; for his...

#3831

Anselm Kiefer

#1472

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horrors of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.

#3832

Louis Norberg Howard

#60571

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Louis Norberg Howard was an American mathematician who was professor emeritus of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He contributed to a broad range of subjects, including hydrodynamic stability and geophysical flows. He made a number of key advances in our understanding of turbulent convection, flows in Hele-Shaw cells, salt-finger zones, rotating flows, and reaction–diffusion equations.

#3833

Anna Erschler

#68578

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Anna Gennadievna Erschler, née Dyubina, , is a Russian mathematician, working in France. She specializes in geometric group theory and probability theory, in particular, random walks on groups. Education and career Beginning in 1994 Erschler studied mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University receiving there her M.Sc. in 1999 and then studied in the academic year 1999–2000 at Tel Aviv University. In 2001 she received her Ph.D. from Saint Petersburg State University under the direction of Anatoly Vershik, with a thesis titled Geometric und probabilistic properties of wreath products. In O...

#3834

Bram van Leer

#56462

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Bram van Leer is Arthur B. Modine Emeritus Professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. He specializes in Computational fluid dynamics , fluid dynamics, and numerical analysis. His most influential work lies in CFD, a field he helped modernize from 1970 onwards. An appraisal of his early work has been given by C. Hirsch

#3835

Ellen Kirkman

#56460

Overall Influence

Ellen Elizabeth Kirkman is professor of mathematics at Wake Forest University. Her research interests include noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and homological algebra. Education She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.A. in Statistics from Michigan State University in 1975. Her doctoral dissertation, On the Characterization of Inertial Coefficient Rings, was supervised by Edward C. Ingraham.

#3836

David Shanno

#70924

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

David F. Shanno was an American mathematician, who specialized in mathematical optimization and operations research. He was professor emeritus at Rutgers University . Shanno obtained his B.Sc. in mathematics from Yale University in 1959, his M.Sc. in mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1967. He held positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Arizona and the University of California, Davis before becoming professor at Rutgers University.

#3837

Franz Alt

#27876

Overall Influence

1910 - 2011 (101 years)

Franz Leopold Alt was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days. He was best known as one of the founders of the Association for Computing Machinery, and served as its president from 1950 to 1952.

#3838

Deborah Frank Lockhart

#64163

Overall Influence

Deborah Frank Lockhart is a mathematician known for her work with the National Science Foundation. Career Lockhart graduated in 1965 from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her BS in mathematics from New York University, and went on to receive her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the area of continuum mechanics.

#3839

Viveka Erlandsson

#69504

Overall Influence

Viveka Erlandsson is a Swedish mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and known in particular for extending the work of Maryam Mirzakhani on counting geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds. She is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.

#3840

Moni Naor

#81830

Overall Influence

#3841

John J. Garstka

#34774

Overall Influence

John Joseph Garstka is the acting CISO for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense Biography Garstka is a recognized international speaker and has delivered the Network Centric Warfare message to military and commercial audiences worldwide. In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

#3842

Guofang Wei

#75459

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Guofang Wei is a mathematician in the field of differential geometry. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Education Wei earned a doctorate in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989, under the supervision of Detlef Gromoll. Her dissertation produced fundamental new examples of manifolds with positive Ricci curvature and was published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. These examples were later expanded upon by Burkard Wilking.

#3843

Matti Jutila

#72624

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Matti Ilmari Jutila is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Turku. He researches in the field of analytic number theory. Education and career Jutila completed a doctorate at the University of Turku in 1970, with a dissertation related to Linnik's constant supervised by .

#3844

Kaisa Miettinen

#41037

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Kaisa Miettinen is a Finnish mathematician and the former vice rector of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. She is a professor of industrial optimization with the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In addition, she heads the Multiobjective Optimization Group .

#3845

Norman Gowar

#20105

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Professor Norman William Gowar is an academic from the United Kingdom who served as the Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, from 1990 to 2000. Prior to that he had served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Open University.

#3846

Věra Trnková

#71781

Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Věra Šedivá-Trnková was a Czech mathematician known for her work in topology and in category theory. Early life and education Trnková was born on March 16, 1934, in Berehove, then in Czechoslovakia and now in Ukraine; her father was a forester. By the time she was in high school, her family lived in Prague, and she went to Charles University for study in mathematics. There, she worked with Miroslav Katětov on general topology, earning a master's degree in 1957 with the thesis Collectionwise normal and strongly paracompact spaces on strengthened definitions for normal spaces.

#3847

Erwin Bolthausen

Erwin Bolthausen

#69670

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Erwin Bolthausen is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in probability theory, statistics, and stochastic models in mathematical physics. Education and career Bolthausen received his doctorate in mathematics under Beno Eckmann in 1973 from ETH Zurich. Bolthausen's thesis was entitled Einfache Isomorphietypen in lokalisierten Kategorien und einfache Homotopietypen von Polyeder . In 1978 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz and was then an associate professor of mathematics at the Goethe University Frankfurt for the academic year 1978–1979. From 1979 to 1990 he was a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

#3848

Elizabeth Meckes

#74719

Overall Influence

1980 - 2020 (40 years)

Elizabeth Samantha Meckes was an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Her research included work on Stein's method for bounding the distance between probability distributions and on random matrices. She was a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at Case Western Reserve University. She died in December 2020 after a brief battle with cancer.

#3849

Wilfried Imrich

#78189

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Wilfried Imrich is an Austrian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. He is known for his work on graph products, and authored the books Product Graphs: Structure and Recognition , Topics in graph theory: Graphs and their Cartesian Products , and Handbook of Product Graphs .

#3850

Ellina Grigorieva

#68185

Overall Influence

Ellina Grigorieva is a Russian mathematician and mathematics educator known for her books on mathematical problem solving. She is a professor in the Texas Woman's University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and an expert on control theory and its applications to the spread of disease.

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