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List of the most influential people in Mathematics,

#3851

Jennifer McLoud-Mann

#47822

Overall Influence

Jennifer McLoud-Mann is an American mathematician known for her 2015 discovery, with Casey Mann and undergraduate student David Von Derau, of the 15th and last class of convex pentagons to tile the plane. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Bothell, where she is currently the Vice Dean of Curriculum & Instruction of the School of STEM. Beyond tiling, her research interests include knot theory and combinatorics.

#3852

Margaret Greig

#40616

Overall Influence

1922 - 1999 (77 years)

Dorothy Margaret Greig née Hannah was an English mathematician who worked upon the theory of worsted spinning, especially the superdraft system invented by Geoffrey Ambler. During WW2, she worked on the analysis of strategic bombing. She married in 1948 and started lecturing at Leeds University in the same year. She subsequently lectured at Constantine Technical College and Durham University.

#3853

Stefanie Petermichl

Stefanie Petermichl

#71863

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Stefanie Petermichl is a German mathematical analyst who works as a professor at the University of Toulouse, in France. Topics of her research include harmonic analysis, several complex variables, stochastic control, and elliptic partial differential equations.

#3854

Margaret Bayer

#63556

Overall Influence

Margaret M. Bayer is an American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. Education Bayer earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Cornell University. Her dissertation, Facial Enumeration in Polytopes, Spheres and Other Complexes, was supervised by Louis Billera.

#3855

Clement John Tranter

#66176

Overall Influence

1909 - 1991 (82 years)

Clement John Tranter, was a British mathematics professor, researcher and the author of several key academic textbooks. Born in 1909 into a family of scientists, he served as a captain in the Second World War, before receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford and later becoming professor of mathematical physics at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham. His published works became popular in schools during the 1970s and were the standard textbooks used by A-level students for several years; they are still used in Far Eastern schools today.

#3856

Grace Alele-Williams

#10213

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Grace Alele-Williams was a Nigerian professor of mathematics education, who made history as the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate, and the first Nigerian female vice-chancellor at the University of Benin.

#3857

Peter Bühlmann

#60012

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Peter Lukas Bühlmann is a Swiss mathematician and statistician. Biography Bühlmann studied mathematics from 1985 at the ETH Zurich with Diplom in 1990 and doctorate in 1993. His thesis The Blockwise Bootstrap in Time Series and Empirical Processes was written under the supervision of Hans-Rudolf Künsch and Erwin Bolthausen. At the University of California, Berkeley, Bühlmann was from 1994 to 1995 a postdoctoral research fellow and from 1995 to 1997 Neyman Assistant Professor. At ETH Zurich he became assistant professor in 1997 and is a full professor from 2004 to the present. From 2013 to 201...

#3858

Michel Duflo

#47960

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Michel Duflo is a French mathematician who works in the representation theory of Lie groups. Life From 1962, Duflo studied at the École normale supérieure and received a doctorate under the supervision of Jacques Dixmier. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at the University of Paris VII at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and at the École normale supérieure.

#3859

Hee Oh

#68876

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Hee Oh is a South Korean mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She has made contributions to dynamics and its connections to number theory. She is a student of homogeneous dynamics and has worked extensively on counting and equidistribution for Apollonian circle packings, Sierpinski carpets and Schottky dances. She is currently the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.

#3860

Gabriella Tarantello

Gabriella Tarantello

#58060

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Gabriella Tarantello is an Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

#3861

Clemency Montelle

#63557

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Clemency Montelle is a New Zealand historian of mathematics known for her research on Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Canterbury, and a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute of the Victoria University of Wellington.

#3862

Gail S. Nelson

#73374

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Gail Susan Nelson is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Carleton College. Education and career Nelson did her undergraduate studies at the University of North Dakota. She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation concerned partial differential equations, and was supervised by Eugene Barry Fabes; it was Bounds for the Fundamental Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations. She joined the Carleton College faculty in the same year.

#3863

Theodore Slaman

Theodore Slaman

#43847

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Theodore Allen Slaman is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in recursion theory. Slaman and W. Hugh Woodin formulated the Bi-interpretability Conjecture for the Turing degrees, which conjectures that the partial order of the Turing degrees is logically equivalent to second-order arithmetic. They showed that the Bi-interpretability Conjecture is equivalent to there being no nontrivial automorphism of the Turing degrees. They also exhibited limits on the possible automorphisms of the Turing degrees by showing that any automorphism will be arithmetic...

#3864

Matilde Lalín

#70203

Overall Influence

Matilde Noemí Lalín is an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory and known for her work on L-functions, Mahler measure, and their connections. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université de Montréal.

#3865

Yvan Martel

#73081

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Yvan Martel is a French mathematician. Education and career Martel matriculated in 1989 at the École Polytechnique and graduated there in 1992 with an undergraduate degree and in 1993 with a Diplôme d'études approfondies in nonlinear analysis and numerical analysis. At Pierre and Marie Curie University he graduated in 1996 with Thèse de Doctorat under the supervision of Thierry Cazenave. At the Cergy-Pontoise University, Martel habilitated in 2000 with advisor Jean Ginibre.

#3866

Heike Fassbender

#71983

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Heike Fassbender is a German mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra. She is a professor in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the president for the 2017–2019 term of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik .

#3867

Alan Neville Gent

#53764

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Alan Neville Gent was a professor at the University of Akron. He was recognized during his lifetime as a world-leading authority on the topics of adhesion physics, crystalline and glassy polymers, and the fracturing of rubber.

#3868

Marc A. Suchard

#70831

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Marc Adam Suchard is an American statistician. He is Professor in the Departments of Biomathematics and of Human Genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and in the Department of Biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2012, and he received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2013.

#3869

Donald S. Passman

#82266

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Donald Steven Passman is an American mathematician, specializing in ring theory, group theory, and Lie algebra theory. Biography After attending the Bronx High School of Science, Passman matriculated at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he graduated with B.S. in 1960. He then became a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard University, where he graduated with M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1964. His doctoral dissertation was written under the supervision of Richard Brauer. Passman was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1966 at the University of California, Los Angeles and from 1966 to 1969 at Yale University.

#3870

Brian Alspach

#75234

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Brian Roger Alspach is a mathematician whose main research interest is in graph theory. Alspach has also studied the mathematics behind poker, and writes for Poker Digest and Canadian Poker Player magazines.

#3871

Floyd Williams

#70082

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Floyd Leroy Williams is a North American mathematician well known for his work in Lie theory and, most recently, mathematical physics. In addition to Lie theory, his research interests are in homological algebra and the mathematics of quantum mechanics. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Lincoln University of Missouri, and later his M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Williams was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1984, and has been professor emeritus since 2005. Williams' accomplishments earned him recognition by Math...

#3872

Leon Petrosyan

#67227

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Leon Petrosjan is a professor of Applied Mathematics and the Head of the Department of Mathematical Game theory and Statistical Decision Theory at the St. Petersburg University, Russia. Fields of research The research interests of Leon Petrosjan lie mostly in the fields of operations research, game theory, differential games, and control theory.

#3873

Constance van Eeden

#64099

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Constance van Eeden was a Dutch mathematical statistician who made "exceptional contributions to the development of statistical sciences in Canada". She was interested in nonparametric statistics including maximum likelihood estimation and robust statistics, and did foundational work on parameter spaces.

#3874

Eric Urban

#69534

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Eric Jean-Paul Urban is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University working in number theory and automorphic forms, particularly Iwasawa theory. Career Urban received his PhD in mathematics from Paris-Sud University in 1994 under the supervision of Jacques Tilouine. He is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University.

#3875

Ermelinda DeLaViña

#68609

Overall Influence

Ermelinda DeLaViña is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory. She is a professor in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences Department of the University of Houston–Downtown, where she is also Associate Dean of the College of Science and Technology.

#3876

Dawn Lott

#54030

Overall Influence

Dawn Alisha Lott is an applied mathematician at Delaware State University, where she is a professor in the department of physical and computational sciences and, since 2009, the director of the university's honors program.

#3877

Marvin Zelen

#49712

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Marvin Zelen was Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , and Lemuel Shattuck Research Professor of Statistical Science . During the 1980s, Zelen chaired HSPH's Department of Biostatistics. Among colleagues in the field of statistics, he was widely known as a leader who shaped the discipline of biostatistics. He "transformed clinical trial research into a statistically sophisticated branch of medical research."

#3878

Vanja Dukic

#73725

Overall Influence

Vanja Dukic is an expert in computational statistics and mathematical epidemiology who works as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research includes work on using internet search engine access patterns to track diseases, and on the effects of climate change on the spread of diseases.

#3879

Esther Seiden

#65078

Overall Influence

1908 - 2014 (106 years)

Esther Seiden was a mathematical statistician known for her research on the design of experiments and combinatorial design theory. In the study of finite geometry, she introduced the concept of the complement of an oval, and her work with Rita Zemach on orthogonal arrays of strength four was described as "the first significant progress" on the subject.

#3880

Karen L. Collins

#68950

Overall Influence

Karen Linda Collins is an American mathematician at Wesleyan University, where she is the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Professor of Integrative Sciences. The main topics in her research are combinatorics and graph theory.

#3881

William G. McCallum

William G. McCallum

#74309

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

William G. McCallum is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and was Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2013. Education and professional work He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, under the supervision of Barry Mazur. After spending two years at the University of California, Berkeley, and one at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts.

#3882

Dennis Shasha

#59478

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University. He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS. His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial design, network inference, and protein docking; work done with physicists, musicians, and professionals in finance on algorithms for time series; and work on database applications in untrusted environments. Other areas of interest include database tuning as well as tree and graph ...

#3883

Miodrag Petković

Miodrag Petković

#72272

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Miodrag S. Petković is a mathematician and computer scientist. In 1991 he became a full professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in Serbia. Biography Petković specializes in the theory of iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations and Interval mathematics. He wrote 270 academic papers and 28 books, including four monographs Iterative Methods for Simultaneous Inclusion of Polynomial Zeros , Complex Interval Arithmetic and Its Applications , Point Estimation of Root Finding Methods , and Multipoint Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations . ...

#3884

Enriqueta González Baz

#58334

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Enriqueta González Baz y de la Vega was a Mexican mathematician, a co-founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society, and the first woman to earn a degree in mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1944.

#3885

Ineke De Moortel

#66073

Overall Influence

Ineke De Moortel is a Belgian applied mathematician in Scotland, where she is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, director of research in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews, and president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Her research concerns the computational and mathematical modelling of solar physics, and particularly of the sun's corona.

#3886

Oluf Borbye Pedersen

#82472

Overall Influence

#3887

Anne Taormina

#58783

Overall Influence

Anne Taormina is a Belgian mathematical physicist whose research topics include string theory, conformal field theory, and monstrous moonshine. Beyond mathematical physics, she has also studied the icosahedral symmetry of virus capsids. She is Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University.

#3888

Lynne H. Walling

#68674

Overall Influence

Lynne Heather Walling was an American mathematician specializing in number theory, who became a reader in pure mathematics at the University of Bristol. She was known for her research in number theory. She died on 28 May 2021.

#3889

Edison Farah

#55951

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Edison Farah was a Brazilian mathematician, professor at the University of São Paulo. He was a founding member of the Mathematical Society of São Paulo, founded in 1945, and a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo.

#3890

Tian Gang

#76409

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Tian Gang is a Chinese mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Peking University and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is known for contributions to the mathematical fields of Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis.

#3891

Yuriko Renardy

#46163

Overall Influence

Yuriko Yamamuro Renardy is a Japanese–American expert in fluid dynamics who works as a Class Of 1950 Endowed Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. Education and career Renardy earned a bachelor's degree from the Australian National University in 1977, and a doctorate in 1981 from the University of Western Australia. Her dissertation, supervised by John J. Mahony, was entitled Water Waves above a Sill.

#3892

Eli Turkel

#68809

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Eli L. Turkel is an Israeli applied mathematician and currently an emeritus professor of applied mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. He is known for his contributions to numerical analysis of Partial Differential equations particularly in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics, acoustics, elasticity and image processing with applications to first Temple ostraca and recently deep earning for forward and inverse problems in PDEs,

#3893

Karen Marrongelle

#48719

Overall Influence

Karen Ann Marrongelle is an American mathematics educator specializing in collaborative learning in undergraduate-level mathematics education. Formerly the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State University, in 2018 she became the head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation.

#3894

Radha Charan Gupta

#48208

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Radha Charan Gupta is an Indian historian of mathematics. Early life of Radha Charan Gupta Gupta graduated from the University of Lucknow, where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his master's degree in 1957. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from Ranchi University in 1971. He did his dissertation work at Ranchi University with the historian of Indian mathematics T.A. Sarasvati Amma. Then he served as a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College . In 1958 he joined Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. In 1982 he was awarded a full professorship. He retired in 1995 as the Emeritus Professor of the history of mathematics and logic.

#3895

Victor Ivrii

#35655

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Victor Ivrii , is a Russian, Canadian mathematician who specializes in analysis, microlocal analysis, spectral theory and partial differential equations. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.

#3896

Anton Alekseev

#76847

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Anton Yurevich Alekseev is a Russian mathematician. Alekseev was a student of Ludvig Faddeev. Alekseev worked at the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg and at the beginning of the 1990s at Uppsala University. He is now a professor ordinarius at the University of Geneva.

#3897

Carol S. Woodward

#63843

Overall Influence

Carol San Soucie Woodward is an American computational mathematician who works in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for the development and application of numerical algorithms and software for large-scale simulations of complex physical phenomena".

#3898

Thomas E. Nichols

#75743

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Thomas E. Nichols is an American statistician. He is Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at the Nuffield Department of Population Health of the University of Oxford, where he is also affiliated with the Big Data Institute. Previously, he taught in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and at the University of Warwick; he also worked for GlaxoSmithKline as director of modeling and genetics at their Clinical Imaging Centre. He received the Wiley Young Investigator Award from the Organization for Huma...

#3899

Andranik Tangian

#16439

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Andranik Semovich Tangian ; born March 29, 1952ECON Biography Andranik Tangian was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on March 29, 1952. After the graduation from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University in 1974, he has worked at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, where he got his PhD in mathematics in 1979.

#3900

José Bonet Solves

José Bonet Solves

#73424

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

José Bonet Solves is a Spanish mathematician specialist in functional analysis and its applications to complex analysis and linear partial differential equations. Academic biography José Bonet graduated in Mathematics at the University of Valencia in 1977. In 1980 he defended his Ph.D. thesis in that University under the supervision of Professor Manuel Valdivia Ureña. Bonet was assistant in the University of Valencia from 1977 to 1983; between 1983 and 1987 he was associate professor, in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Since 1987, Bonet is full professor in the Applied Mathematics Department at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

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